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06 January
Same Fish, Smaller Pond: UMG Still the Biggest Label...
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Recorded music got smaller in 2008, but the rankings remained largely the same. By the end, Universal Music Group retained a 31.52 percent market share among the majors, according to Nielsen Soundscan. That represents a very mild drop...
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06 January
Apple brings in variable pricing on iTunes
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Apple and the music industry have settled their biggest differences, with the iPod maker agreeing to allow variable pricing on its iTunes digital music store and the largest record labels dropping restrictions which prevented tracks fro...
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04 January
Ingram exec rides books' digital wave
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In an otherwise gloomy holiday sales season, electronic book readers from Amazon.com and Sony defied the tough economic odds to emerge as one of this year's rare must-haves. Neither company disclosed sales figures, but e-book readers ha...
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04 January
Digital Media Revenues Exceed Filmed Entertainment
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Global revenues from digital media will exceed revenue generated by filmed entertainment - movie theaters and home video combined - for the first time in 2008, according to new research from Strategy Analytics. The report, "Global Media...
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02 January
Online sales fall 3% during holiday season
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NEW YORK (AP) — Online retail sales, which have regularly boasted double-digit growth, fell 3% during the 2008 holiday shopping season and likely 4% in the fourth quarter, according to comScore Inc., as the short post-Thanksgiving shopp...
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02 January
Soundscan: Album Sales Down 14 Percent in '08...
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Album sales dropped a gaping 14 percent in 2008, according to figures shared by Nielsen Soundscan. Specifically, physical and digital albums collectively moved to 428.4 million units in the United States, from 500.5 million in 2007. T...
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02 January
In Tough Times, Tackle Anxiety First
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With the economy in deep trouble, all sorts of people — consultants and authors among them — are offering all sorts of advice. Most of it is solid, if obvious: Find a good law firm, protect your credit, bill early and often, and perhaps...
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02 January
Planning for a Happier New Year
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Given the recession, stock market meltdown and declining corporate revenue (and earnings) just about everywhere, 2008 was a year most small-business owners would like to forget.
To make 2009 far better — and much more pro...
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31 December
2008: The Year In Review
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Survived 2008 okay? The year proved difficult for an already-disrupted industry, though "accelerated transition" could be the best description of current forces at work. As in previous years, consumers continued their shift towards di...
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30 December
Twitter - The New Focus Group?
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So, seems like Twitter may be the new low-cost focus group.
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30 December
Amazon Launches New Author Pages
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Amazon now offers an experimental selling tool, creating 2,500 customized selling pages for authors in the site's new "Author Stores." The company hopes to make the gigantic store home to webpages for all authors.
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30 December
Music Industry Looks to Internet for Revival, May May Partner with Hulu
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A generation after the launch of MTV, major record labels are hoping to revive the music video business online by creating a single digital destination for their artists’ output.
Plans under discussion include: a partners...
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30 December
2008 Is Banner Year for Concerts
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A generation after the launch of MTV, major record labels are hoping to revive the music video business online by creating a single digital destination for their artists’ output.
The stock market is in the tank, the plant...
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30 December
Broadway’s Marketing Turns Interactive
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THE bright lights of Broadway draw millions of people to New York’s theater district every year, but having a celebrity’s name on a marquee does not always guarantee a full house. So to fill more seats, theater producers are turning to ...
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19 December
Digital music gains, but CD losses a pain
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Consumers are increasingly willing to pay for songs they acquire over the Internet, but declining interest in CDs is dragging down overall music consumption among Internet users.
During the third quarter, there was an inc...
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19 December
Universal Music: YouTube Adding Tens of Millions In Revenue...
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Universal Music Group has the most heavily-watched channel on YouTube, and according to one executive, that is contributing "tens of millions of dollars" to the bottom line. "YouTube is not like radio, where it's just promotional," Uni...
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18 December
Dennis Jernigan Live Online TV From His Living Room
D-Squared client, Dennis Jernigan, will be sharing his heart in Christmas Eve worship directly from his living room on December 24th! Join him online by going to www.mogulus.com/dennisjernigantv. The FREE OF CHAR...
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18 December
Talk to Me. Get Free Stuff!
I need to hear from you. If you’ve ever attended the Gospel Music Week Indie Impact sessions, I need to hear from you. And if you talk to me, I’ll send you free stuff.
For the past two years, it has been my ...
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17 December
Churches Welcome Quirky Approaches to Spread Their Message
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By STUART ELLIOTT
THIS time of year, advertising is filled with religious imagery. But typically, little of it is actually sponsored by religious organizations. That is starting to change as churches seek to take ad...
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17 December
EMI wades into music retail with Web store
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EMI Music, the music label representing such acts as Cold Play and the Beatles, is expected on Wednesday to launch a test version of its own music store, EMI.com.
While the idea behind the site is still a bit vague, the s...
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