Simple pricing technique to increase physical music sales

Could a simple change in pricing strategy increase album sales?

Million Launch Marketing Campaign For Just Music

Million have launched a multi-tiered online ad campaign for Just Music to promote their new album, ‘Cafe Album Acoustic And Beats’.

MixTurtle.com Offers Quick Way To Search Music

MixTurtle.com offers a very fast search engine for music.

Coldplay Highlight The Continued Importance Of Email

Despite the rise of Social Networks, friend lists & bulletins, email remains one of the most important ways of communicating with fans.
Initially, in the early days, collecting emails was probably the number one reason for running a website. Nothing was done unless an email was collected.  In the last couple of years, with the rise [...]

BBC Launch The Sound Index

The BBC have just launched a Sound Index of “The Top 1000 Artists” based upon a 6-hourly scan of MySpace, iTunes, Google, Bebo, Last.fm and YouTube. The chart counts plays, profile views, comments and downloads to produce a Top 1000. Currently, Mariah Carey tops the inaugural chart followed by Britney, Leona, Rhianna and The Kooks. [...]

How Can Artists Use Wikipedia?

A recent report by Yahoo highlights how important Wikipedia is becoming to the artist/fan relationship. It quite rightly points out that Google will often return the top three search results as the artist site, the Myspace site and the Wikipedia site. And yet, for all the time artists spend updating MySpace very little is spent [...]

Free Music, Free Love, Free Free Free

Hot on the heels of my last post highlighting how the future of the music industry may lie in selling relationships, not selling tracks, this article by Trend Spotting highlights how the FREE giveaway is affecting all industries, not just music.
From newspapers (e.g. Metro), Telecoms (e.g. Skype), Airlines (e.g. Ryanair), the list also includes food, [...]