Social-music company iLike, which got a boost… MORE »
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Why Tech Types Should Never Write About The Music Business, Part XXVIII
A note to whoever put together the “35 Places To Download Free, Legal MP3s” listicle I just found on DownloadSquad: I get it. Your readers are a bunch of mouth-breathing brats who want nothing more than to satiate their seemingly endless appetite for music without actually making an effort to obtain that music beyond right-clicking, and maybe having a wank over the greatness of Trent Reznor from time to time. And you need to cater to, and occasionally pander to, those tendencies. Fine. That’s the world we live in now, for better or worse. But. MORE »
R.E.M.’s Accelerate will stream on iLike, the iTunes-tracker-slash-Facebook-app that I uninstalled long ago, beginning on March 24. MORE »
Universal Music Group Pulls Its Streams From iLike
Continuing its trend of pulling its music from online services that won’t pay it heed–or at least a nice chunk of money–Universal Music Group has yanked 30-second sound samples of its labels’ songs from iLike, the music-sharing site that’s quite popular with the Facebook set. According to Silicon Alley Insider, the dispute stems from a lapsed agreement between UMG and the sound-sample middleman Muze, which supplied iLike with UMG’s streams. So now iLike and Universal are trying to hammer out some sort of deal that will restore the label’s audio to the service, a deal which, if precedent is any indication, will likely involve iLike cutting some sort of punishing check to Doug Morris and his merry band of shmoos. All that, just so some sophomore at UW-Whitewater can keep introducing himself to prospective conquests with “In Da Club.” MORE »
Do You Like iLike?
Over the past couple of days, we’ve noticed an upsurge in press for iLike, the music-networking site that’s apparently gone from 1 million users to 6 million users over the past month, thanks to its being included in the initial suite of applications offered by the social-networking site Facebook,… MORE »
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Ticketmaster Hoping To Dictate Music Fans’ Choices In An Entirely New Way
Today’s Wall Street Journal reports that ticketing behemoth Ticketmaster has agreed to buy a 25% stake in the music-recommendation service iLike.com. MORE »
