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Live Nation Posts $30 Mil. 1st Qtr Losses

Profits fall despite 13% increase in revenue.

“The Road to Nashville” – Yet Another Talent Search

Online audio and video karaoke contest to find ‘Next Country Star’

It’s all I can do to write this one up, but there’ll be takers for it: Capitol Records Nashville and Yahoo’s Bix have joined forces to produce a digital-only ‘talent’ country music contest. (At least there won’t be TV programming to deal with.) The [...]

A Look at 2006 Soundscan Numbers

The Dixie Chicks’ Taking The Long Way, at 136,000 units, was the best selling Internet album of 2006.

How the Indie Record Store Survives

A specific list of things that several independent record stores in that area do to survive the continuing collapse of the CD market

Beatles Music Soon To Be Available Digitally

Paul McCartney’s newest CD, Memory Almost Full, will be the first time any of his songs have been available online

Hypebot and eMusic Clash

Usually, complaints follow publication, not precede.

The music/technology site www.hypebot.com is an interesting source for information about goings-on in the digital music business world. Today, there’s an intriguing piece on the efforts of eMusic to keep secret how they calculate payments to songwriters and artists.

Hypebot has begun their series about eMusic. You can read [...]

Do You Hate TicketMaster?

Of course, but not as much as Bob Lefsetz

Lefsetz does like to rant and rave and a lot of the time, his rants and raves are dead on the money. Consider “Boy has TM got an image issue. The public hates them. If they wanted to give back…” and go read more.