Ross On Radio: Fresh Listen, iTunes Radio Top 40

Ross On Radio: Fresh Listen, iTunes Radio Top 40

Broadcasters were quick to dismiss iTunes Radio. In many ways, the criticisms that the people who reinvented everything came up with just another Internet radio service are valid. But iTunes top 40 channels do manage to play the hits a little faster than major-market radio. And if that's so easy, why hasn't everybody done it? We take a Fresh Listen.
Digital Notes: UCLA's 'Future of Digital Music Delivery' Panel; Berklee's Online Degrees; CreativeLive's Biz Model

Digital Notes: UCLA's 'Future of Digital Music Delivery' Panel; Berklee's Online Degrees; CreativeLive's Biz Model

This week's Digital Notes column is dedicated to the pursuit of knowledge in academia. Berklee School of Music recently began taking applications for its first online degree program in music business and music production. UCLA next week launches a series on the future of media with a session on digital music distribution. And CreativeLIVE expands into music.
Birth of a Buzz: Behind the Scenes as Hozier Goes Viral

Birth of a Buzz: Behind the Scenes as Hozier Goes Viral

There's a good chance you haven't heard of Hozier quite yet -- though over 230,000 have over the past week-and-a-half. Born Andrew Hozier Byrne, the emerging singer-songwriter is in the midst of a unique spike of awareness, made possible by the digital age. We call it "going viral" these days.
YouTube 3.0: Are They Paying Enough? (From the Magazine)

YouTube 3.0: Are They Paying Enough? (From the Magazine)

At 26, Lindsey Stirling is already a seasoned YouTube veteran -- a Los Angeles-based artist who has blazed a career path through the platform, garnering more than 3 million subscribers whose views generate enough steady advertising revenue to pay her bills. That was then. Today, Stirling and YouTube have found themselves at the threshold of a new age.
Anna Kendrick Tops AC Chart With 'Cups'

Anna Kendrick Tops AC Chart With 'Cups'

More than a year after the release of "Pitch Perfect," the movie's lead Anna Kendrick reaches No. 1 on Billboard's Adult Contemporary radio airplay chart with "Cups (Pitch Perfect's When I'm Gone)," which rises 2-1.

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