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Serviço de música Rdio chega ao Brasil em parceria com a Oi

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Beyond Oblivion fecha acordo com Warner e Sony

A empresa de música digital Beyond Oblivion fechou contrato com duas grandes gravadoras para obter licenças ao serviço Boinc, com características semelhantes às Comes With Music da Nokia. De acordo com a revista Music Week, a Oblivion ainda estaria negociando com outras grandes gravadoras. ”Esperamos anunciar acordos globais com a EMI e Universal em duas ou três semanas”, disse o CEO Adam Kidron, que também anda conversando com selos independentes. A empresa ainda não anunciou quais fabricantes [...]

Red Hot Chili Peppers nos cinemas para divulgar novo álbum

No dia 30 de agosto, mesmo dia do lançamento do álbum dos EUA, o Red Hot Chili Peppers irá fazer um show na Alemanha que será transmitido mundialmente em vários cinemas no mundo. Ainda de acordo com o site, a banda tocará álbum inteiro em sequência. E algumas músicas mais conhecidas. Confira o anuncio: “No [...]

Kaiser Chiefs lançou seu novo álbum ‘The Future Is Medieval’ hoje

Kaiser Chiefs hoje (03 de junho) seu novo álbum “O Futuro é medieval”, com um método único em que o fã pode fazer a curadoria. O lançamento surpresa do disco é o primeiro que permite ao ouvinte escolher as faixas (a partir de uma seleção de 20) e criar a arte da capa para criar [...]

Katy Perry’s Twitter Tirade About Product Placement: An Executive Weighs In

Even though product placement has become standard in music videos, Katy Perry recently felt the need to take to Twitter to defend it. After a Perry tweet last week that some in the media interpreted as criticism of product placement in Britney Spears’ new video for “Hold It Against Me,” Perry posted a five-part message [...]

Is Spotify Really Worth $1 Billion?

By Glenn Peoples, Nashville Spotify has joined the $1 billion club, according to numerous media reports. Russian investor Yuri Milner, who has put money into Facebook, is said to have invested $100 million in Spotify through his Digital Sky Technologies fund. That investment is said to value Spotify at $1 billion. That’s an incredible valuation [...]

Island Def Jam, Echo Nest Launch Groundbreaking Music Licensing Pact For Apps

Just go to any Music Hack Day — like the recent ones in New York and at the MIDEM conference — and meet the developers there working for free to create new and innovative music apps (many of which never see the light of day), and it becomes immediately clear this is a space full [...]

MTV to Launch OMAs, Digital Music Awards Show in April

MTV is naming its new digital music awards the OMAs – and leaving the “O” up for grabs. The network is to announce Thursday that the O Music Awards will take place April 28. MTV is leaving the “O” undefined and open to interpretation from viewers. The awards, the network said, “honor the migration of [...]

MySpace Music Loses Its Audience, And Its President

Remember MySpace Music? It was supposed to put online music streaming on the the right track. But with all the layoffs, shrinking audience and turmoil at parent MySpace, MySpace Music is singing the blues. According to comScore, only 17 million people in the U.S. visited MySpace Music in January, 2011, which is down 46 percent [...]

Music Piracy Ranks Distant Fourth Behind Porn, Film & TV

In the “take this for what it’s worth” category, it seems music is not the most popular type of media downloaded from BitTorrent trackers. Anti-piracy firm Envisional conducted a study on behalf of NBC Universal to see what type of content people were downloading. It found that out of 10,000 files tracked, only 2.9% were [...]

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