RSS 6 - Directory of Blogs and Feeds http://www.rss6.com/ 2012-02-03 18:03:57 Orange today announced they will be ‘exclusively' providing Comes With Music on the Nokia 5800 in the UK.  Finally Nokia's Come With Music gets the route to market it needs. I've long been a strong advocate of CWM and that belief remains intact despite reportedly poor sales to date.  Nokia always needed strong channel partner participation http://musicindustryblog.wordpress.com/2009/05/13/comes-with-music-finally-gets-its-route-to-market/ Wed, 13 May 2009 10:47:30 +0000 Spotify reached another milestone at the weekend, clocking up a million users in the UK. As I've mentioned in previous posts Spotify's success lies in doing what it does simply and well, not by doing anything particularly revolutionary (advanced caching technology arguably aside). But it is imperative that Spotify doesn't go the way of Spiral http://musicindustryblog.wordpress.com/2009/04/28/spotify-and-spiral-frog-spotify-the-difference/ Tue, 28 Apr 2009 07:50:24 +0000 The problem with mixing lawyers and legislators with business is that the results can be unexpected and inconvenient. With the Pirate Bay case there was always a good chance for the music industry that the ruling would at best be short of definitive. However the music industry has come out of this with a ruling http://musicindustryblog.wordpress.com/2009/04/17/the-pirate-bay-ruling-what-does-it-actually-mean-for-the-music-industry/ Fri, 17 Apr 2009 09:28:58 +0000 IMPORTANT DISCLAIMER: I'll state up front that I have no privileged information on the current financial situation at Spiral Frog and I'm only going to focus here on the strategic positioning of the music service. This strategic analysis stands, whatever the outcome of Spiral Frog's current management situation. There have been press reports concerning Spiral Frog's http://musicindustryblog.wordpress.com/2009/03/20/spiral-frog-reddip/ Fri, 20 Mar 2009 13:19:03 +0000 YouTube have announced that they will block access to music videos for UK viewers due to a dispute over licensing terms with UK collection society PRS for Music (formerly known as the MCPS-PRS Alliance). This is the almost inevitable result of two long-term strategic courses which have ultimately been on collision path: On the one hand you http://musicindustryblog.wordpress.com/2009/03/09/why-its-in-everyones-interest-to-get-music-videos-back-on-youtube-in-the-uk/ Mon, 09 Mar 2009 20:57:50 +0000 The Financial Times today report that Spotify has 250,000 UK Internet Users have downloaded the streaming music application, and 800,000 worldwide. Not bad for an application which has only recently just stopped being invite-only. I've posted before on why Spotify has been so successful, now we have some numbers to measure that success by. First http://musicindustryblog.wordpress.com/2009/03/02/spotify-subscribers-scratching-beneath-the-surface-of-the-numbers/ Mon, 02 Mar 2009 09:29:51 +0000 So Apple finally gets into the music subscription business….well sort of. Today Apple announced the first of its iTunes Pass offerings, in partnership with EMI and 80's electronic music pioneers Depeche Mode. In return for $18.99 a month buyers get   “…new and exclusive singles, remixes, video and other content from their favorite artists over a set http://musicindustryblog.wordpress.com/2009/02/24/itunes-pass-first-take/ Tue, 24 Feb 2009 14:43:57 +0000 The UK music industry and ISPs have been working towards the goals of the government-brokered Memorandum of Understanding since last summer but we've yet to see concrete results, in particular with regards to new music offerings. All stakeholders recognize the crucial importance of having a big fat carrot to accompany the stick. Yet we still http://musicindustryblog.wordpress.com/2009/02/17/what-the-isps-and-the-record-labels-need-to-do-next/ Tue, 17 Feb 2009 18:33:53 +0000 Regular readers will know that I've dedicated quite a lot of time to the debate over the threat that free music poses to the music business, but that I'm also a strong believer in embracing free as a legitimate business in the right way. It's a difficult equation to balance and I'm not going http://musicindustryblog.wordpress.com/2009/02/09/music-as-free-when-discovery-becomes-consumption/ Mon, 09 Feb 2009 13:58:14 +0000 I first spoke to the guys at Spotify a good few months ago and I have to confess to thinking at the time that they were just another digital music start-up. In fact, it was worse than that, I thought they were potentially another doomed digital music start-up if they didn't revise their strategy. http://musicindustryblog.wordpress.com/2009/02/06/spotify-why-it%e2%80%99s-been-so-successful-and-what-it-needs-to-do-next/ Fri, 06 Feb 2009 13:06:43 +0000