by Zach Shaw | Jan 8, 2013 | Digital Media
Led Zeppelin is unarguably one of the biggest bands to ever exist in rock music (just ask President Obama). So would having exclusive rights to stream their vast catalog be a major grab for any streaming subscription service? Hell yeah it would! And apparently such a...
by Bram Teitelman | Jun 6, 2012 | Digital Media
So it’s pretty widely known by now that when you sell a single on iTunes, the label winds up with about 70% of the 99 cent or $1.29 price, while Apple gets the remainder. Of course by the time the label and producer take their cut, the artist gets about $0.084...
by Zach Shaw | Oct 13, 2011 | Digital Media
At first glance, Facebook’s music integration seems like a great tool for both fans and musicians to share and expose music with one another. However, though it’s not even a month old, the integration with services like Spotify, iHeartRadio, Rhapsody, and others is...
by Zach Shaw | Oct 3, 2011 | Digital Media
Earlier today, Rhapsody announced that it had acquired Napster from Best Buy. The purchase was reportedly done to expand Rhapsody’s user base (whether Napster’s deals with labels will cross over is currently unclear). Best Buy will reportedly receive a minority stake...
by Zach Shaw | Sep 22, 2011 | Digital Media
Talk of Facebook launching a “music dashboard” has been going around the web since June of this year. Today, though, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the social network’s plan for music integration during the social network’s f8 developer conference in San...