Weekly News Round Up
Round up of this week’s news:
- Live Nation introduces an all-in concert ticket for it’s “No Service Fee Wednesday” promotion, this includes a lawn ticket, all service fees, parking, a hot dog and a soda; all for $29.99 [READ].
- Jack White’s label, Third Man Records, launches a new 2 tiered subscription service on their website [READ].
- Terry talks about the “value of free” and how independent artists should be embracing the concept of giving music to their fans for free [READ].
- Webcasters and record labels settle there on-going dispute over royalties. Is this good or bad for Internet radio? Jerry Del Colliano investigates [READ].
- Michael Jackson’s album sales jumped to 800,000 last week, and interestingly the majority of those sales were physical [READ].
- Trent Reznor tells fans what he would do if he were an aspiring artist, apparently not much different from what he is doing now [READ].
- Universal Music Group strike a new partnership with digital music distributor TuneCore, giving indie artists major options [READ].
- ASCAP tells website owners that if they want to embed YouTube videos on their site, they better get a public performance license [READ].
- Online radio service Pandora rake in $35 million in a round of funding lead by Greylock and confirm that David Sze will be joining the borad [READ].
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