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And the Winners of the Free MySpace Redesign Give-Away Are…

Posted on 16. Jun, 2010 by refe.

Announcing the winners of the MySpace Redesign contest, plus a special rate for the first 10 Creative Deconstruction readers to sign up for an account. Details after the jump!

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Do Viral Music Videos Sell Records? A Closer Look at OK Go

Posted on 15. Jun, 2010 by refe.

OK Go had some mild success with their self-titled debut album, but they remained relatively unknown until their first hit video ‘Here it Goes Again‘ blew up on YouTube in 2005. The album was called Oh No, and sold around 200k copies. By contrast, Of the Blue Colour of the Sky has only managed to sell 20k copies, despite not one, but TWO viral music videos for ‘This Too Shall Pass.’

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Win a Free Chance to Transform Your MySpace Page Into Something that Doesn’t Suck

Posted on 13. Jun, 2010 by refe.

MySpace360Wizard is a new tool designed to help bands brand and optimize their MySpace pages. Find out below how to win one of 5 FREE access codes.
Every band has a MySpace page. Unfortunately, 99% of those pages suck.
When it comes to out-of-the-box usability, MySpace ranks far, far below its more attractive cousins, Facebook and Twitter. [...]

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New Music Streaming Service Rdio: How Does it Stack Up?

Posted on 07. Jun, 2010 by refe.

Rdio is a brand new streaming music service from the creators of Skype and Kazaa that is currently in private beta. Trials are currently invitation only. For information on free invitations please see below.
This is certainly an interesting time to be launching a music streaming service. Today, Monday, June 7th is the first day [...]

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Music News From Around the Web – June 4, 2010

Posted on 04. Jun, 2010 by refe.

I’ve compiled a selection of some of the most important music industry news and commentary the past week, along with a few of my own thoughts. Let me know in the comments section if you think I’ve missed anything notable.
Public Enemy Cut Their Sellaband Target to $75k
Hip-hop legends Public Enemy burst onto the crowd-funding scene [...]

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Andrew Dubber, the Future of Music, and Extensive Use of the Word ‘Balls’

Posted on 03. Jun, 2010 by refe.

The following colorful rant is brought to you courtesy of Andrew Dubber, Reader in Music Industries Innovation at Birmingham City University, Bandcamp advisor and new music industry thinker. It consists of a series of Twitter updates with his reactions to a roundtable discussion that he participated in along with Gerd Leonhard. I’ve shared it here [...]

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Music and Tech Recap – May 2010 Edition

Posted on 03. Jun, 2010 by Gabriel Nijmeh.

Google held their annual I/O developer conference over two days in May where they (and their partners) announced a number of new initiatives including Google TV, mSpot, a music streaming/syncing service for the Android and their acquisition of Simplify Media, which allows streaming of locally-stored media to Android devices.
Next up is Apple’s annual developer’s conference [...]

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What Do At&t’s New Bandwidth Caps Mean for ‘iTunes in the Cloud?’

Posted on 02. Jun, 2010 by refe.

Apple and At&t are like the couple where the beautiful girl hooks up with the creepy, overweight older guy. Sure he makes a decent sugar daddy, but none of the girl’s friends can quite understand how she can still stomach the guy all these years later.
In yet another move that has put their customers in [...]

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What does it take to earn a living with digital music?

Posted on 02. Jun, 2010 by refe.

I’m sure many of you have seen this already, but it’s just too good not to share. Below is a beautiful info-graphi.c that breaks down the amount of music in various digital formats that a single artist would have to sell in order to meet the US minimum wage in a given month.

As you can [...]

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