Napster Open to Sale. This Was Definitely On The Cards

August 30th, 2008 by Finchy Posted in Digital Music News | No Comments

Napster has hinted that the company is up for sale again, saying in its response to a dissident shareholder group that the company is once again exploring possible strategic alternatives, and has retained UBS Investment Bank to assist in the process. The company hired UBS two years ago to explore a possible sale, but no [...]

Limewire Store Signs The Orchard and Adds 2 Million Tracks To Its Catalog

August 29th, 2008 by Finchy Posted in Digital Music News | No Comments

Lime Wire LLC (the company) has announced a deal with The Orchard, a large digital distributor for independent artists and small labels. The deal will effectively double the amount of music available in the LimeWire Store to more than 2 million tracks. The LimeWire Store launched in the spring of 2008 selling 256kbps DRM-free [...]

BBC Worldwide Plans Ad-Supported Music Service

August 29th, 2008 by Finchy Posted in Digital Music News | No Comments

BBC Worldwide is working on an ad-supported music service that would offer free streaming or paid downloads of songs and videos from the BBC archives, including live performances from its “Top of the Pops” and “Live Lounge” on Radio 1, New Media Age reported.
The service is expected to launch next year with at least 1,000 [...]

Cloud Speakers Music Aggregator Receives Funding

August 28th, 2008 by Finchy Posted in Digital Music News | No Comments

Cloudspeakers, an aggregator of music reviews, streaming tracks and music videos, said that it has received an investment from Veronica Holding. Financial details of the deal were not disclosed. Founded in 2007, Netherlands-based Cloudspeakers aggregates legal, music-related links from a range of sources, such as Pitchfork Media, Yahoo Music, XLR8R and PopMatters. [...]

iTunes Growth Is Still On The Rise - Are You Part Of The Movement

August 28th, 2008 by Finchy Posted in Digital Music News | No Comments

iTunes is a store that is continually on the rise. RouteNote has been a partner of iTunes for the past 6 months and we are really starting to notice in our sales alone that iTunes is still growing at a rapid pace. Over at ReadWriteWeb they have a great article on iTunes and Apple creating [...]

China Mobile Has Over 80 Million Subscribers

August 28th, 2008 by Finchy Posted in Digital Music News | No Comments

China Mobile is one of the leading telecommunications companies within China, and they have released figures on Wednesday that stated they have more than 80 million subscribers to the M.Music Wireless Music Club. M.Music involves all four major labels and includes downloads, music videos, artist photos, ringtones, and even SMS-based magazines.  The service was launched [...]

New On The RouteNote Blog!

August 11th, 2008 by Finchy Posted in RN Maintenance | No Comments

Here on the RouteNote blog you will soon be seeing a lot more information about the general state and happenings within the digital music space. Look out for acquisitions, analysis and more news inside your favourite music sites. We want to not just keep all our artists informed about where they should be placing themselves [...]

RouteNote TV Session 3 - Ragged Trousered Philanthropists - The Great Money Trick

August 2nd, 2008 by Finchy Posted in RNTV | No Comments

Recently the Ragged Trousered Philanthropists play their song ‘The Great Money Trick’ for RNTV. We were going to put it onto Brightcove as normal, but still havent got around to it, so sit back and enjoy it on YouTube instead!