This just in from Bloomberg news Pandora Media Founder Sees Company’s First Profit Next Year By Meg Tirrell May 19 (Bloomberg) — Pandora Media Inc., the free online- radio service that generates playlists based on users’ musical preferences, aims to be profitable next year for the first time since...

In this post, Bob Lefsetz states: Everyone knows the real bands are on indies. That’s commercial crap on the majors. Yep, got that one right. Then a few minutes later, on another post, Bob spends 10000 words extolling the virtues of Coldplay’s free downloadeable live album. Like Coldplay needs any...

If the most popular rapper in the planet cannot sell more than 50% of the tickets at a concert, we know the rap industry is in trouble. I am sure Jay-Z’s $750k paycheck, Mercedes Maybach concert transportation and other goodies he demanded before the concert didn’t help. Who said concert...

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The register has this interesting article about how illegal P2P music downloads mirror legal downloading, which basically means illegal downloaders prefer the most popular music instead of the obscure and less popular. 2P study: Music crackdown is bad for business Music biz throwing away cash By Andrew...