MySpace just added a brand new cool service to the social networking site.
You can now buy tickets to see your favourite band through their profile pages. The updated site also now includes a calendar tool so that fans can follow when tours and concert are happening and when new record releases are scheduled.
This ‘MySpace Events platform’ also allows you to check your friend’s calendar to see what shows they are planning on going to. When one of your friend buys a ticket, a notification will tell you about it.
MySpace will take a cut of all ticket sales. It currently has a database of around 1 million shows happening this year.
It’s a smart move from MySpace, since they have been struggling to catch up with other social network like Facebook and Twitter. This new service is going to get a lot of attraction, we would think!
Nokia, the global mobile music leaders are today launching a new market in China. A project called ‘Comes With Music’, it’s the first market to get DRM-free version of the ‘all-you-can eat’ music service, a service that lets mobile phone users legally access, download and listen to an unlimited amount of music, any time, anywhere with no extra charge for data for a weekly fee of £1.99 . With Nokia’s new service it’s the first time people will be able to sign up to the service without buying a brand new handset if they already own a Nokia mobile.
Nokia’s goal here is to crack the challenge of promoting legal music in China, where privacy remains strong. Nokia’s director of global music Adam Mirabella says, ‘This marketplace is begging for a legal opportunity. They’re all looking for somebody with a strong footprint and presence, to see if there’s something they can do to build the business back’.
The question remains though, will Nokia transfer the ‘Comes With Music’ model to other countries around the world, and will this be a step forward in combating music piracy? Only time will tell!
This new web service named ‘Kroogi’ is going to please you.
You can now support your favorite artist when you download and checkout music and art on ‘Kroogi’, it’s also the best place to discover great new content by a variety of different ‘artists’ and donate to support them as you see appropriate.
Kroogi is a “content community” for artists, musicians, writers, videographers and photographers. While iTunes, Amazon and other digital retailers charge fixed rates for their music, ‘Kroogi’ allows you to pay whatever you feel a piece of content is worth, and creators are given tools to try and prove its value.
Another good point is that you can discover new artists, review them and help them get noticed by giving them exposure.
No more fixed prices, you can now choose how much you want to give. Quite a smart new service!
Create your account now and start contributing to the music and art industry. And if you’re an artist get yourself noticed now!
You’ve had a song in your head since this morning but you don’t know the title of it? It happened to all of us and it’s so frustrating, right?
With this new music search tool you will finally be able to find answers. You just need to sing, hum or whistle as you wish and ‘Midomi’ will recognise and instantly find your obsessive song!
But there is much more to it, you can create your own profile, make friends, sing your favourite songs and share them with other ‘Midomi’ users. You can also listen to and rate others musical performances and of course so can they. Your performance could be the next top result!
It’s also an extensive digital music store with a growing collection of more than two million legal music tracks. You can purchase them right on the site or play them on your laptop.
Quite a cool site that could come in handy! The service is also available as an iPhone app which could be useful if you’re too impatient to get to your computer.
Ok 2012 is still far away but London has so much to do until then, to be fully prepared for the Olympics.
At least the music part is nearly settled. The music industry will be heavily involved in a 12 week festival and the four opening and closing ceremonies around the Olympics in 2012.
The Festival will run from June 21 to September 9 2012 and artists from around the world will be featuring in UK’s cities. There will be a diversified programme of everything from pop to rock, fashion and theatre during the Festival. And starting January 2012 there will be a series of exciting concert across the UK to tee up the main festival.
Of course other music related events are expected for the closing and the opening ceremonies of the Paralympics.
London in 2012 is not only going to deliver great sport but also awesome music!
Who doesn’t take a look at Youtube at least once a day? We all do, it has became a routine, just to check out the latest movie trailer, music video of your favourite band or the daily scoop. Youtube has so many different categories mashed up together that basically any kind of topic can be find.
A study has been made by the research company Sysomos, to know which of the categories is the most watched. Well it appears that Music is the most popular category, accounting for 30.7% of all views on the video service. The music industry might be keen to know that that the main social group embedding video are bloggers aged between 20-35, accounting for 57.3% of all links
Of course this comes after Vevo, Youtube and Google’s premium music video channel.
Another study shows that Universal and Sony delivers an average 30m streams a day in the US.
Moreover earlier this year, comScore said that 92% of Vevo’s 35.4m visitors in December in the US actually came via YouTube rather than through Vevo’s own landing page.
So here are the main content categories on YouTube in order of popularity:
Tired of always checking out the same old websites? Want a way to make it a bit more fun?
Well with Codeorgan, a new web application, you can have your favourite sites turned translated into music. Confused??? Well read on!
What it does is analyses the body content of any site and follows an algorithm to determine the key, synth style and drum pattern that fits the site’s page best. You can then play back what your web site would sound like as a piece of music via “Play this website” button.
If you enjoyed the result you can share it the composition on Facebook and Twitter and make your friends wonder what you’ve been up to.
We know this web app is not going to change your life, but it’s worth trying and is just a bit of fun. It will take your mind off things for at least a few minutes in a musical way!
Here is how our Chatterbox blog sounds like: http://www.codeorgan.com/?url=chatterboxworldwide.com
Your turn!
Reckon you could give Simon Cowell a run for his money? Well UK music startup the Bizmo has launched a new Facebook application called “Hit Or Not”, giving you the chance to try your hand at being an A&R scout.
To join in just start picking out your favourite musical genre and let Hit or Not do it’s thing. Only tracks from your requested genre and from theBizmo’s catalogue will be played. The interesting part however is that you’ll only hear independent artists, giving you the chance to really say whether you think they’ve got what it takes to make it or not.
You can even create your own company and the success of it all depends on your music skills and how good you are at finding talent. You will have to buy hit songs and sell them as they fall on the charts. The hard part is that you’ll have to judge if it’s a hit song on a 30 second track.
25 Years ago, I recorded the song “19”. The idea came about whilst watching a documentary which highlighted the plight of young men and women who fought in Vietnam.
“In World War 2 the average age of the combat soldier was 26, in Vietnam he was 19” these words really made me stop and think.
When I first approached Chrysalis Records with the Demo of “19” most people there didn’t believe it would get any attention as there would be no interest from the media, and I quote “the public don’t want to hear a song about war”.
Two people thought otherwise, the promotions guy Ken Grunbaum, and Simon Fuller who was working for the Company at the time. I gave the record company an ultimatum, either release “19” as my first record or I would not sign with them.
As luck would have it they agreed, and within three weeks “19” was at the top of the charts in 13 different countries and Simon became my Manager, he later went on to name his company after the song.
At the time it all seemed a long way from home as Vietnam was an American war, but now it seems “history is repeating itself”.
It’s now the 25th anniversary since the release of “19”, only this time the documentary I am watching is about the British soldiers who would be serving in Afghanistan. I hear the words “I looked at my Men, The average age was 19, my god I’m taking boys to war”, It was unbelievable, almost the same words that gave me the original idea to record “19”, this was all sounding too familiar.
I had it in my mind to do a remix for the 25th anniversary of the original track but after hearing that, I felt it would almost be an insult not to mention the British and others, who have lost their lives in recent years whilst doing their duty so I rewrote the song completely.
This time the song is written from the perspective of how I would see things if I was in the position of a young Soldier being sent off to war.
What’s interesting is the fact that a few years earlier I was approached by the BBC to remake 19 to be included in their TV programme “Power to the People” which highlighted the fact that there were no British hospitals for soldiers returning from duty.
At the time I declined, but having listened to the Soldiers and even high ranking army officials from several TV documentaries, it appears that there are many who are unsure that the way we are going about things is the right way,
Some even believe this can easily become another Vietnam scenario which would be a catastrophe for all involved, I’m not here to preach or impose my opinion on anyone and like with the original record I leave you to make up your own minds.
I am no anti government crusader, but take a look at the video trailer , the similarities between Vietnam and Afghanistan are quite alarming to say the least.
Luckily for me, In America I have been fortunate to have sold more records over the last decade than when 19 was at it’s peak so this is something that I don’t need to do, But on the other hand It’s something I feel I should do.
This is the last time I will ever revisit this song so I hope you like and understand what really are THE FINAL ever versions of “19″.
Paul Hardcastle – Feb 2010
A voice in my head is saying welcome to hell,
Will I get to survive I‘ve got no way to tell,
I’m in a situation where one of us dies
I get a stone cold stare from my enemies eyes,
A voice in my head is saying kill or be killed
But my mind is numb and my blood is chilled,
There’s bodies all around they lie on the ground
And all I hear is silence, and it’s a deafening sound
A voice in my head is saying this ain’t a game
If I survive this Hell I will never be the same,
Should I be here? I can’t say for sure,
If I don’t understand what I’m fighting for
If you are accustomed with Spotify, you may be getting a quite bored with their choices of music.
Let’s be honest, Spotify has a limited choice of tracks from a chosen artist and has to face real competition from other services.
Good news though, Spotify has announced that it is launching new artist discovery features in its desktop client, including a new Related Artists tab to help users find more music they might like.
It’s based on a recommendation engine built in-house by Spotify’s R&D team, based on millions of user listening hours.
Thanks to his, fans can now dig down much deeper into the Spotify catalogue.
