Close to 260,00 independent artists have signed up for CD Baby’s new sync-licensing programme in under a week. The music-licensing service has been developed for musicians wanting to earn money by licensing their original music for film, TV, commercials, YouTube, and more.
CueCongs has beta-launched its music hub offering licensed recordings from signed and independent artists, DJ’s and composers – among them Ennio Morricone, Peter Gabriel, Judge Jules, Deadly Avenger and John Metcalfe – to be used in online and mobile media, writes Steve Mullins.
Google Music has launched Magnified Artists to showcase unsigned artists in the Android music store and to perform at live events, writes Maria Stadtmueller. The search giant uses sales performance, buzz monitoring and editorial nous to select Magnified acts from its recently launched Artist Hub, a digital destination which allows bands to upload and sell music.
Regardless of how cloud-based streaming plays out in the long run, 2012 will be a year in which the access-based approach will get a full test, says eMarketer.
Online radio outfit Pandora is rolling out an online hub for its recently launched live concert series together with Budweiser, says Mark Terry. All artists performing in Pandora’s series will be showcased on the hub, which currently consists of behind-the-scenes video content from the recent Dawes concert in Portland, plus interviews with the band and fans.
Live Nation is acquiring BigChampagne Media Measurement and will use BigChampagne’s Ultimate Chart platform to power social discovery, content relevancy and product personalisation across Live Nation’s businesses. The metrics outfit’s products and services will be expanded to incorporate access to live event data, ticketing and merchandising, direct-to-fan and other exclusive data.
Streaming-music outfit We7 has allied with dating service Match.com to provide users with Valentines music. Lo [...]
Katy Perry’s likeness will appear in The Sims 3 Showtime: Katy Perry, a new edition of The Sims from EA. Perry will deliver her style and fashion sense to the [...]
Artist of the year in the iTunes Rewind 2011 rankings? That would be Adele, who also grabbed the song of the year title for Someone Like You. Demonstrating that [...]
Digital copyright is an oxymoron, because digital is all about copying files, Peter Jenner tells
Flowd is one year old, which is as a good reason as any to publish an infographic. In the last 12 months, the music social network has seen 250,000 messages and [...]
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Westlife has teamed with personalised CD company MixPixie so that fans can create unique versions of the band’s upcoming Greatest Hits album. They can buy the [...]
US sweets makers Wonka – producer of the Nerds, Laffy Taffy and Sweetarts brands - has partnered with rapper and actor Nick Cannon to launch Wonka Wrapper, an [...]
17, the cosmetics brand from UK retailer Boots, has launched a new-music campaign, with 17 emerging artists commissioned to write songs and produce videos linke [...]
