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Music News From Around the Web – Friday, June 18 2010

Posted on 18. Jun, 2010 by refe.

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A collection of the most important music industry news from last week from various sources across the internet.

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

Posted on 15. Jun, 2010 by refe.

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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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Music News from Around the Web – Friday May 28, 2010

Posted on 28. May, 2010 by refe.

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I’ve compiled a selection of some of the most important music industry news of 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. Music News from Around the Web If you can’t make money selling records, and you can’t [...]

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Album Sales Continue to Drop – Down 18% In May

Posted on 05. Jun, 2009 by refe.

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This shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone at this point, but album sales were down 17.8% in May over the same month in 2008, and 37.7% lower than May 2007. Not a great start to the weekend. This is bad news for the recording and music retail industries because there are still precious few within them who have truly begun exploring business models that rely less heavily on the sale of CDs and digital downloads.