Nokia’s ‘Comes With Music’ may already have generated its first fan-site, but questions remain on the future for mobile music services - surely the usability factor doesn’t yet match desktop alternatives, such as iTunes?
Apple does offer the iTunes Store for WiFi, and has before been rumoured to hold plans for its very own mobile music service, though this may prove less successful if aimed at iPhone users alone. As an incremental addition, iTunes for WiFi offers something like a mobile experience.
That no one beyond Nokia appears yet to be aiming to offer a full package (hot potato) mobile music service, incumbents must surely be mulling the latest figures to come out of Japan.
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Posted by Jonny on November 7th, 2008 under
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EMI Music has appointed one of the first wave of internet industry plus music visionaries, PeopleSound.com founder Ernesto Schmitt as president of its catalogue business, reporting to Elio Leoni-Sceti, EMI Music’s chief executive. He will join EMI next month.
Schmitt, 38, joins EMI from DSG International, Europe’s second largest consumer electronics retailer which operates the Dixons, Currys and PC World stores.
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MySpace may have plans to introduce its very own ‘iPod-killer’ to supplement its newly-introduced music download service, company CEO Chris DeWolf explained at the Web 2.0 summit in San Francisco yesterday.
There’s no big rush to do so, however, with DeWolf simply conceding “it’s possible” before stressing his company remains focused on the music service right now.
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Posted by Jonny on November 6th, 2008 under
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US album sales in October declined 19.4 per cent year on year, according to the latest SoundScan numbers as reported by Coolfer.
That’s steeper decline than 2008 has been as a year, but quite possibly attributable to a relatively weak summer release schedule (just watch the action hot up from mid-October on), the US elections and - principally - the economic downturn which will have a huge impact on music sales.
Why will recession have such an impact on music sales? Because years of litigation against customers has driven a schism between US music consumers and US labels, sadly to the detriment of all concerned, including the artists.
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Posted by Jonny on November 4th, 2008 under
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Seven of the UK’s music download retailers are launching a campaign to highlight music sold in the MP3 format.
7digital.com, Digitalstores.co.uk, HMV.com, Play.com, Tescodigital.com, Tunetribe.com and Woolworthsdownload.co.uk will all use a new “MP3 compatible” logo to show music fans which music downloads will play on all computers and most digital players, including the iPod and iPhone.
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Posted by Jonny on October 28th, 2008 under
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Walmart has re-launched its online music store, storming in with a US price cut on the music it sells - 74-cents will buy a track, well under the 99-cents per track offered by iTunes or Amazon.
Walmart has exclusively sold MP3s through its online store since February 2008 and now offers more than 3 million MP3s with content from all major labels. The enhanced MP3 online store is supported by multiple elements in Walmart stores, including a free MP3 download with every CD purchased in stores or online.
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Posted by Jonny on October 28th, 2008 under
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EMI Music has hitched a deal with InMotion under which the label’s music catalogue will be made available for sale at the latter firm’s airport-based kiosks across the US.
Music fans will be able to buy and download a selection of EMI Music’s key current and catalogue albums and singles directly to portable devices at major US airports using its in-store PlayPoint Media Hotspot kiosks.
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Posted by Jonny on October 8th, 2008 under
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EMI plans to enter the increasingly crowded online music and video sales market with its own download service, to be made available through its existing portal, EMI.com.
The company already has some experience in this - it has been offering its Share service to music journalists for some while in order to securely distribute pre-release music to them for review.
There’s a strong likelihood the site will offer music streaming, as it is being described as a “learning lab” for people to discover new music. The company is increasingly forging its own digital destiny in online music - it’s no suprise last year’s biggest digital story comes from former EMI act, Radiohead, for example.
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Posted by Jonny on October 7th, 2008 under
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Plans to introduce a Product (RED)-supporting music download service are advanced, but the Bono-backed group’s keeping plans close to its chest even as the anticipated autumn launch looms.
A representative of the group told Distorted Loop, “We have nothing new to announce since the last press release we sent to you - but hopefully soon!”
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Posted by Jonny on October 7th, 2008 under
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Universal Music has reached yet another deal to offer music in DRM-free MP3 format to music fans - even while the company hasn’t yet offered catalogue in the format to 65 million iTunes customers.
The new attempt to support a disruptive service this time champions one-year-old Sony BMG-owned service, Dada.net, which will now offer its users DRM-free full track MP3 downloads and ringtones for a monthly fee.
Dada is the only company to offer its content through all major mobile carriers - but where this gets more interesting is that the company “expects to be able to offer users over-the-air MP3 downloads to mobile devices in the coming weeks,” it said in the release announcing the Universal link. (Important to note this deal appears US only at this juncture). Read the rest of this entry »
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