Though plastic sales may be waning, value may remain in ascribing physical characteristics to virtual content. But do “digital album signing” and “second-hand MP3s” add up to real innovation? Read more »
MySpace has begun rolling out 30-second audio ads, as the News Corp (NYSE: NWS). site continues its shift from a general social network to a… Read more »
It’s taken more than a year since the Septemeber ’08 US launch, but MySpace Music is finally live in the UK and with the same features alrea… Read more »
As this is being written, negotiations between MySpace Music and social music startup Imeem are still underway with issues including how muc… Read more »
MySpace vet Jamie Kantrowitz is shifting to MySpace Music, moving literally from London to New York as SVP of strategy and global marketing.… Read more »
At our recent EconMusic conference in LA, our co-editor and EVP Staci D. Kramer interviewed MySpace (NSDQ: NWS) Music President Courtney Hol… Read more »
Just 11 days in to the job and new MySpace Music president Courtney Holt was thrown in at the deep end, at MidemNet in Cannes, to talk about… Read more »
One of the most over-rated and over-hyped jobs in the digital music industry has finally been filled: After months of drib-drab leaks (you w… Read more »
Now you can listen to indie songs before Steve Jobs puts them in a commercial. MySpace Music has signed a deal with digital music distributo… Read more »
You’re reading it here first … That Hulu-like private-equity set-up for the much-hyped MySpace Music isn’t on the front burner and may not… Read more »
Merlin, the new “fifth major” label representing independents with nine percent of US digital music sales, has blasted MySpace Music for all… Read more »
I got WebEx’d. I saw a well-practiced demo of the new MySpace Music last night, and fell under the impression that the News Corp (NYSE: NWS)… Read more »
MySpace Music (www.myspace.com/music) won’t be live for a few hours yet, but I just got off the phone with Steve Pearman, SVP-Product Strate… Read more »
MySpace’s long-awaited music music store is going live tonight at 9:00 PM PT/12:00 AM ET. EMI, the last major holdout among the major labels… Read more »
Update: As of about midnight on the west coast, the site is live. We’ll have reactions and a full review later this morning, after we’ve ta… Read more »
Hope springs eternal in music, and it seems, in the music industry as well. Jean Bernard Levy, the CEO of Vivendi (EPA: VIV) (which owns the… Read more »
MySpace Music, which was originally expected to launch Monday, is now pushed to later in the week, and other drib drabs about it are leaking… Read more »
Updated below: Fortune gets a first crack at doing a story on MySpace Music, which is launching in its new avatar next week. And while the N… Read more »