Ludaversal Sessions: Ludacris, Usher & David Guetta
Pandora Goes Ad-Free For Windows 8 Phone
At the beginning of 2013, Pandora will be ad-free for all Windows 8 owners throughout the entire year. I think this is a good marketing plan, but I am not sure how much it will drive sales. It is definitely a good start to create attention for the newest phone from Microsoft. I also wondered how they were able to work out a deal like this, so the snippet below should provide some insight:
“Pandora charges $3 per month for ad-free Pandora, or $36 per year. It’s not clear what Microsoft is paying Pandora to make this happen, but it could be as much as $36 for each Windows Phone 8 that it sells, if Microsoft is “paying retail,” as it were.” [AlLindstrom]
TuneSat Help Musicians Get Their Royalties From Television
A couple of weeks ago we highlighted a new feature that ASCAP was rolling out, it gives royalties to musicians for live shows. Today we have come across another company that aims to put money back in musician’s pockets. TuneSat was designed to help artist collect royalties for unlicensed music used on television.
”Majority of uses of music on tv are not reported to Performing Rights Organizations and that those that are still rely on manual processes, TuneSat makes a strong case for artists investigating their services.”
Here is a little bit more insight on how they work:
“TuneSat monitors tv broadcasts not only for such obvious uses of clients’ music as theme songs but for “dirty audio” in which music may be a part of a larger mix of sound. They update accounts every hour with the previous hour’s data and post audio recordings of all the captured detection. Information includes date and time, show information and client metadata with additional filtering tools.” [AlLindstrom]
iTunes Top Tens
Meek Mill’s Maybach Music Group/Warner Bros. albumDreams and Nightmares and PSY’s “Gangnam Style” are at #1 on iTunes list of best-selling albums and singles, respectively, this morning. The rapper is followed byTaylor Swift’s Red, Kendrick Lamar’s good kid, m.A.A.d city, Jason Aldean’s Night Train, Flyleaf’s New Horizons, the deluxe edition of Toby Keith’s Hope on the Rocks,Neil Young and Crazy Horse’s Psychedelic Pill, Mumford & Sons‘ deluxe Babel,Tech N9ne’s Boiling Point and Parkway Drive’s Atlas. PSY is followed by Ke$ha’s “Die Young,” Bruno Mars’ “Locked Out of Heaven,” Maroon 5’s “One More Night,”Taylor Swift’s “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together,” Rihanna’s “Diamonds,” Swift’s “I Knew You Were Trouble,” fun.’s “Some Nights,” Flo Rida’s “I Cry” and Swift’s “Red,” giving her three in the Top 10. [HitsDailyDouble]