Twitter connects itself to Apple Ping

Twitter, the Microblogging website, has said that it will link it with Apple Inc's new music-oriented social network, Ping (reports Reuters). Launched in September, Ping, works within Apple's iTunes music program and lets users follow artists and recommend songs to their chosen circle of friends.

with the connect, Twitter's more than 175 million registered users can now connect their accounts to Ping and put song previews and links to buy music from the iTunes store directly in their messages ( called "tweets").

Notably Apple's efforts to have a similar deal with Facebook failed in September. ---------

Announcements , Apple , Legal Music download , Social Networking , Twitter

Twitter connects itself to Apple Ping

Anil Singh Friday, November 12, 2010

Share of Apple in digital music download sales in the United States

Although Google leads the search market with 72 out of every 100 searches; But when it comes to music, Apple, is the leader. According to NPD Group , Apple commands 70 percent of digital music download sales in the United States.

While Apple has no presence in online search (yet), both Microsoft and Google are competing with Apple on the rapidly growing mobile platform -- Google with Android and Microsoft with the new Windows Series 7. ---------

Legal Music download , Numbers

Share of Apple in digital music download sales in the United States

Anil Singh Tuesday, July 6, 2010

Growth in digital revenues boost 2009 UK music royalties

British songwriters, composers and music publishers earned 623 million pounds ($944.8 million) in royalties in 2009. This is 2.6 percent more from what they earned in 2008 (607 million pounds). What is notable is, it’s the first time the growth in digital revenues outperformed the drop in CD and DVD earnings.

The global music business has been shrinking steadily in recent years, marred by online piracy and the rapid decline in physical format sales like CDs. And till now the online piracy and decline in physical format sales has far exceeded the rapid growth in legal digital revenues(or legal digital downloads). The year 2009 for the first time threw an exception in this regard; when the growth in revenues from the legal digital market compensated for the decline in revenues from traditional CDs and DVDs.In 2009 online revenues grew 73 percent, or 12.8 million pounds to 30.4 million pounds, while earnings from CDs and DVDs fell by 8.7 million pounds.

But despite the growth in digital revenues in 2009, legal digital revenues still represent a small proportion of the overall market. ---------

Legal Music download

Growth in digital revenues boost 2009 UK music royalties

Anil Singh Monday, March 15, 2010

HP launches MusicStation in Europe Today

Hewlett-Packard, the world's biggest maker of PCs, launches a digital music service across key European markets today. HP hopes to benefit from consumers' rising appetite for new types of music download services.

Named MusicStation, the service will be preloaded on 16 of HP's personal computer models in Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Netherlands, Belgium and Austria.

MusicStation has been developed and is managed by British digital music firm Omnifone (A similar HP service in United States is developed and managed by RealNetworks' Rhapsody.

MusicStations will be competigng with services like Apple's iTunes. iTunes -- with a pay-per-download business model -- is the leading digital music distributor.

Pricing:
A Consumer will have to pay about 10 euros ($14.13) a month for access to all music in HP's service and, keep 10 tracks each month.
Although they can try the service for free for 14 days.

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Announcements , Legal Music download

HP launches MusicStation in Europe Today

Anil Singh Monday, January 25, 2010