This morning, Kylie Minogue‘s new video was just unlocked by her fans, who had been asked to generate 25,000 #KylieTimeBomb tweets in order to access her new song, “Timebomb”. They did so in less than an hour. At the campaign’s peak, it reached 10 tweets per second, making the Antipodean singer Twitter’s number one trending topic in just six minutes. Once the tweet target had been reached, the below video was revealed, and the song made available on iTunes and Spotify.
No sooner was it all over, Lawrence – an independent developer via his own shop, wemakeawesomesh.it and participant in midem hack day 2012 – told us all about the making of this next-gen single launch campaign. 
In the never-ending quest to keep our ear buds satisfied, Spotifyhas emerged as a leader in bringing the social graph to the music listening experience. And with the introduction of Spotify Apps in November, developers were given the option to create new and exciting ways to make that experience even better.The result? A host of great apps that will enhance how you discover music. Here are six we like. 
Funded by, among others, Google Ventures, Founders Fund, Menlo Ventures and TomorrowVentures, the Backplane aims to transform how the entertainment industry interacts with consumers. Currently, Twitter, YouTube, Facebook and the other outposts of a celebrity’s digital career are separate.
The Backplane aims to gather content and interaction into one hub, which could completely alter the economics of Hollywood: revenue that once flowed to corporations will flow to artists. “Up until this point, we’ve been data dumb,” Carter says. “If a kid goes and buys a CD at Best Buy, we have no idea who the person is, how many times they listen to it, or anything like that.But we’re building to the point where one day we’re going to have access to all of the data. There will be a time where we’ll be able to release music through the Backplane, where we’ll be able to release music videos through there, we’re going to be able to sell all our tickets through there. Over a period of time, we’ll be able to build that audience so they’ll know exactly where to come.” 
When Sony Entertainment Network chief Tim Schaaf told Evolver.fm in an exclusive interview last December that Sony was working on an Apple iOS app for its unlimited music subscription, Sony Music Unlimited, we took it as a sign that Sony was... 
Smule has been churning out scores of popular music-making iOS apps for years now, but they’ve been notoriously gun-shy about bringing those apps to other platforms. 
There’s currently a heated battle being waged between three of the biggest on-demand music streaming services — MOG, Spotify, and Rdio — each of which is trying to capture our hearts and ears by offering the best mobile experience for tunes... 
Nous l'avions rencontrée en mars, quand l'élection de François Hollande n'était encore pour elle qu'un espoir. C'est désormais chose faite, et Aurélie Filippetti, députée de Moselle et responsable du pôle culture et médias au sein de l'équipe de campagne de François Hollande, fait partie de la short list des personnalités envisagées à la tête du ministère de la Culture.
Cette semaine, nous décidons de publier en intégralité sur musiqueinfo.com les propos de la ministrable. 
With the goal of creating a "simpler, faster, more social" SoundCloud, the oinline audio platform unveiled a major makeover. Dubbed "The Next SoundCloud", all upgrades are available in beta immediately. 
Airtime, which is rumored to be a video sharing service, will officially launch to the public June 5 in New York.
With little more than a name and a launch date, the entrepreneurs best known for launching the music start-up Napster have announced their new venture. The project, called Airtime, is rumored to be a video technology platform with a social angle, reports CNET, and will officially launch June 5 at New York City’s Milk Studios.
Guest post by Andy Cush of Evolver.fm.
At its San Francisco headquarters, Rdio recently held its first-ever hack day - a marathon event where coders build stuff that works, fast. 
Music streaming provider Deezer is one of the bigger (and older -- it's been around since 2006) services of its kind, with some 20 million registered users in 48 territories, and 15 million tracks in its catalog -- but it has failed to capture... 
Despite fears that streaming access cannibalizes sales, classical music record label X5 tells me when it launched an app within Spotify and saw streams of one album increase 412% in a month, that album’s iTunes sales shot up 50%. 
Mobile phones can be considered either an asset or a hindrance depending on whom you ask. At one point, mobile phones were only available in brick sizes reminiscent of the scenes in A Night At The Roxbury. Fast forward to the present day when mobile phones dominate nearly every facet of human behavior. They have disrupted how we communicate with one another, how we function in a work environment, and how we choose to spend our free time. You can’t walk by a crowd of people without seeing someone typing on their Blackberry or iPhone. With the amount of impact the mobile phone has had on daily life, it is only recently that this disruption has infiltrated music. |
As the thermometer consistently tops 70 degrees here in New England, it's safe to say summer is coming in. For music lovers, that means music festivals. 
In March, VEVO launched a bold new redesign that provided TV-like viewing, with instantaneous and continuous playback. 
Internet music service Pandora just announced its financial results for the first quarter of its fiscal 2013. The company had a total revenue of $80.8 million, a 58% increase year-over-year. ![DJ Shadow Adds Discography To Facebook Timeline [CASE STUDY] - hypebot | MUSIC:ENTER | Scoop.it](http://img.scoop.it/NJMuqTU_JlJD2BKaJS2afjl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBVaiQDB_Rd1H6kmuBWtceBJ)
Without question, DJ Shadow is among a special group of music artists who can be safely considered as “legacy” artists. Regardless of how much more music he continues to put out (and he still does), and no matter how many more shows he plays, he has already built up enough of a legacy throughout his 20+ year career of providing the world with influential music.
Shadow’s story is one that is both historic and dense, with an incredible amount of material released over the years. So with Facebook’s new Timeline layout, Shadow’s digital marketing team at Fame House saw a perfect opportunity to tell that story through a visual display of every one of his releases posted to Shadow’s Timeline, dated to the time in history it was released. 
Spotify has reached a milestone of 20 million monthly active users, according to music industry blogger and former Jupiter Research analyst Mark Mulligan, who has been tracking Spotify usage with the help of Facebook’s publicly available app data.
Unlimited-access digital music services are racing to beat iTunes - and each other - in new countries each week. Our map breaks down the world's digital music market, country by country. Présentation pour le congrès ACFAS 2012 Par Jean-Robert Bisaillon Via GilCasta, Jean-Baptiste Gourdin 
For more than 60 years, the release of the charts on a Sunday evening has been both a weekly ritual for music fans and a way of taking the temperature of a whole industry. 
Mobile Roadie recently announced a major upgrade of their mobile app creation service that includes the addition of an iPad app platform and a free self-service mobile website platform.
Lady Gaga has captured the imagination of the entertainment world with her team’s successful social media engagement with the fans she calls her “Little Monsters”, and many other artists and agents are scrambling to capitalise in similar ways.
At the Spot music conference in Århus, Denmark, musician and futurist Gerd Leonard discussed a series of possible futures for the music business 
Guest post by Kyle Bylin (@kbylin) of Live Nation Labs and Ultimate Chart.
The geosocial revolution (see Foursquare and Facebook Places) promises to connect us to the places we visit and the people who frequent them, while helping us discover music in new ways, too.Over the past year, a number of startups have released location-based music apps—each aspiring to revolutionize the way we listen to music. |
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