Motley Crue rocker Vince Neil had 110-million reasons to smile for his birthday blowout weekend here—just two days earlier Vince, Tommy Lee, Nikki Sixx and Mick Mars signed a $100-million+ mega deal to produce three albums and perform three world tours for the giant LiveNation entertainment conglomerate.
Omnifone introduces MusicStation Max, continues push for new music-industry business model
U.K. music download provider Omnifone has expanded its MusicStation program by offering a new service, aptly named MusicStation Max, where cell phone buyers can download an unlimited amount of music from all four major labels for “free.” Free, of course, means handset manufacturers will build the cost of the MusicStation Max plan into their devices, sell them to the carriers, who will resell them to consumers along with a special music, voice, and data plan. We can assume that “special” means more expensive as music is added to voice and data.
With MusicStation Max, consumers can download music directly to their cell phones for 12 to 18 months, depending on the plan chosen, after which they will have to purchase another Max phone (and plan) to keep downloading. If they choose not to re-up, they still own their downloads and can use them on the device originally purchased or on a computer but not on other devices such as an iPod or Zune.
UMG Talks Temporal Pricing, Utopian Future
Interesting post at MocoNews from the World Mobile Congress. Rob Wells, Universal Music Group SVP of Digital, talked about the goals of the company with an almost cinematic flair.The start and endgame for Universal and, indeed, the industry worldwide, is providing consumers with blanket access through a celestial jukebox anytime, at home, in the car. This is the next step in the utopian future for music... And this about temporal pricing:
If an artist has just delivered an album from studio, we could potentially
deliver it to a limited number of users for a higher price. It’s something we’re
quite keen to develop; for example, through our own B2C channels - artists
websites.
Report: Imeem acquires Snocap
Social network, Imeem, has acquired struggling music-licensing company, Snocap, the company cofounded by Shawn Fanning of Napster fame, according to a published report TechCrunch, citing an unnamed source, reported that the deal is being finalized this week.
Wharton Study Finds ILike Users Acquire 250% More Music In Month After Registration
The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, a leading business school, and iLike, the web's leading social music discovery service, today announced initial results of an ongoing research collaboration: that long-term iLike users added nearly 250% more music per month to their libraries in the first month of using iLike. One of the top drivers of affiliate sales to the iTunes Store, iLike helps over 20 million registered users discover new music they like, and makes it easy for them to buy that music via retail links. The study indicates that the significant increase in people's music consumption may be attributed to the iLike Sidebar (www.iLike.com/download) for iTunes and Windows Media Player.
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