MySpace Forms Music Venture, Mariah Makes History, and Recommended Listening…
Posted April 4, 2008 — in Music News
MTV Picks Up Puppet Series: MTV has picked up “Fur TV,” an adult comedy series about a group of foulmouthed, sex-mad puppets, made by Warp Films, the U.K. shingle behind BAFTA-winning feature “This Is England.” This is more or less a spin off of Beavis and Butthead, but this time involving puppets. How exciting! Watch the silly segment here.
Mariah Makes History: Mariah Carey scores her 18th No. 1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 this week with “Touch My Body”. Download sales of 286,000 units, according to Nielsen SoundScan, top the previous record set by Rihanna’s “Umbrella,” which shifted 277,000 last June.
Myspace Finally Forms Music Venture with Major Music Labels: MySpace finally formed an online music venture with three major recording companies in a challenge to Apple. MySpace Music will offer free music and video streaming supported by advertising, paid-for MP3 downloads, ringtones for cell phones, concert ticket sales and merchandise. MySpace Music is seen as a potential rival to iTunes, which takes more than 70 percent of digital download sales.
New Music Streams: Chicago metal act Disturbed is streaming new songs on their myspace including Inside the Fire and Perfect Insanity. The new record will be titled Indestructible and will be released through Reprise Records.
Recommended Listening: Choices and Crowded Streets by Winter Ransom
Trends: Paramore has spawned a throng of female fronted bands. Take Florida band Blake for instance who will be performing a series of Warped Tour dates. Is there room for two? Probably not!
Policing Internet ‘not ISP’s job’: The head of one of Britain’s biggest internet providers has criticised the music industry for demanding that he act against pirates. The BPI, asked internet service providers to disconnect people who ignore requests to stop sharing music. If the ISP’s do not help with the fight against music piracy, then the government will bring in legislation to make them cooperate.
many of mariah’s “#1’s” are fake, they were bought with kickbacks to soundscan reporters
Comment by barrym — April 4, 2008 @ 12:16 pm
winter ransom is incredible!
so glad atlanta music is getting more attention!!!
Comment by step.on.me — April 4, 2008 @ 12:48 pm
Just because the ISPs are able to police the internet doesn’t mean they’re responsible to, & some would argue that they aren’t even able to.
It’s not GE’s responsibility to police what people do with their electricity. If someone is caught cutting the tags off a mattress with an electric saw powered by GE electricity, it’s not GE’s responsibility to cut the power. They don’t monitor what people do with their electricity, they just provide the electricity. If someone is caught doing something against the law, it’s up to the victim or the state to prosecute that individual according to the law. That’s just how things work. Anyone who believes otherwise is delusional.
Furthermore, this all relies on labels’ requests. Someone is ACCUSED of sharing files, & then a second accusation means the termination of a service the user is paying for. Where’s the due process in that? Cutting the courts out of the equation is unconstitutional. If said consumer is found to be guilty, then by all means have their service discontinued. But we can’t abandon the idea of “innocent until proven guilty in a court of law” just because the music industry has been dragging it’s feet for 8 years.
Comment by Jon Cole — April 4, 2008 @ 1:02 pm
The ISP lobbyists who say they should not have to “police the internet” are living in the past — relying on outdated excuses from an earlier technological age.
when the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act and the EU Electronic Commerce Directive were drawn up, legislators were concerned to offer safe harbours restricting the responsibilities of ISPs who acted as a “mere conduit”. This was a different era: only a few hundred thousand illegal files could be accessed from websites. There was no inkling at that time of the enormous explosion of P2P piracy that was to follow
If the ISP’s wont educate the consumers and warn them of illegal file sharing, then the government will.
The time is near and is already being talked about. The internet is about to change!
Comment by liz — April 4, 2008 @ 1:11 pm
If you want another good female fronted band check out Fireflight. They did the theme song for Bionic Woman called “Unbreakable”.
Comment by Dave — April 4, 2008 @ 3:17 pm
I can’t stand Mariah Cary’s new song. I find it hard to believe that many people like it. I love most of her songs but not that new one. I like to hear her sing not that quick talking wordy kind of song.
Comment by Lisa Bradley — April 4, 2008 @ 7:39 pm
Following in the Amy Winehouse tradition of retro 60’s music with a modern flair check out http://www.myspace.com.duffymyspace.
Comment by Brett — April 5, 2008 @ 9:27 am
It has nothing to do with how many files are on the internet, liz. What you’re saying is “I don’t like what people are doing & ISPs could possibly make them stop, so we’ll just FORCE ISPs to make them stop.” That’s just not how things work in America. Or at least that’s not how things are SUPPOSED to work.
Almost all things can be used legally or illegally, whether it’s electricity, gasoline, water, hammers, nails, guns, knives, or even bandwidth on the interwebs. The maker or provider of a product or service has never been responsible for what a consumer does with what they pay for. If a consumer commits a crime with a product or service, it has always been up to the victim or the state to press charges against the victim, that’s just how it works. You’re supposing a scenario where the ISP takes the place of the judge & the RIAA takes the place of the jury. Surely you understand what you’re saying? Any sort of reprimand handed out by the ISP has to be voluntary, or else the court is delegating it’s responsibility to biased private parties. Can’t you see that’s a big deal?
At least that’s how I understand it.
Comment by Jon Cole — April 5, 2008 @ 12:03 pm
Yay Corporatocracy!
Comment by AJ-KOAR — April 5, 2008 @ 10:10 pm
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