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Last Week’s Music Industry News And How It Could Effect You…

by bhoughton on November 10th, 2007

• If you’re a fan of Facebook, you’ll be seeing and hearing a lot more music soon.  Facebook has just launched a major music initiative including pages from your favorite artists.  iLike also expanded its music fan site with 150,000 artist pages.
• Love the Eagles but hate Wal-Mart? The retail gian may be the only “official place to buy their new CD, but never fear.  Thanks to the good old laws of supply and demand, the new Eagles CD found its way into other retailers.  The Eagles topped the charts last week selling 750,000 units; almost 3 times the Britney debut. (There is a God.)
• Indie music download heaven eMusic hit 350,000 subscribers and added several cool labels.
• If you’re in your own band, you might be interested in these two articles:
  • Patrick Faucher, the head of Music 2.0 artist service’s company Nimbit answered four questions that Hypebot will be putting to music industry leaders in the coming months in a new series called 4QFor.
  • Bruce Houghton’s essay on The Rise Of The Musical Middle Class drew reaction across the blogosphere.  Here is a roundup of some of the best comments.  Join the debate.
• And if you’re a fan of online file trading, notorious file sharing site Pirate Bay just expanded its reach by sponsoring a band and starting work on a effort to to create and open source Bit Torrent replacement for powering all those  unauthorized music and film downloads.

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