music industry

I joined a new social networking site the other day. It's called Crewspace, and it's similar to MySpace, but less cluttered and meant for road crews to socialize with each other. As they put it:

City Starts To Seize Music Row Property

The Financial Times has reported that Terra Firma is considering Elio Leoni Sceti, whose tenure with consumer products company Reckitt Benckiser was preceded by a stint at Proctor & Gamble, to run EMI's recorded music division. Mr.

Via Music Row:

Gee Whiz. Get a virus and spend the weekend trying to irradicate the same, and all hell breaks loose.

A University of Hertfordshire has found the iPod of the average UK teen or student has 842 illegal tracks. The average number of songs on each digital music player is 1,770, meaning each player has 52% legally acquired songs.

The Wall Street Journal's Ethan Smith has an article that just went up about executive in-fighting at Live Nation over its strategy of signing top artists to top-dollar, multi-rights deals. Give it a read.

Well, of course I had to hit “play” to see what the fuss was about. And wouldn’t you know that as the opening thrums of Warren’s chords flashed through my brain I first felt joy, then despair.

• EMI has added Cory Ondrejka, a co-founder of the online virtual reality world Second Life, to its digital team. The guy has purchased a whole of five albums in the last eight and a half years and has an excuse for every day of the week.