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proving you can't trust the public with anything

Yahoo's Purple Award: The People's Choice Award For Nerds

Yahoo! has announced this year's recipients of the "is there anyway we can pawn this thing?" Purple Award. The Purple Award — signified by a large set of purple headphones, apparently — is given for any song that reaches ten million total views/streams/whatever across the Yahoo! family of sites. And the list of winners is like the pop mixtape from hell. The music business needs another award like they need a new Bluegrass Tribute to the Shins disc, but if nothing else, the Purple Award allows you to look down on other people's taste. More »

10:30 AM on Fri Jun 13 2008
By Dan Gibson
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Latest by Dan Gibson: @Al Shipley: Well, slightly more popular last year than her previous catalog (and "Ain't No Other Man" which was second), at least. This year, this ship has righted itself slightly and "Beautiful" is the most played. more »

A 58% year-to-year increase in monthly unique visitors has resulted in imeem becoming the No. 1 destination for streaming music on the Web, according to statistics collected by compete.com in March 2008; the former No. 1, Yahoo! Music, slipped to No. 2 on a 14% year-to-year dip (9.6 million). Coming in at No. 7 on the Compete countdown with 2.3 million uniques: HM1500, a shorthand term for the aggregate unique-visitor traffic of more than 1,500 music blogs tracked by the Hype Machine. (The Machine itself is at No. 16.) One glaring omission from Compete's list: YouTube, which I use for streaming much, much more than any of the sites in the top 20. (I know, I know, pulling music-only data out is a pain in the butt, but they're an analytics company! They can analyze!) [Compete.com]

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the law

ASCAP To Online Music Services: Pay Up Like The Judge Told You To

Yesterday, a judge ruled that RealNetworks, AOL, and Yahoo! had to pay the American Society of Composers, Arrangers, and Performer 2.5% of "adjusted music-use revenue" between 2002 and 2009. That's half a percentage point higher than what terrestrial radio stations have to pay to the organization, a decision that U.S. District Judge William C. Conner came to because online radio generally plays more songs per hour than its over-the-air The three companies—who had proposed rates ranging from .9% (for music videos) to 2.5% (for on-demand audio)—could owe as much as $100 million to ASCAP as the result of the decision, and needless to say, they are not very pleased. More »

6:00 PM on Thu May 1 2008
By Maura Johnston
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Latest by n/a: This is great news for songwriters/music publishers. Music is being accessed by listeners on the internet at a growing rate but for some reason, very few are fighting to get the same public performance rights that they have through more »

Yahoo! is shutting down its subscription-music service Yahoo! Music Unlimited and migrating whatever users the all-you-can-hear site has left over to Rhapsody. [WSJ]

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Yahoo! and AOL may shut down their Internet-radio services, which have become a pricey proposition for the two online companies because of the 38% royalty increase mandated by SoundExchange. "Yahoo and AOL stopped directing users to their radio sites after SoundExchange, the Washington-based group representing artists and record labels, began collecting the higher fees in July.... As a result, the number of people using Launchcast fell 11 percent to 5.1 million in October, according to ComScore. AOL Radio users declined 10 percent to 2.7 million from 3 million." [Bloomberg]

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the new model

Yahoo! VP Dumps Cold Water On Majors' Dreams Of Subscription-Based Music

After the Rick Rubin article where the famed producer/Columbia Records head talked dreamily about getting all the major labels together to offer a subscription service that would allow people to pay for music at a set rate, then access it as much as they wanted. But Ian Rogers of Yahoo! Music—who has a bit of experience with a concept similar to Rubin's—is not impressed by the idea, and he said so to attendees at last week's Digital Music Forum West conference: More »

8:54 AM on Tue Oct 9 2007
By mjohnston
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Latest by It Must Be Take a Worm for a Walk Week: I have YMU; I love it. I'm listening to PSB's "Disco 2" album right now. more »

Those rumored changes that have been coming to Yahoo! Music? No word on whether the download service will be shuttered yet, but apparently they'll involve "more synergies between our music, games, movies, TV, and omg! properties, making them more personal and engaging for entertainment hounds." Yes, that's right—more synergies between the music department and the hot pink post-verbal paparazzi site omg!, which can only result in one thing: Furthering the lie that people actually still give a shit about Joel Madden's "music" "career." [paidContent]

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Could the imminent restructuring at Yahoo! result in the Internet giant's music division being radically restructured, or even shut down? Maybe! Or maybe not. [Hypebot]

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