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Exclusive: Pandora's Plan to Share More Streaming Data With Artists | Billboard - 0 views

  • Stung by accusations that it doesn’t pay enough royalties to artists, Pandora Media has been quietly working on a tool that would demonstrate the company's value by giving artists more information on how their songs perform on its Internet radio service.
  • The tool is essentially a dashboard that tells artists such things as the spin counts of each of their songs, how many thumbs up (or down) their songs have received and their audience reach by age, gender and geography, among other things
  • movement for “data transparency,”
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  • “heat map”
  • The company, which is lobbying Congress to change the method used to calculate the royalties it and other Internet radio services must pay,
  • royalty rate calculated by the
  • Copyright Royalty Board.
  • independent, unsigned musicians are more likely to side with his company because they receive more exposure for their music on Internet radio than they do on broadcast radio. Established artists on the other hand feel they should get more money for hits that have already proven their worth.
  • don’t like compulsory licenses. They’ve been trying to undermine them by making the rates so high that Internet radio companies would rather do direct deals with them."
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Warner Music Gains Approval to Buy Parlophone, a Last Piece of EMI - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • Universal was forced to sell about a third of those assets to preserve competition in the market.
  • In February, Warner made a $765 million deal for the Parlophone group, a large chunk of EMI that includes some of its biggest labels,
  • Warner worked to win approval from independents by promising those groups the opportunity to buy “a significant portion” of the Parlophone assets.
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  • Edgar M. Bronfman Jr. had resigned
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How Google Music wants to take on Spotify, Rdio and Rhapsody - paidContent - 0 views

  • Google entered a crowded space when it launched its own music subscription service this week: Google Play Music All Access competes head-on with Spotify, Rdio, Rhapsody, Muve Music and a handful of other offerings, all of which offer more or less the same catalog for the same price.
  • Paul Joyce, Lead Product Manager for Google Play Music
  • Play millions of songs, on your desktop and on the go, for one low monthly fee. That’s what Spotify and all of its competitors have been offering for some time now, and Google doesn’t mess with the basic recipe. All Access costs $9.99
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  • better at engaging you
  • smart radio stations based on your own music collection
  • Google’s subscription music catalog seamlessly integrates with the company’s music locker, with which users can store up to 20,000 songs for free.
  • “There is more we can do to innovate in social,”
  • one has to assume that it would be powered by Google+
  • recommendations from circles and communities, with the ability to share circles of influencers with others
  • follow the 50 most influential indie rock bloggers with one click.
  • There have been ongoing reports that Google is going to launch a separate music subscription service on YouTube,
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Praverb Dot Net - 0 views

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INgrooves Fontana | Digital Distribution of Music, Video & Film - 1 views

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    UMG sold Fontana Distribution to the digital wholesaler, INgrooves.
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Morphius Records Newsletter - 0 views

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