Amazon Almost Giving Away Lady Gaga’s New Album
Not free, but pretty close: 99 cents gets you 14 songs. And, Amazon hopes, a reminder to use its cloud music service. (Remember Amazon's cloud music service?)
The Beatles Aren’t Yesterday, After All: Two Million Songs, 450,000 Albums in a Week
Question every Internet wisenheimer had last week: "Doesn't every Beatles fan already have every Beatles song?"Answer: Nope. Consumers had room for two million Fab Four songs, and another 450,000 albums in their digital catalogs.
Apple Welcomes the Beatles to iTunes With a New Ad Campaign
The big news: Albums and singles. Apple has an ad campaign cued up, of course--you can see some inside.
Dark Side of the Download: Pink Floyd Sues EMI Over Online Sales
It's standard operating practice for the music industry: Musicians sue labels, claiming they got screwed out of royalties.But from a writer's perspective, it's always nice when the plaintiff is a well-known act whose catalog includes a hit called "Money."
Music Funding Start-Up May Have Run Out of Funding UPDATED
Sellaband, the Dutch start-up that was supposed to let bands raise money directly from their fans, may have run out money itself. Bad news for Chuck D and Flavor Flav.
