David Emery OnlineLast.fm: Free music streams turn into increased music sales
Guess what? Listening to music makes people want to buy music. Who’d have thought it?
Visit ➔The MySpace Deal
Bob hits the nail on the head here – a year ago the MySpace music deal would have been interesting but in today’s market it’s quite pedestrian.
Visit ➔Apple passes Wal-Mart, now #1 music retailer in US
It’s pretty remarkable that a once ailing computer company can move into such an established market and completely dominate it so quickly.
Visit ➔Next to Last.fm
I’d love an interface for Last.fm that works for tracks I just ‘hear’ (not play) – using Twitter sounds like a good way of making it work.
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Interscope Joins $25M Buzznet Investment Round
This is quite interesting, especially when you consider that Buzznet bought Stereogum recently.
Visit ➔Rockstar and Amazon bring digital music distribution to GTA4
I think video games are becoming an ever more relevant resource for promoting and selling music, although this system sounds a little clumsy. What we be much more interesting would be if you could buy direct in-game and have the track downloaded to your PC automatically. That would probably be a little tricky with Amazon, but Apple handle a pretty similar thing with the iTunes store on the iPhone…
Also, instead of getting an email with a playlist in it would be much better to have Last.fm scrobbling support in game – that would be a very welcome development.
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