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How Shakira's 'Hips' shook the music industry
Call it the "Hips Don't Lie" effect. Last year, Epic Records held a contest offering fans a chance to help create a video for Colombian pop diva Shakira's yodel-tastic single of the same name featuring Wyclef Jean. Label executives' expectations were low — they were spending only $5,000 to create and promote a quickie clip, after all. (06/04) ReadYou may also like
Can bad TV save a bad music career?
Times Colonist | 23/06/08 
Janet Jackson will soon be roaming the backstreets and church choirs of America on the hunt for "the next big thing" in pop. Naturally, it's all for ... More
Labels eye variable pricing for digital sales
Reuters | 07/06/08
Arguably the No. 1 item on record labels' to-do list for the year is, "Establish variable pricing for digital downloads."
As luck would have it, ... More
A new harmony for music labels, TV
Los Angeles Times | 07/06/08
It's the sobering reality of today's music business -- a record company executive can sign a new act and then tell her, "Keep your day job."
That ... More
Music execs stuck in old time rock'n'roll
The Guardian | 11/05/08
It is May 9 1996, and you are a Senior Executive at a Very Big Record Label, in charge of Future Developments. This "internet" thing is being talked ... More
How much should music cost?
Los Angeles Times | 06/05/08
hree interesting developments today on the issue of music pricing and price elasticity, a subject close to my heart. While one label starts flirting with ... More
Bands are getting into bed with consumer brands
Timesonline | 04/05/08
Gabriel Hubert, horn player with Damon Albarn's favourite street-jazz collective, the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, speaks with the unashamed zeal of a convert: ... More
Music can be path to language and math
AP Google | 01/05/08 
The challenge was to come up with an idea that can transform public education, particularly in poor communities. The winner: an educator with a passion ... Read
No One Likes The Music Labels. Who Cares?
Silicon Alley Insiders | 21/04/08
Newsflash, courtesy of PR agency Edelman: Young people don't feel warmly about the music industry, presumably because they are harshing their mellow and ... Read
Music biz lawyers wary of labels' new grab
Reuters | 29/12/07
Like it or not, major record companies are expected to continue drafting their artist contracts so that labels share a piece of most -- if not all -- of ... Read
Further lack of harmony between EMI and top acts
Timesonline | 19/12/07
The relationship between EMI and some of its leading artists soured further yesterday as the record label suggested Robbie Williams's potential departure ... Read
David Byrne's Survival Strategies for Emerging Artists — and Megastars
Wired News | 19/12/07
I used to own a record label. That label, Luaka Bop, still exists, though I'm no longer involved in running it. My last record came out through Nonesuch, ... Read
EMI to exit IFPI
Variety | 10/01/08
In a move designed to get major music trade organizations to reorganize, EMI has made the first step to exit the British trade group IFPI. Top operating ... Read
Why (And How) I Just Canceled All My Music Subscriptions
Wired News | 28/12/07
Now that three of the four major labels have decided to sell music without DRM, I've finally decided to drop it too. I've subscribed to Napster, Rhapsody, ... Read
Bo Diddley dead at age 79, spokesman says
Orlando Sentinel | 02/06/08
Bo Diddley, a founding father of rock 'n' roll whose distinctive "shave and a haircut, two bits" rhythm and innovative guitar effects inspired legions ... More
Now hear this: surround sound for MP3
Greater Paramus News | 02/01/08
In the small San Diego County offices of French multimedia giant Thomson, employees crank up Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon," a recording laden ... Read
Digital sales boost Universal Music
The Guardian | 25/07/07
Universal, the world's biggest music group, today flagged up strong UK sales and rapid growth in downloads despite a tough market for recorded music. ... Read
Why The iPhone Is Not Big News For The Music Industry
Hypebot | 27/06/07
Anticipation of the iPhone launch has grown to a feverish pitch including glowing reviews from influentialIphone Wall Street Journal tech writer William ... Read
Did Paris Fake Her Vocals?
Radaronline | 15/09/06
Paris Hilton's debut album was not exactly a triumph of artistic expression. But how much less impressive would Paris be if the thin, hyper-processed ... Read
P2P effect on legal music sales 'not statistically distinguishable from zero'
Ars Technica | 13/02/07
A new study in the Journal of Political Economy by Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Koleman Strumpf has found that illegal music downloads have had no noticeable ... Read
YouTube Music Video Targeted by Catholic League Hotter Than Ever Since Its Resurrection
PRnewswire | 02/02/07
Ongoing efforts by the Political
Correctness Police to ban the new hot-button music video from critically
acclaimed "dirty folk" comic JESSICA DELFINO ... Read
EC to probe Universal-BMG Music merger
Hollywood Reporter | 12/12/06
The European Commission confirmed Friday that it will open an in-depth investigation into Universal Music Group's planned takeover of BMG Music Publishing. ... Read
Baidu partners up for music service
Variety Asia | 30/06/08
Faced with mounting pressure from international music orgs over alleged piracy, China's top web search site Baidu has announced a partnership with three ... More
All That Jazz doing fine despite doom in music industry
Steamboat Pilot & Today | 30/06/08
For the past 10 years, music magazines have been flooded with articles about the death of the record store.
Joe Kboudi — who opened Wednesday with twice ... More
Music beneath my feet
The Financial Express | 23/06/08
Ever wondered what this underground music is, which is spreading like wildfire? Does it constitute Bollywood or is it just independent artists that we ... More
Warner Tells Kid Rock To Denounce File Sharing; He Denounces Warner Instead
Techdirt | 19/06/08
While Warner Music had claimed that it was getting away from attacking fans who wanted to download, it appears that it still has a long way to go. Atlantic ... More
Music, sex and murder
Jamaica Gleaner | 16/06/08
Like businesses, countries have their competitive advantages, things for which they have a particular propensity. And what Jamaica excels at, or at least ... More
Some retailers give vinyl records a spin
GoErie.com | 16/06/08
It was a fortuitous typo for the Fred Meyer retail chain.
This spring, an employee intending to order a special CD-DVD edition of R.E.M.'s latest release ... More
'Nashville Star' lassos NBC
The Arizona Republic | 09/06/08
John Rich, half of the country music sensation Big & Rich, achieved stardom the old-fashioned way: He earned it.
The Texas native, with pal Kenny Alphin, ... More
Labels eye variable pricing for digital sales
Reuters | 07/06/08
Arguably the No. 1 item on record labels' to-do list for the year is, "Establish variable pricing for digital downloads."
As luck would have it, ... More
A new harmony for music labels, TV
Los Angeles Times | 07/06/08
It's the sobering reality of today's music business -- a record company executive can sign a new act and then tell her, "Keep your day job."
That ... More
Idol Dominates Charts: Is This The Day The Music Died?
Hypebot | 30/05/08
No offense to Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper or Don McLean, but I think we may be witnessing the actual day the music died and this time I can even name the ... More
The music biz's digital flops - a short history
The Register | 26/05/08
Since the record industry first noticed that some of the kids were using the internet in the mid-90s, it's flopped from one puddle to the next. Despite ... More
Rifflet, Like Twitter For Music
Gizmodo | 18/05/08
I like to believe that all of us have rock star alter egos. For most of us, these inner rock beasts sleep latently, awaiting the proper heartbreak or drug ... More
The Cistercian monks being groomed for music stardom
Timesonline | 18/05/08
Within minutes of arriving at the monastery in the Vienna Forest, I see a clutch of men wearing lederhosen, while an oompah band tunes up for the May Day ... More
Music City can turn a citified girl into a country-hummin' gal
Kansascity.com | 18/05/08
The last time I listened to country music was the summer after my senior year of high school when I worked in a sweatshop in Tyrone, Pa., sewing seams ... More
IFPI Advises Kids to Use LimeWire and Kazaa
TorrentFreak | 11/05/08
The campaign's leaflet (pdf) is distributed through schools and colleges, libraries, record stores, teaching portals and websites in 21 countries. It ... More
Music execs stuck in old time rock'n'roll
The Guardian | 11/05/08
It is May 9 1996, and you are a Senior Executive at a Very Big Record Label, in charge of Future Developments. This "internet" thing is being talked ... More
Collectors record Jamaica's music history
Jamaica Gleaner | 11/05/08
Some persons capture special moments on film, others in personal memories, but for some a good record can take them back into that golden moment. Record ... More
Bands are getting into bed with consumer brands
Timesonline | 04/05/08
Gabriel Hubert, horn player with Damon Albarn's favourite street-jazz collective, the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, speaks with the unashamed zeal of a convert: ... More
The next big Ting?
Boston.com | 16/06/08
The British dance-pop duo the Ting Tings are having the kind of year most musicians dream about: hit singles in the UK, a buzzed-about showcase at South ... More
Music City can turn a citified girl into a country-hummin' gal
Kansascity.com | 18/05/08
The last time I listened to country music was the summer after my senior year of high school when I worked in a sweatshop in Tyrone, Pa., sewing seams ... More
A Scientific Attempt To Create Most Annoying Song Ever
Wired News | 18/04/08
Russian-American artists Vitaly Komar and Alex Melamid took an online poll in the '90s to find out which musical elements people found the most irritating. ... Read
Behind the music: The No 1 template
The Guardian | 15/04/08
This week's No 1 single is, yet again, Estelle's American Boy. It's one of those infectious tunes that seemed destined to be the soundtrack of the summer ... Read
Music File Compressed 1,000 Times Smaller than MP3
Newswise | 03/04/08
Researchers at the University of Rochester have digitally reproduced music in a file nearly 1,000 times smaller than a regular MP3 file.
The music, ... Read
Disney site music to parents' ears?
The Indianapolis Star | 22/05/07
Looking to profit directly from the growing market for music downloads, Disney has launched an online store for kid-focused singles, albums and music videos. ... Read
Habbo, Music and the Record Labels
Digital Media Wire | 07/11/07
It is not just file-sharing kids and single moms that the record labels have to worry about if they continue their head-in-the-sand approach to the digital ... Read
Pop Band Fratellis Launch Memory Stick Chart Bid
Digital-Lifestyles | 20/03/07
With a keen eye for drumming up a handy bit of pre-release publicity, Scottish band The Fratellis will be releasing their new single tomorrow on a USB ... Read
'Dont download this song', now the website
Dontdownloadthissong.com | 25/08/06
"Weird Al" Yankovic is soon to release a new album titled "Straight Outta Lynwood" and the first single is titled "Don't Download This Song." In ... Read
S.F. Opera patron donates $35 million
San Francisco Gate | 04/10/06
At a time when the San Francisco Opera is looking to shore up its finances, the company has received $35 million from longtime patron and supporter Jeannik ... Read
Wrong Arcade Fire Song Offered on iTunes
Spin | 29/12/06
The Arcade Fire's touted new single, "Intervention," was supposed to be made available on iTunes tomorrow (Dec. 28), but due to a flub up at the band's ... Read
Toshiba preps 16GB flash for music players, phones
Electronista | 20/04/07
Toshiba this morning crystallized details of new, 16GB flash memory that could dramatically alter the nature of storage. A shrink to 56-nanometer lets ... Read
Mika Scores Unprecedented String of UK #1s
Businesswire | 13/02/07
Casablanca/Universal Republic recording artist, Mika, is making history in the UK only weeks before his acclaimed new album Life In Cartoon Motion debuts ... Read
The Single Returns To Haunt Music Biz
Showbuzz | 11/05/07
That's the nightmare currently facing the music industry. Almost a decade after virtually eliminating 45s and cassette singles, thereby forcing fans to ... Read
Downloads Double UK Singles Sales
Billboard | 02/01/07
Escalating music download sales have helped double the size of the U.K. singles market over the past three years, according to figures published by The ... Read
Band Wants Paris Hilton To 'Go Away'
CMJ | 04/05/07
Citizens For A Better America, a band that was created for the sole purpose to ridicule Paris Hilton, has hit it big with their first single "Go Away ... Read
Day the (theme) music died?
Winnipeg Sun | 07/06/08
The CBC is set to launch a song-writing contest open to all Canadians in hopes of finding a new theme song for Hockey Night In Canada, the head of CBC ... More
Let's face the music
The Guardian | 28/05/08
It's worth entering the Eurovision song contest, and indeed worth losing, just to hear Terry Wogan attempt to have a huff about partiality on his way ... More
A million-dollar reason to be a rock star in China
Xinhuanet | 25/12/07
Chinese pop and rock singers, bands and composers will have a chance to compete with peers from other Asian countries for awards worth more than 1 million ... Read
Nine Inch Nails' Open Source Remix Album Available as Free Torrent
Wired News | 11/09/07
Over the past few months, "multiple judges" at 9inchnails.com listened to over 200 submissions to the Nine Inch Nails open source remix contest and the ... Read
BBC asks Morrissey to write Britain's Eurovision entry
Daily Mail | 09/01/07
Morrissey is in talks with the BBC over plans to write a song for the Eurovision Song Contest. The former Smiths frontman, pictured, who has hits such ... Read
Nationalists, Russia Find Ukraine's Eurovision Song Quite a Drag
DW World | 03/04/07
The Eurovision Song Contest will soon be upon us once again, giving fans and detractors alike another opportunity to watch the annual back scratching -- ... Read
You've Got Thirty Seconds With Michael...
Rolling Stone | 06/03/07
Michael Jackson apparently flew to Japan over the weekend in order to de-jetlag in time for the super special party he's hosting in Tokyo this week. On ... Read
Eurovision Win Boosts Serbia Mood After Tough Year
Billboard | 15/05/07
The victory of Marija Serifovic at the 2007 Eurovision song contest caused an outpouring of national pride in Serbia, a country more used to rebuffs from ... Read
Sour notes emerge from Eurovision
ABC.net | 15/05/07
Britons believe the reason their entrant in this year's Eurovision song contest placed second last comes down to politics, not a disinterest in dancing ... Read
The Bald and the Beautifull
Break | 20/03/07
The video submissions are in and we've picked the three top videos for our contest. Check out the submitted videos and see whose shaved noggin was worthy ... Read
Bob Dylan Imitation Contest
Seattle Post Intelligencer | 10/10/06
Readers sent us videos of their best one-minute Dylan imitation and now you need to judge which one is the best. Vote for your favorite imitation! The ... Read