Our friends over at Next Big Sound have just released a ton of information on the state of online music in 2011. Unsurprisingly it’s doing very well. Numbers are up everywhere (even MySpace) and Next Big Sound has a purdy looking visualization to explain it all right here. Some quick facts: SoundCloud song plays had an amazing 231% increase/growth. And [...]
If you’re a Bandcamp user then you’ll probably enjoy this bit of news; Bandcamp is now offering a Facebook app/widget/plugin. Yay! The Bandcamp Facebook app puts all the functionality and content of your Bandcamp site into a tab within Facebook. The plugin will be a direct competitor with Root Music, the previous winner of Facebook music apps. [...]
It seems that every year CD Baby is around they make their products better and better. Their latest announcement about their one stop music shop is no different. With this little Facebook plugin you can do so many things that will make you money: It’s an easily added as a tab on your Facebook Band Page. You don’t [...]
The new Facebook Timeline is coming, or already here, depending on who you know. This will obviously cause much outcry from friends, but the new Facebook could be a good thing for bands. Mashable took a look at some of the changes: ..Timeline may have a similar effect on brands as well. ..will let companies [...]
Have you heard of Vibedeck.com It’s a start-up offering a pay for music app that can be plugged into your facebook page, YouTube channel, Grooveshark account, Soundcloud, and your own site. They are offering this all for free. No cut for them. Sounds too good to be true, but it looks like they’re in beta [...]
Have you heard about this 16 year old kid in the Czech Republic who’s facing a 5 million euro damages claim for linking to copyright works? It’s as ridiculous as it sounds. Now the Czech arm of the Pirate Party is coming to the kid’s defence, escalating their “Linking is Not A Crime” camping with their new project described [...]
It looks as though the tricks of the MySpace glory days are STILL being used by some bands today. The only difference is that the social network has changed. This type of behaviour doesn’t make any sense at all! In fact, I’d argue that those “tricks” are what drove people away from those social networks in [...]
Not too long ago there were reports that Spotify and Facebook were teaming up for something big. Now we’ve learned some of the details of their partnership that has/will result in Facebook music. GigaOM has recently reported on a number of the details of Facebook music. Facebook Music Features In the left-hand column, right where Facebook lists [...]
It appears that the rumors about Facebook and Google are true. They really don’t like each other. In fact recently: Facebook hired a prominent public relations firm to try to plant stories harshly criticizing Google’s privacy practices in leading news outlets. The efforts backfired when the firm approached a blogger who not only declined the [...]
Well January flew by and 2011 is moving at a brisk pace in spite of the Winter trying to slow us down. Just in case you may have missed some of the New Rockstar Philosophy talk we’ve decied to put up a monthly review of our top posts. MySpace Lays Off Half Of Work Force – Well [...]
