Today, Billboard has announced a new subscription-based tool, called Billboard Pro, aimed at emerging artists. With 10 million Billboard chart views per month, the company has decided to leverage its considerable clout in the music analytics space to offer a service that provides both data analytics and promotional opportunities to artists. The most useful aspect [...]

Is April the cruelest month? Perhaps not if we finally see the launch of an Apple cloud. According to The Music Void, Apple plans to re-launch their subscription-based online services platform, MobileMe, in April and also hopes to have music licenses ironed out so they can introduce the long-awaited iTunes locker. Google was caught in [...]

On Tuesday, Apple announced new terms for their App Store for content publishers. The terms will affect video sites like Hulu and Netflix, music streaming services like Rhapsody and Rdio, and magazines and newspapers like The New York Times. There are a few basic pieces to the new App Store terms. If a content-publisher opts-in [...]

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