Rhapsody has announced their music streaming service is now available in Germany and the UK via their Napster deal. A few months ago it was announced that Rhapsody acquired Napster, but that was for the US assets, thus they needed to signed a deal with the remaining Napster service in Europe.
Spotify is yet to launch in Germany to compete with Napster and Simfy, but this is expected to change very soon!
Lots of users have been asking if they can sell their cover songs on iTunes.
If your track is on the PRS database you are able to cover that track and sell the music in the UK. However, if its not on the PRS databse you will need to find out who own the copyright to that music and try to obtain a license.
PJ Harvey has confirmed the release of a new album at the start of February. The new album is called Let England Shake and will come out on February 14 through Island Records.
The album was recorded in a 19th Century church in Dorset with long time collaborator Flood, who co-produced the record along with Harvey and John Parish. As you’d also expect, with the album comes live shows.
The advertising watchdog in Britain has banned the Beyonce perfume advertisement. It can now only be shown after 7.30pm.
The ad features Beyonce not wearing to much, but it doesnt really seem that bad. Check it out below and let us know what you think!
Since the release of RouteNotes’ Premium option we have seen great growth! RouteNote is already the largest independent digital music distributor in the UK.
When we first launched our Premium platform we ran a one off promotion that allowed artists to upload their albums for a one time fee and keep 100% of the revenues. Now we are about to head into the Christmas season, so we thought we would offer the promotion again!
The Offer:
Artists pay a Flat ONE TIME fee and keep 100% of the revenues.
$10 single, $20 EP, $30 album and $45 ext. album.
The Christmas promotion will last until the 1st of December so you must hurry!
All you need to do is signup and choose our Premium service. No codes required. Artists will receive all of RouteNote’s great partners, as well as free UPC and ISRC codes, and keep all 100% of their revenues! This promotion is only available for new content added to RouteNote.
Titus Andronicus have just announced that they will be touring the UK later this year.
November:
17 – The Albert, Brighton
18 – Haymakers, Cambridge
19 – Cooler, Bristol
20 – Bodega, Nottingham
21 – Salford Lad’s Club, Manchester
23 – Oran Mor, Glasgow
24 – Harley, Sheffield
25 – Scala, London
26 – Academy 2, Liverpool
27 – Whealans, Dublin
Ticket details are still unknown, but Im sure you will find them in all good ticketing outlets very soon.
Edwyn Collins is set to release a new single called Losing Sleep. Losing Sleep will come out in the UK on September 13, through Heavenly Records. The single also has the same title as the album. Below is the video for the single, it was directed by Kieran Evans, filmed on location at The 100 Club and West Heath Studios.
UK major label EMI this week railed against Apple’s iTunes in the body of its latest annual financial statement.
EMI are unanimous in their praise for Apple’s achievements in online music sales, but resent the huge slice of the music sales market the company has carved out. In other words they want Apple to be a large player in the online music space, but they want to see a few other services step up and compete with them on marketshare. Apple is now the biggest music retailer in the US for both the digital market and the overall music market.
This gives Apple too much control, label bosses feel. Now EMI has found this sufficiently significant to warn that a key risk to the music industry is:
“The substantial dependence on a limited number of online music stores, in particular the iTunes Store, for the online sale of music recordings, and the resultant significant influence that they can exert over the pricing structure for online music stores.”
This warning was included within the company’s most recent financial statement, in which the label confirmed continued decline in CD sales, but said digital revenues now accounted for 8.1 percent of music publishing revenues, up from 7.4 percent in the same period last year.
There are a lot of distributors out there that claim they are unique because they can help you get your music in the charts. Some of the distributors even charge money to do this. Most bands don’t even realise that they can do this all themselves for FREE! Any distributor that charges for a service like this is simply just ripping you off.
Here is a step by step guide on how to get your music chart eligible for the UK.
Thats it!
Make sure that you never pay any money to distributors for this service, because anyone can get access to the PPL Repertoire database for FREE.
For more information check out the Offical charts website.
MyToyBox is the brainchild of 19 year-old Matt Nash who started his career as a singer of a metal band but became a pop convert. MyToyBox has released their first track from their debut album called It’s The Weekend. The MyToyBox album is scheduled for release this October on Jive Records (Sony).
“I suddenly was surrounded by all this upbeat, fun music and realized that there’s nothing quite like a euphoric pop chorus to really make a night,” he explains in a press release.
“It was like a lightbulb moment where I figured out that’s the type of music that makes you forget any problems and just have an amazing time. Trying to write a chorus like that myself took a little while, but fingers crossed I’ve cracked it.”
