Arival Records

Call me a geek but I’m always on my iPhone and when I discovered that I can listed to my playlists while I write texts or browse the web I was very excited, if you follow Spotify’s blog you’ll have seen what I saw, this statement:

“We know that many of you have been waiting for an update to our iPhone app that supports the latest iOS 4 and background listening. We’re happy to say that an updated app has been submitted to Apple for review. Hopefully we’ll get a speedy approval and to make up for the extra little wait time we’ve added a nice little surprise to make Spotify mobile even more exciting for you, stay tuned!”

Spotify rocks and now I can listen on the go and do other stuff, how awesome is that?

Sarah

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Wow, I could hardly believe it that after downloading the iTunes Festival App I could watch the festival live on the iPhone, can believe it either? I was pretty amazed by this, I was hooked I couldn’t keep my eyes of my iPhone! So if you wanted to go to the iTunes festival but couldn’t make it just head on over to the app store and bag yourself the app.

Sarah

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EMI has revealed that is now restructuring to become a comprehensive rights management company, this recent announcement will bring it’s recorded music and publishing divisions closer together. EMI state that there aim is to “reposition itself as a comprehensive rights management company that ca take full advantage of global opportunities in all markets of music”

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It’s no secret that Facebook well and truly dominate the social networking world, in days gone by Myspace was the site on everyone’s lips now almost 10 years on and it’s Facebook on everyone’s lips only in much higher numbers. A site like Bebo have now become just another one of those social networking sites that no one bothers with and AOL knowing full well that Bebo will never beat Facebook in popularity plan to sell the social networking site that cost them £570million to acquire.

It looks like AOL plan to sell the site for just £7million to Criterion Capital Partners, a company that specialize in rejuvenating failed businesses. It is unsure what’s really going on but it looks like a deal between the 2 companies will be reached by the end of this week.

Back in April AOL announced that it planned to sell Bebo or simply close it down, Jon Brod, executive vice-president of AOL Ventures, stated “AOL is not in a position at this time to further fund and support Bebo in pursuing a turnaround in social networking.”

Criterion Capital Partners’ managing partner Adam Levin, had this to say Bebo was an attractive media site due to its “young, highly active user base, revenue history, presence in countries throughout the world and solid technical infrastructure.”

AOL has revealed that the deal will give it a meaningful tax deduction, and forecast that it would record a deferred tax asset and benefit in a range of £185 million to £219 million for the second quarter.

Let’s keep our eyes peeled!

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After years of music sales on the decrease things look set to change, hip hop group the Black Eyed Peas are set to be the first act to hit 1 million downloads in the UK purely on the strength of one single. “I got a Feeling” the track in question fell just shy of number one due to Dizzee Rascal and James Corden’s World Cup tribute “Shout for England”.

Anyway I digress, the point is that legal download sales are on the rise, which is great news for young songwriters and artists, to top it off the Official Charts Company believe the million download mark is going to be regularly beaten in the future. My thoughts are that thanks to Apple (Apple feel free to thank me for this plug) making it so easy and cheap to access music on the go through iTunes on your iPod or iPhone, we will see a huge surge in digital music and film downloads, thus saving the music and film industries.

The futures not bleak for modern music.

Sarah

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