Category: Sales/Marketing
Facebook Among Most Popular Android Apps
A new study by Nielsen shows which apps have the greatest “active reach” among Android owners […]
Category: Exclusive, Featured, Sales/Marketing, Weekend
Lost Highway Projects Top Year-End Americana Chart
The Americana Music Association has released its Top 100 Albums of the Year, based on albums reported to the Americana Airplay Chart between Nov. 16, 2010 and Nov. 14, 2011. UMG’s Lost Highway lands the top two spots on the list with Hayes Carll’s KMAG YOYO hitting No. 1, and Lucinda Williams’ Blessed at No. […]
Category: Artist, Featured, Radio, Sales/Marketing
Keek Provides a New Social Platform
Social media users can now add Keek, a micro video platform, to their arsenal […]
Category: Artist, Featured, Sales/Marketing
Grooveshark Faces Legal Action
Online listening service Grooveshark could find itself without safe harbor, thanks to pending legal action […]
Category: Featured, Sales/Marketing
Live Nation Uncorks BigChampagne Data
BigChampagne, the data farm that has been a pioneer in developing metrics to gauge online music use involving peer-to-peer traffic, has been acquired […]
Category: Featured, Sales/Marketing
Martina’s “Hits and More” Due In January
RCA Records Nashville will release Hits and More, a twenty-song collection from Martina McBride […]
Category: Artist, Featured, Sales/Marketing
Nimbit Reports Spotlight Boosting Facebook Sales
Nimbit.com reports that its direct-to-fan platform has been showing strong growth in terms of Facebook sales for artists and bands. According to VP of Marketing Carl Jacobson, the trend started about 15 months ago when, “We began to see a sharp uptick in the percentage of direct sales that were coming from our artists’ Facebook […]
Category: Artist, Featured, Label, Sales/Marketing
Weak Release Slate Puts Coal In Country Sales Stockings
Like turning lemons to lemonade, it’s coal dust soufflé when you receive lumps of the black rocks in your holiday stocking. And that’s exactly what country sales departments will be forced to munch as consumers shop their way through the final three weeks of 2011. […]
Category: Artist, Featured, Label, Sales/Marketing
Top 2012 PR Trends
…ideas about how PR firms will work with their clients in the coming year. One theme which travels throughout the article is “engagement.” […]
Category: Artist, Exclusive, Featured, Sales/Marketing
Alan Jackson Viral Campaign Earns Award Nomination
Alan Jackson, Capitol Records Nashville and Eventful have earned a nomination for Viral Campaign of the Year at the fifth annual […]
Category: Artist, Featured, Sales/Marketing
Black Keys’ El Camino Not Licensed For Streaming Services
Nashville-via-Akron rockers The Black Keys released their seventh full-length album El Camino (Nonesuch) last week to some seriously high expectations […]
Category: Artist, Featured, Sales/Marketing
