December 2009
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Raymond vs. Raymond vs. Raymond... Usher's...
Digital Music News:
It seems that Lil Wayne’s Rebirth is setting the tone for a string of very early big-name album leaks. Among the latest casualties is Usher, whose album Raymond Vs. Raymond began appearing online mid-day Sunday the 27th according to data from BigChampagne.. Like Rebirth, the album’s release date has played a questionable game of hopscotch. Originally set to be...
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The Decade in Music: Sales Slides, Pirates,... →
Today’s The USA Today:
From the British Invasion in the ’60s to grunge in the ’90s, modern music’s movements always seem to fit conveniently within the boundaries of decades.
Not so the naughts, when the most ubiquitous, significant hit turned out to be the iPod, while pop diffused into a shuffle of fleeting microtrends from dubstep to crunk to screamo.
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What a Difference a Decade Makes in Music
Houston Chronicle:
“Just imagine we could rid ourselves of this global crisis of piracy,” Garland says, “the fundamental issues are unchanged. It turns out the ability to cherry-pick songs and pay very little has shaken up the economy as much as anything. We thought the problem was piracy, but it turns out the problem was the Internet.”
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Accused 'Wolverine' pirate calls charges...
Sandoval at CNET:
“It’s just ridiculous. I bought it from a Korean guy on the street for five bucks. Then I uploaded it. I didn’t make any money.”
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But Sanchez’s explanation raises more questions than it answers. The first of which is whether the trail of the person who first leaked the movie has gone cold in the eight months since the unauthorized copy...
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“Napster wasn’t the problem,” Eric Garland says. “Napster was...”
– http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=121690908
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““What’s been demonstrated is that next quarter results are better if...”
– Full story, and why book publishers should learn from the music industry here: Wall Street Journal.
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The Timbaland Camp Springs a Leak... Again
Digital Music News:
It’s no secret in the hip-hop world that anything going through the Timbaland camp has a good chance of leaking. Back in September, Digital Music News reported that the first leaked tracks from Jay-Z’s Blueprint 3 were Timbaland-produced - a problem that even Jay-Z acknowledged at the time.
Now, Timbo’s long-anticipated album Shock Value II is...