Our Digital Music

• A new study showed that iTunes and not illegal file sharing or P2P use was to blame for the big slump in music sales.
• Despite the big slump in CD sales the music industry overall (concerts, merchandise, portable players) is growing.
• iLike and Billboard have teamed for two new charts measuring internet song activity.
• Friendster has opened it community of 50 million to outside developers just as MySpace and Facebook have. Stay tuned for lots of cool free widgets to add music and other stuff to your Friendster and MySpace pages just like you now can on Facebook.
• Pandora founder Tim Westergren testified on behalf of the Digital Music Association before a Senate Committee on internet radio an new higher royalty rates that may silence some net stations.
• Amazon CEO finally broke his silence and talked about the new Amazon mp3 store. He says consumers love th store.  Have you check it it out and what do you think of it?
• More DRM free music is finally showing up on iTunes but at a painfully slow pace.
• Got a band? Hypebot published fhe final 10 top 100 Free & Affordable High & Low Tech Ways To Promote Music and links to all 100.

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