Mobile music sales set to rise as Warner Brothers partners with Nokia
A new report by eMarketer forecasting physical, online, and mobile sales of music through 2011 paints a bright future for mobile music sales, and music labels seem to agree.
The most striking fact is the prediction that by 2011, the majority of music sales, 56.5 percent, will be online or mobile, with physical music sales falling by nearly two-thirds from 2006 to 2011. Also worth noting is that by 2011, mobile music sales will draw nearly even… Continue Reading
Warner streams entire catalog of music for free on imeem
Warner Music Group is offering its entire music and video catalog for free streaming on imeem, a Web site focused on letting users share music playlists.
The music is currently live on the San Francisco startup’s Web site, the company told VentureBeat Wednesday evening.
Now imeem users can make playlists with Warner music. Warner, in return, will get a piece of imeem’s ad revenue.
So music from Depeche Mode, a Warner artist, can be played freely, for example…. Continue Reading