MySpace officially announced its acquisition of music recommendation service iLike today, but said the platform and popular Facebook application will be expanded beyond music to other areas of the site, ...

[Forbes.com] Jay-Z pulled in an estimated $35 million over the past 12 months, topping our annual list of Hip-Hop Cash Kings. It's far from the $82 million he made last ...

The Regional Court of Hamburg has ruled in favor of German collecting society GEMA, which had requested that the court issue an order prohibiting file-hosting service rapidshare.com from making around ...

> In 2008, 1.88 million vinyl albums were purchased, more than in any other year since Nielsen SoundScan began tracking LP sales in 1991. The previous record was in 2000, ...

from: Explanations of why certain speeds were chosen for certain types of phonograph recordings... The original gramophones used a steel sewing needle for a stylus. The stylus determined the size ...

FT interview with Public Enemy: Chuck reveals that the band turned down a million-dollar advance when they decided not to re-sign with Def Jam. "In order for me to build ...

EU regulators ordered 24 music societies across Europe to modify or ditch their agreements that bar music services from selling or broadcasting music across borders, forcing those services to set ...

Is Torture by Music a "Performance in Public"? Certain collectives are quick to collect money from those in nursing homes, hospitals, prisons etc. on the basis that these are "public" ...

Prices Jan 2009: http://Boomkat.com 99 p = $1.43 http://bleep.com €1.35 = $1.87 http://beatport.com €1.99 = $2.75 Was on May 2008 (Dollar having a "good day" at 1.55): http://Boomkat.com 99 p ...

The Regional Court of Hamburg has ruled in favor of German collecting society GEMA, which had requested that the court issue an order prohibiting file-hosting service rapidshare.com from making around ...

EU regulators ordered 24 music societies across Europe to modify or ditch their agreements that bar music services from selling or broadcasting music across borders, forcing those services to set ...

Prices Jan 2009: http://Boomkat.com 99 p = $1.43 http://bleep.com €1.35 = $1.87 http://beatport.com €1.99 = $2.75 Was on May 2008 (Dollar having a "good day" at 1.55): http://Boomkat.com 99 p ...

This is a model that I suggested and supported many years ago. There are many hurdles. Qtrax is having a go at it now. Its a windows/(mac-coming march 18th) P2P ...

At the same time, Last.fm is launching an unprecedented "Artist Royalty" arrangement, whereby those artists not signed with a label who choose to upload their music to Last.fm will receive ...

Great article in the guardian. The key selectors have all switched to CD. The classic 7" vinyl market was primarily for US/European/Japanese collectors. The locals don't buy vinyl. Many tracks ...

The new law on data retention requires telecommunication companies to store all telephone and Internet connection information for six months starting on 1 January, and to make this data available ...

Nice one Jay.

David Byrne, as intelligent as he ever was: Before recording technology existed, you could not separate music from its social context. Epic songs and ballads, troubadours, courtly entertainments, church music, ...

Matador and other labels include coupons in record packaging that can be used to download MP3 versions of the songs. Matador's Patrick Amory called the coupon program "hugely popular." Numark ...

Since 2003, at least 80 records stores have closed in Manhattan and Brooklyn. New York Times

Great article in the guardian. The key selectors have all switched to CD. The classic 7" vinyl market was primarily for US/European/Japanese collectors. The locals don't buy vinyl. Many tracks ...

Snocap, the music-licensing company best known for being the follow-up act of Napster founder Shawn Fanning, has cut its staff by 60 percent, a spokeswoman for the company said Thursday ...

Gesellschaft für musikalische Aufführungs- und mechanische Vervielfältigungsrechte (Society for musical performing and mechanical reproduction rights) http://www.gema.de/ This is the German [[Royalty Organization|RoyaltyOrganizations]], collecting performance royalties for radio,TV, bar, club and ...

iTUNES: Downloads accounted for a substantially increased percentage of overall sales via iTunes and the services chasing it, but more and more executives have come to believe that, rather than ...

According to a recent survey conducted on behalf of Napster, music lovers are struggling to fill their digital music players. It found that most were only just over half filled, ...

Distribution is a pain, and probably the main bottleneck in independant music. Sorry distributors, but we look forward to when its all electronic distribution. But its not their fault. The ...

links i haven't gotten around to putting into the database: Abstract Aeon Ajax Anomalous Aquarius ATRecordings Baked Goods Bent Crayon Bottlenekk BVHAAST Carbondisks Cargo Germany Caroline CDeMUSIC CheapThrills ChthonicStreams Chunky ...

Thinking of starting a label ? Want to put out lots of records this year, really make your mark ? Hey, maybe its YOU that's killing the scene, man. There's ...