Warner Music made some headlines this week with the news that it was taking its Korean unit and setting it up in a joint venture with SK Telecom and a record label the operator owns. Warner CEO Edgar Bronfman has talked about how “advanced and progressive” the Korean mobile music market is, and that the [...]
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Full-Track Downloads Taking Off, Apparently
A new research report says that full-track mobile downloads increased 20 times in 2005 (via Abiro) over the previous year, with global revenues leaping from $12.4 million to $251 million. Let’s focus on that, rather than the ridiculous prediction that the number will be $9.3 billion in 2011 (since there’s no telling how they got [...]
Goldfrapp To MobLog
When a name as big on the music scene as Goldfrapp, in conjunction with mega-label EMI, start something, you know it’s gone mainstream and is almost certainly here to stay. So now Goldfrapp have followed Maximo Park and started to moblog, it’s great news for moblogging in general and Moblog.co.uk, the Electronica-meets-trip-hop-meets-glam duo’s chosen platform. [...]
Nobody’s Making Money From Mobile Music
“Mobile Music A Revenueless Land Grab”, says MocoNews. Somehow, I don’t find that hard to believe. They point to an FT article out of MIDEM, the big digital music confab in Cannes this week, with execs not wanting to talk about how little they’re making from mobile music — and they’re all simply saying that [...]
Moderati Provides Year End Ringtone Wrap Up
While I think it is generally well known that Russell, Carlo and I all think that music is being terribly mishandled for mobile and as a result it is far from living up to its potential ringtones continue to be surprising for their appeal, staying power, for their ability to command as much as a [...]
Ringtones Are Not Mobile Music, and Vice Versa
A BusinessWeek article about rap group Public Enemy was in my RSS reader this morning, its description saying “The hip-hop group sees wireless music as a way to air its radical views — and make a little money”. The group’s Chuck D has been involved in digital music for a long time, through the Rapstation [...]
Apple Could Sell 10 million nanos in Q4, Report Says
The latest fuel for the nano-ROKR fire: a research note from an investment bank saying that Apple might sell 10 million iPod nanos in the fourth quarter of the year. This is based on information it’s gotten about Apple’s nano build orders for the quarter, which exceed 10 million. Makes you wonder what the estimates [...]
More Musical Greed
One of the most innovative online music initiatives in recent times, has been the subscription model. Services like (new) Napster, Yahoo and Rhapsody offer you as much music as you can cram onto your hard drive for a fixed monthly subscription of between $5 and $9.95 a month – provided you keep paying your subscription. [...]
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