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Date: 31 August 2010 15:19:06 GMT+01:00

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The Music Industry Report

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• Music industry quakes at iPod's decline
• BMG Has $500 Million To Spend
• VIDEO: DigiMusicBids.com Gives New Power To Indie Musicians
• Young Money CEO Explains Drake's "Thank Me Later" Not Selling A Milli Its First-Week
• Scott Weiland: 'Rock & Roll Bands Perform Live'
• Dance promoter Insomniac hits city with seven-figure lawsuit over canceled Tiesto concert
• 'Bed Intruder' songster turning fame into a future
• Google and Arcade Fire Team for HTML5 'Experience'
• Music and Brands
• 21 Korean music industry experts rank top idols

Music industry quakes at iPod's decline Posted: 31 Aug 2010 06:30 AM PDT techeye Apple and the music industry are all in a flutter about the slowing of iPod sales. While the two were at odds for a long time over Steve Jobs telling them how much to sell music for, they are both a bit concerned that iPod sales are starting to slow taking digital sales of music with them. Tomorrow's Apple press conference has a logo of an acoustic guitar with a sound hole in the shape of the Apple logo and September is the traditional time to do something new with the…. VIEW ARTICLE SOURCE

BMG Has $500 Million To Spend Posted: 31 Aug 2010 05:40 AM PDT billboard.biz Over the next three years, BMG Rights Management will be receiving equity injections of €200 million ($254 million) from each of its shareholders - investment group KKR and media group Bertelsmann - to be used for further acquisitions. It means the company has at least €400 million ($508 million) to spend - and perhaps even more than that. In addition, the shareholders plan to provide BMG Rights Management with debt capital of €400 million ($508 million). KKR has 51% and Bertelsmann has 49% of BMG Rights Management. The company's…. VIEW ARTICLE SOURCE

VIDEO: DigiMusicBids.com Gives New Power To Indie Musicians Posted: 31 Aug 2010 05:40 AM PDT press release Digimusicbids.com is the 1st online marketplace dedicated to the music industry. We provide a platform where businesses and artists connect, to create cost-efficient solutions and business relationships. We also help musicians find needed gear and equipment from a marketplace created just for them. From the artist just starting out, selecting their business manager and entertainment attorney, to the Grammy winner who needs a speech writer….you can find it all here at Digimusicbids.com.

Young Money CEO Explains Drake's "Thank Me Later" Not Selling A Milli Its First-Week Posted: 31 Aug 2010 05:32 AM PDT sohh Young Money CEO Cortez Bryant has explained why he believes Drake's highly-anticipated Thank Me Later debut album was unable to sell over a million copies its first-week in stores last June. From Bryant's perspective, Drizzy lacked a solid hit single to help push record-breaking sales."The first week was great but [Drake] still need that big smash pop hit like we had with [Lil] Wayne's 'Lollipop,'" Bryant said in an interview. "Wayne got his million because he had that urban side and he crossed over to that pop demographic. I believe Drake would've got those million sales if we would've had that pop record. I don't think 'Fancy' is that pop record either…It'll go so far, but when we drop 'Show Me A Good Time' in September — that has the potential to be that big record."…. VIEW ARTICLE SOURCE

Scott Weiland: 'Rock & Roll Bands Perform Live' Posted: 31 Aug 2010 05:32 AM PDT starpulse Stone Temple Pilots frontman Scott Weiland has fired back at reports he is using backing tracks on the road. The allegations were aimed at the rocker after he tumbled off the stage during a show in Ohio last week and appeared to keep singing. Fans at the concert were stunned when Weiland continued singing seconds later without sounding flustered or breathless. But the singer insists he's just professional. At a concert in….. VIEW ARTICLE SOURCE

Dance promoter Insomniac hits city with seven-figure lawsuit over canceled Tiesto concert Posted: 31 Aug 2010 05:31 AM PDT latimesblogs.latimes Tickets never went on sale and promotions were never staged, but a planned headlining concert by electronic artist Tiësto is the center of a seven-figure civil suit filed against the city of Los Angeles on Friday. Local dance promoter Insomniac Inc. claims the city breached its contract when it canceled what would have been an Oct. 30 concert by the well-known trance artist in the West Hall of the Los Angeles Convention Center. On Monday, the mayor's office referred requests for comments to the convention center, and a spokeswoman for the facility said no statement or comment would be forthcoming. In its filing,…. VIEW ARTICLE SOURCE

'Bed Intruder' songster turning fame into a future Posted: 31 Aug 2010 05:30 AM PDT news.yahoo Antoine Dodson's angry, head-shaking TV interview about an attempted rape against his younger sister in her bed has turned into a chart-topping iTunes song and YouTube hit and made the 24-year-old Alabama college student an Internet sensation. "So y'all need to hide your kids, hide your wife and hide your husband, 'cause they raping everybody out here," the song's catchy refrain goes. Dodson plans to use the money from the "Bed Intruder Song" selling for $1.29 a download and T-shirt sales to move his family out of the… VIEW ARTICLE SOURCE

Google and Arcade Fire Team for HTML5 'Experience' Posted: 31 Aug 2010 05:30 AM PDT wired We don't know exactly what to call the online collaboration between Arcade Fire and Google that launched Monday morning, but it sure is neat. This "Chrome Experience," as Google calls it, unfolds in multiple browser windows to the tune of Arcade Fire's "We Used To Wait," incorporating a viewer's childhood address and allowing the viewer to write a letter to their younger selves using a nice, spidery font. If music videos were invented for the web, rather than for television, they might look something like this…. VIEW ARTICLE SOURCE

Music and Brands Posted: 31 Aug 2010 05:30 AM PDT musiciancoaching Nikki Hirsch is the Director of Music Strategy and Alliances at Translation, LLC – a branding and advertising agency that handles clients such as McDonalds, Target, State Farm, HP and Wrigley's among others. Prior to being at Translation Nikki was a product manager at Atlantic Records and the Capitol Music Group where she handled artists like Uncle Kracker, Korn, The Click Five, Meatloaf, Fountains of Wayne and K.T. Tunstall…. READ INTERVIEW HERE

21 Korean music industry experts rank top idols Posted: 31 Aug 2010 05:30 AM PDT allkpop A group of 21 Korean music industry experts recently came together and participated in a survey that picked the best of the best idols in a variety of categories. With idol groups taking over the music market, it's an unending battle on the internet, between netizens in deciding which idol has the best vocal talents with the use of MR (Music Recorded) removed videos to potentially help arguments. The experts that participated are as follows:…. VIEW LIST HERE

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