Weekly News Round Up
Round up of this week’s news:
- Harmonix announce the ‘Rock Band Network’, a platform where indie musicians can turn their songs into gameplay tracks for the video game Rock Band and sell them to other users [READ].
- KaZaa return as a legal subscription service, but seem confused about what consumers want [READ].
- Following its rapid success in Europe, music streaming service Spotify announce plans to launch in the U.S. later this Summer [READ].
- Spotify add another 2 million songs to its library following a deal with online distribution service IODA [READ].
- Brian Message, manager of Radiohead, has started a venture called Polyphonic, which will finance and distribute artists projects in a non-traditional manner [READ].
- Details of Drake’s very unusual deal with Universal are revealed [READ].
- Fees to register United States copyrights are set to rise on August 1, 2009 [READ].
- According to new data released by Nielsen, traffic to Myspace Music has grown 190% since launching in September [READ].
- It looks like the music industry has scared entrepreneurs away [READ].
Categories: Industry News
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