Napster & Sonos Deliver Instant Access To Millions Of Songs All Over the House
LOS ANGELES, CA. (Top40 Charts/ Napster) - Napster, LLC, the industry's leading music subscription service, and Sonos, Inc., the leading developer of wireless multi-room music systems for the digital home, today announced the release of new software which lets Sonos Digital Music System customers instantly ...
| Wapple Helps MTV To Take Europe Music Awards Mobile
LONDON, UK. (Top40 Charts/ Wapple) - Wapple (https://wapple.net) has created and is powering the mobile internet site for the prestigious MTV Europe Music Awards 2007 (MTV EMA) that take place in Munich on the 1 November. With most of the awards voted for by MTV viewers, the mobile site has been designed ...
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SpiralFrog Signs Licensing Agreement With Sony/ATV Music Publishing
NEW YORK, NY. (Top40 Charts/ SpiralFrog) - SpiralFrog, Inc., (www.spiralfrog.com) the free ad-supported Web-based music experience, and Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, one of the world's leading music publishers, today announced a licensing agreement to make one of the world's premier collections of ...
| Billboard & iLike Collaborate To Produce The First-Ever Social Media Based Music Charts
NEW YORK, NY. (Top40 Charts/ Billboard PR) - Billboard, the world's premiere music chart provider, and iLike, the Web's leading social music discovery service and the dominant music application on Facebook Platform, have teamed up to create the first social media based music charts drawing from the ...
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Recording Industry applauds launch of negotiations aimed at producing new enforcement agreement
Brussels, Belgium (Top 40 Charts/ IFPI) - IFPI warmly welcomed today's announcement by EU Trade Commissioner, Peter Mandelson, that the EU, US, Japan and Switzerland are launching negotiations towards a new agreement to strengthen the enforcement of intellectual property rights. Music is one of the ...
| British and Dutch police raids shut down the world's largest pre-release pirate music site
London, UK. (Top40 Charts/ IFPI) - British and Dutch police today shut down the world's biggest source of illegal pre-release chart albums and arrested a 24-year old man in an operation coordinated between Middlesbrough and Amsterdam. The raids, which were coordinated by Interpol, follow a two-year ...
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Musicares & The Grammy Foundation Elect New Officers And New Directors
SANTA MONICA, CA. (Top40 Charts/ Recording Academy) - The GRAMMY Foundation and MusiCares Foundation, affiliated charities of The Recording Academy, announced that their respective Boards have elected new Officers as well as additional Directors. John Branca, a partner at Ziffren, Brittenham, Branca, ...
| AT&T Gives Free Instant Music Delivery From Napster Mobile
SAN ANTONIO, TX. (Top40 Charts/ AT&T) - Make that song running through your head run instantly through your wireless phone. AT&T Inc. today announced that wireless customers will soon be able to download more than 5 million full-track songs over the air from Napster, the industry's leading digital music ...
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Asia-Pacific Tunes Into Unlimited Music Downloads With MusicStation Launch In Hong Kong
HONG KONG, CHINA (Top 40 Charts/ Omnifone) - Mobile music company Omnifone, today announces the first rollout of its award-winning unlimited music downloads service, MusicStation, in Asia-Pacific with Hutchison Telecommunications (Hong Kong) Limited's mobile operation 3 Hong Kong. 3 MusicStation will ...
| KOCH Sets Up KOCH Urban South and Names Big Oomp to Head the Division
NEW YORK, NY. (Top40 Charts/ KOCH Records) - KOCH Records announces the extension and broadening of its existing deal with Atlanta's Big Oomp Records. The multi-year deal will cover North America. The two labels have already had great success together. The release of DJ Unk's debut album "Beat'n Down ...
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KEF Introduces Extraordinary Limited Edition MUON Speakers
NEW YORK, NY. (Top40 Charts/ KEF) - KEF, renowned British manufacturer of audiophile-quality speakers, launches MUON - a distinctly new loudspeaker that features audio innovation and cutting edge, ultra modern luxury design. The U.S. product launch took place at Esquire North: The New View. Esquire ...
| Hudson Entertainment and Syntax Distribution Announce Exclusive Mobile Music Deal
REDWOOD SHORES, CA. (Top40 Charts/ Hudson Entertainment) - Continuing its practice of bringing all genres of popular music to the mobile market, Hudson Entertainment announced today an exclusive deal with Syntax Distribution to distribute ringtones, ringbacks, full-length tracks and videos from the ...
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PARROT Ramps Up Its Marketing Actions In The Music World
PARIS, France (Top 40 Charts/ Parrot SA) - PARROT, the market leader for wireless mobile phone devices, is positioning itself on the music market at the end of this year, joining forces with today's biggest artists to promote its growing range of wireless speakers, and more specifically the PARROT PARTY, ...
| International Songwriting Competition Teams Up With MyTune
NEW YORK, NY. (Top40 Charts/ MyTune PR) - MyTune.com is proud to tell you about their industry partnership with the International Songwriting Competition (ISC) where lyricists can present their song writing skills to people like Tom Waits, Julian Casablancas (The Strokes), Frank Black (Pixies), and ...
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iTunes Plus Now Offers Over Two Million Tracks At Just 99 Cents
CUPERTINO, CA. (Top40 Charts/ Apple) - Apple today announced that it has expanded its iTunes Plus offering to over two million tracks and lowered the price of all iTunes Plus tracks to just 99 cents. All iTunes Plus tracks feature DRM-free music with high quality 256 kbps AAC encoding for audio quality ...
| Groove Mobile Partners With Redeye Distribution To Increase Its Library Of Independent Music
NEW YORK, NY. (Top40 Charts/ Groove Mobile) - Groove Mobile, the world's leading mobile music service provider, today announced at CMJ Music Marathon & Film Festival a worldwide licensing deal with Redeye Distribution, a leading digital distributor dedicated to marketing and promoting independent media. ...
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MySpace and SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT Sign New Licensing Pact
LOS ANGELES, CA. & NEW YORK, NY. (Top40 Charts/ SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT) - MySpace, the world's most popular social network, announced today it has signed a new licensing agreement with SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT to enable MySpace's 70 million U.S. monthly active users to experience streaming ...
| Music Nation & Bug Music / Windswept Announce Strategic Joint Venture Partnership to Discover and Sign Artists to Publishing Deals
NEW YORK, NY. (Top40 Charts/ Music Nation) - Music Nation (www.MusicNation.com), the online home for independent music, today announced the launch of a unique joint venture with Bug Music / Windswept (www.BugMusic.com), the largest North American independent music publisher. Music Nation with their ...
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Live Nation's Artist Nation Division Redefines The Music Industry With Unified Rights Model
LOS ANGELES, CA. (Top40 Charts/ Live Nation) - Live Nation President and Chief Executive Officer, Michael Rapino announced today the structure behind its Artist Nation division. The new division was formed to partner with artists to manage their diverse rights, grow their fan bases and provide a direct ...
| Largest Sector in the Music Industry Takes Large Role in CMJ 2007 Panel Discussions
NEW YORK (Top40 Charts/ By Tiffany Shipp/ Sunshine, Sachs & Associates) - Indie bands aren't the only CMJ participants in the spotlight this year as members of the American Association of Independent Music (A2IM) speak out on over twenty different panels at the CMJ 2007 Music Marathon & Film Festival ...
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