Beggars Group Sign Up To The Amie Street Music Model

February 26th, 2008 by Finchy Posted in Digital Music News | No Comments

Over at Crenk, they have posted an article about Amie Street and how they have just signed the Beggars Group to their catalog. The Beggars Group consists of labels such as XL, Rough Trade, 4AD, Matador Records and Polyvinyl Recording Co. This means a further 15,000 tracks to the Amie Street catalog.
Here at RouteNote we [...]

Limewire Signs Redeye Distribution To Their New Online Store

February 22nd, 2008 by Finchy Posted in Digital Music News | No Comments

Limewire has just announced that they have signed Redeye Distribution to their new online store. Redeye have joined Ingrooves, Nettwerk Productions, IRIS and RouteNote in the new online store from Limewire.
The deal adds 20,000 tracks from over 200 labels, including their own in-house labels, Yep Roc Records, Eleven Thirty, and Bonfire. Redeye’s catalog of tracks [...]

Vivendi Has Just Launched Zaoza in France

February 21st, 2008 by Finchy Posted in Digital Music News | No Comments

Vivendi (Universal) has launched their own mobile music portal, Zaoza. It has been reported that the music portal also embraces social networking and file-sharing. The current price tag per month is at €3 ($4.40), which includes unlimited downloads of exclusive content from both mobile and PCs. Vivendi has also already signed Sony BMG to provide [...]

So Much Music News, So Little Weblogs

February 18th, 2008 by Finchy Posted in Digital Music News | No Comments

I have always struggled to find really good music news sites. Be it either related to digital music or not. Why is this? Why are there so many music magazines out there and millions of people all over the world want to be professional musicians, but there are so few really good quality music news [...]

Myspace Trying To Sell Music Again

February 16th, 2008 by Finchy Posted in Digital Music News | 1 Comment

We have learnt that News Corp is trying to put together a joint venture for Myspace. This joint venture will be similar to their current video joint venture with NBC Universal. In other words the joint venture will be for content providers to place their music on the service and in return gain an equity [...]

Where Do Musicians Hang Out?

February 14th, 2008 by Finchy Posted in Digital Music News | No Comments

Currently for RouteNote we are in the stage of purchasing advertising for the site, both online and offline. This brings us to the point of asking the question “where do you musicians hangout online?” Im trying to build a list of possibly places in which to advertise our service to musicians who will actually really [...]

Imeem Has Acquired Snocap

February 14th, 2008 by Finchy Posted in Digital Music News | No Comments

It has been reported over at Techcrunch that Imeem has purchased Snocap. Both Imeem and Snocap are partners of ours and for all of our artists nothing will change because of this acquisition. It has not yet been confirmed by Imeem if Snocap will still operate under their brand or whether it the Snocap technology [...]