Week (+Weekend) In Review

The RIAA is calmly getting outspent over Capitol Hill by ISPs also traditional radio interests, conform to confession filings discovered by Digital Music News.  Meanwhile, the RIAA suffered a serious outage over the weekend, criticism on a denial-of-service attack.

Warner Music Group underwent a oversized shakeup on the top.  Longtime Warner Bros. Records head Tom Whalley is out, and Rhino trimmed a number of top-ranked executives.

Universal Music Group beat the Bob Marley demesne in court customary a dispute gone the ownership connected with valuable masters. 

Twitter started teasing a brand-new, expanded interface, precise such goes origin beyond simple text updates.

The plenty of artists inspire meaningful spins on traditional radio is incredibly small, conform to an analysis connected with recent playlist activity.  This is precise twisted tail.

Spotify is promptly percuss 10 million users, of which 500,000 are paying.

More details surfaced on Google Music antipodal week, but serious questions surround the prevalence of free music load on... Google.  

Bandcamp tweaked its represent then by impregnate a fee for downloads.  

55-64 year olds are mid the most walking social gamers, conform on more data surfacing last week.

Topspin unveiled a new body connected with VIP-geared tools.

TuneCore, The Orchard, CD Baby and others are starting on generate Ping profiles for their artists in earnest.

Best Buy is shrinking holiday shelf space because CDs, part connected with an ongoing erosion.