MySpace is claiming that its MySpace Music service has already streamed well over a billion songs since launching on September 25.
The company are being a little vague with the details but it seems that the billion song total was reached only a ‘few days’ after launch.
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A new way of getting music has launched in the UK.
As Nokia launches their ‘music with phones’ offering today and T-Mobile/Google offered music for the G1, we’ve heard of another company using music to tempt people towards their product.
Nectar, who provide a loyalty card which gives points against purchases, have launched Nectar Music Store in the UK. We understand that it’s the first in the UK using loyalty points as track-buying currency.
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CD and DVDs sales may be going down the dumper, but downloads of DRM-free music are going through the roof.
MP3 download site 7digital.com is reporting that sales have rocketed since they introduced DRM-free music from major labels Warner and EMI, with the site now riding high as the UK’s second biggest digital music retailer, after iTunes.
This is the second part of the review. Yesterday we introduced the Motorola S9 review of the wireless headphones and covered the remote media controls.
Use as a phone headset
Pressing the call button when you’re listening to music automatically pauses the track and any voice-dialling commands that you utter are passed over to the handset, dialling the number, if configured.
Continue reading Motorola S9 Review: Stereo Bluetooth Headset pt 2 (Score 72%)
We’ve been using the S9 stereo bluetooth headset from Motorola for quite a long time now.
The concept behind them is intriguing – being able to enjoy music without having to deal with the wires that normally get caught up between headphones and the music player – but they’re more than that. You can step backwards and forwards through the tracks and make and receive phone calls.
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It looks like someone in the music business has taken a hard swallow and commissioned some research giving the true view of UK 14-24 year olds. Potentially refreshing.
Not only that, but it appears that they’ve swallowed even harder and decided to actually listen to what those surveyed are actually saying – perhaps a first in the music industry.
Continue reading British Music Rights Survey On Teenage Kicks
Friday saw the news that Warner Music and Last.FM had ended their arrangement to have Warner’s music play on the free on-demand music streaming service that Last.FM runs.
It’s unclear if Warner’s dropped Last.FM or if Warner’s were themselves dropped.
Continue reading Warner Music And Last.FM Part Company: Brief Analysis
Paul McGuinness, the manager of U2, has been speaking at a conference, Music Matters conference in Asia, addressing what he thinks is wrong with the music business and who is to blame for its reduced ability to make money.
Broadly — to save you having to read the 12 pages of it — he thinks the ISPs are making loads of money, because people are getting broadband connections to download/share music.
Continue reading Paul McGuinness Of U2 Fame: Our Comments
Apple are ‘keeping it real’ again this year, with the second iTunes Music Festival. It’s an opportunity to actually see the people who normally just trickle out of your iPod headphones for speakers.
This year’s event will be at Koko in Camden (nee the Camden Palace), between 1 – 31 July. It’s all opening with N*E*R*D on 1 July. There’s 60 bands playing in total with other artists performing include The Ting Tings, CSS and Chaka Khan.
Thom Yorke has said that the ‘In rainbows’ album that surprised the world — and frankly gave them a near incalculable amount of free publicity — was a ‘one off.’
Yorke went on to say “I think it was a one-off response to a particular situation,” which we read as, our contract came to an end with our record label, we needed to get some pretty big attention and it worked. Now everyone in the world has re-remembered who we are, we’ll go back to the old model of selling records to people.
There’s been various reports of how many people paid for ‘In Rainbows’, varying between a third and how Italy had 75% pay for it.
Yorke went on “We are about that direct relationship (now) because we are big enough to establish that.”
Enough said.