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** Music Update #3 **

Felina Tambakos Posted: October 10th, 2010

[|Chart Watch: Glee and the Fab Four]

Last week the television show "Glee" beat out a record previously held by the Beatles for most top 100 songs for a non-solo artist. The actors of "Glee" have produced 75 songs that made it to the Billboard Top 100 chart, as opposed to the Beatles' 71. Most people, myself included, always refer to the music industry as a dying business, but maybe we just have to aknowledge that it won't continue on in the way we're used to. People may not be selling actually albums (or cds for that matter) anymore, but instead the public is buying digital songs and ringtones. The same concept goes with the idea of WHO is bringing in the money in music. Maybe instead of developing legends, the industry is based on developing a different creed of artist. This idea of "Glee" breaking a record held by the Beatles stands for more than the record itself. The Beatles' were just named the greatest artist ever on a recent VH1 countdown; so for them to lose a record about hit making to a TV program is really important when looking at the idea of different media converging due to technology. Sure, TV shows have been putting out songs for decades, but "The Brady Bunch" never broke any of Elvis' records. The music industry may be hanging on by a thread by relying on TV casts, but that may just be the next step in the evolution of music sales.

Cameron Nash Posted: October 11th, 2010

[|Tech Industry to RIAA, radio biz: Keep Your 'legacy technology' demands away from our cellphones]

A common belief among teens and young adults nowadays is that radio is boring and hardly any of us listen to it. The surge of iPods, Pandora, Rhapsody and other music based technology now seems to be a better way to go about our days. Radio does come in handy on occasion but really it appears to have lost its dominance with the way mobile music & information is being circulated. All of that may soon change. This article states that the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) has been pushing to have FM tuners government mandated on all cell phone devices because of the introduction to performance rights royalties to the U.S. market. Congress believes that the NAB & the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) need to work on a compromise. By increasing the number of mobile phones with FM tuners, radio believes that it could compete with the Pandoras of the world. Radio also believe its could boost its advertising and listenership. I am personally not a huge fan of radio, especially while driving, but I do believe they are on to an idea. If the option of radio was available on my phone I would be more prone to listening to it there than while in my car. I don't think most teens & young adults would necessarily become avid listeners but I am sure the ability & likelihood of radio to reach more listeners would surely increase. On the other hand, I disagree that it needs to be mandated on all phones because I think the consumer should have an option on whether or not they have it on their phone. I would recommend it being available on some phones, or even being purchased like an application for a phone as two possibilities.

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 * CAMERON NASH [PT. 2 For Fun]**

I felt like putting this video just because.

**Allison Trygar** Posted: October 12, 2010 http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20101012/music_nm/us_lilwayne

=Lil Wayne packaging CD with "Rapstar" video game=

= David Chmura = Posted: October 13, 2010

How Music Affects Mood
Something I find very interesting is how music affects the mental "state" of an individual. I've selected two very contrasting genres that I believe are excellent examples that illustrate how music affects mood. Not only is there an obvious audible difference, you can feel a physical difference between the two.

[|Lamb of god - Black Label] [|Irish Blessing]

I thought of this topic because of a quote from the band Disturbed from their special addition album "Asylum". Lead singer, David Draiman, said that they write and compose their songs to amp (pump) people up. To tie this into the music industry, I believe there is definitely a market for people who want specific styles of music and the music industry as a whole of course wants to produce these genres for target audiences.

The video below shows how the advent of music software and technology allow not only Rockstar-status bands, but also upcoming ones to produce their own music too without having go to major production companies always.

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Cheyne Prock
http://www.gogoyoko.com/

Gogoyoko is a music distribution site that enables fans to buy music directly from the artist. The artists can claim 100% of the profits from online music sales with no label executives as the middlemen.The service earns artists 40% of revenue generated from ads displayed while users stream their videos. The musicians can either direct fans to the Gogoyoko site or build their own music store applet. These stores have all the songs artists want to sell and enables on demand streaming, which allows fans to stream their songs from anywhere.