Beggars Group, Matador Records, and Polyvinyl Recording Co. have made deals with AmieStreet that adds songs by several legends-in-the-making to the site's DRM-free music store, which starts songs at a price point of zero, raising it as more people download it, all the way up to $0.98. (How Can it be Free?)
- According to The NPD Group, a leading provider of consumer and retail information, the amount of music that consumers acquired in the U.S. increased by 6 percent in 2007. A sharp increase in legal digital download revenues could not offset declines in CD sales, which resulted in a net 10 percent decline in music spending (from $44 to $40 per capita among Internet users). As a result the overall portion of music acquisition that consumers actually paid for fell to 42 percent in 2007 from 48 percent in 2006. (Press Release)
- The musicFIRST (Fairness in Radio Starting Today) Coalition today released three questions that members of Congress should consider asking the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) and corporate radio representatives during the industry’s three-day lobbyfest in Washington this week. Big radio’s number one priority is to defeat legislation to create a fair performance right on radio for recording artists, musicians and record labels. (Read Full Article)
- New study looks at how consumers interact with digital environment. (Digital Outlook Report)
- BandLoop is like a stripped-down version of MySpace that has eliminated everything except show announcements and blog posts, in order to offer a more streamlined conduit for show and other information to flow from bands to their fans. (Full Article)
