MySpace's sloppy layouts and big brother corporate ownership has made it an easy target. But its hard to deny that for the last few years MySpace has been one of the most useful sites for garnering new fans and general band to fan interaction. But things are changing. Slowly but steadily page views...

ISP Virgin Media and Universal announced an unlimited download service that would allow subscribers to keep the tracks. But Sony Music and EMI are now signaling that they don't believe in the model and WMG has yet to decide.The fear is that an unlimited download service will be most attractive to heavy...

Funny how Rhapsody plays second fiddle to Spotify, at least within the industry. But stateside, consumers have little familiarity with Spotify, and Rhapsody has been offering a similar concept for years - albeit in a mostly paid version. That has attracted a niche audience, though a recently-approved...

Norah Jones performed (playing guitar instead of piano) and Steve Jobs made his first major pubic appearance today at Apple's major music announcement. The assembled crowd of journalists greeted Jobs with thunderous applause usually reserved for conquering heroes.Top music news from the press conference...

Music commerce services provider Nimbit has launched launched Nimbit MyStore for Facebook, which the company says is the first direct to fan social commerce solution.Previously, fans on Facebook who wanted to purchase music or merchandise from an artist would be re-directed to a third party site like...

How long does this story go on? Surprisingly, the latest CD death-watch report comes from Billboard, typically a label cheerleader. According to an analysis published Thursday, US-based album sales tanked 18.1 percent year-over-year during the month of August. And, compared to the same period in 2007,...

The highlights: * Retail giant the HMV Group is investing £7.7M ($12.5M USD) in cash to acquire a 50% equity stake in 7digital * 7digital will power HMV music and video download stores in the UK and Canada and e-books store for Waterstone’s * HMV customers will have access to 7Digital's 6...

If you regularly update your music library, and are tired of constantly editing your playlists, then why not use Smart Playlists? Creating a Smart Playlist will save you a lot of time when playing, burning, and syncing your music with your MP3 player. As your music collection grows and changes it makes...

Music and Internet worlds merged on San Francisco's posh Nob Hill as insiders brainstormed about industry rocking Web 2.0 trends from social networking to smart phones with cameras.Internet technologies will transform a music industry in which recording studio revenues have tumbled along with CD sales,...

Just in, the Spotify APP that the whole world and their mother, seemingly, has been waiting for has apparently been approved by Apple and may be in the APP store within a fortnight. It’s a good move by Apple who could have easily been worried about Spotify’s effect on their own iTunes software....