Dada Entertainment and Sony BMG have signed a deal which will see full-length DRM-free MP3s made available to Dada’s subscribers. The service charges $9.99 a month for 15 tokens, each…

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With all the talk that they’re getting a pasting over their upcoming Comes With Music service, it’s understandable that Nokia (NYSE: NOK) is getting a little miffed with all the…

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As Nokia (NYSE: NOK) prepares to launch one of the more innovative ways to sell music on a mobile phone—by including free and unlimited downloads for a year—the company will…

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Are ringbacks just not marketed properly? According to a slew of analysts ringbacks are poised to pick up the slack in the declining ringtone market, but they’ve got to be…

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UK mobile network 3 has signed a deal with Sony (NYSE: SNE) BMG to provide the operator’s subscribers with ad-funded music videos. The Guardian reports that a year following 3’s…

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New York-based Thumbplay said it now has distribution agreements with three of the top four record labels with today’s addition of Sony (NYSE: SNE) BMG. The new partnership adds about…

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*Sony Ericsson* has announced plans to launch a mobile (and online) music store in the second quarter of 2008 in a bid to counter moves by Nokia (NYSE: NOK)—and to…

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Interesting tie-up, though surprised why SonyBMG would go this route: it has tied up with Italian mobile content firm Dada to form a joint venture company in U.S. that would…

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Just came out of an evening mini-conference on mobile music here in London, called Mobile Music Now! (Readers: the exclamation point is part of the name. Read into it how…

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Warner Music Group and Sony BGM have teamed up with Russian holding firm Access Industries to create a wholesale B2B distribution vehicle for online and mobile music. Russia is one…

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Vodafone U.K. will trial a new off-portal service that gives users access to Sony BMG music tracks via a “text trigger.” Put simply, the service - developed together with mobile…

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Something I missed while I was at the conference last week: 3UK has signed a deal with Groove Mobile to sell music videos via a dual-download service. “The video downloads…

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Gavin Parry, general manager of sales and digital at Sony BMG, gave a talk on music and communities at the Mobile Content World Australasia 2007. Most people are familiar with…

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Sony BMG Music Entertainment has signed a deal with MobiTV to create a series of ad-sponsored customized channels featuring original video programming for the label’s artists. The first one is…

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Sony BMG Music Entertainment has sealed a deal with Global Music International a content aggregator active in the Chinese market, to deliver the music label’s stockpile of Chinese and western…

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A couple of interesting points about digital music as part of Sony BMG’s business...it’s currently around 20% but “that percentage should rise “significantly” when someone figures out how to make…

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J/Arista Records has signed a deal with Motorola that will see whole albums appear on Motorola’s iRadio service before they are released. J Records will “leak” Monica’s release “The Makings…

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McDonalds and Akoo have announced the launch of m-Venue, which “allows patrons to choose a wide variety of audio and video content from Sony BMG Music Entertainment, Universal Music Group,…

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Jamba is promoting its music service at the radio show Internationalen Funkausstellung in Berlin (IFA), where it will have a “bluetooth column” and give away Jamba content, such as ringtones,…

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I’ve poorly translated the following from German, so if any German speakers notice any mistakes please let me know… The Jamba (German arm of Jamster) full track music service, which…

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The other half of the music battle...an ongoing lawsuit between some musicians and Sony over the amount of royalties they receive has been expanded to include ringtones. “The suit claims…

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More in the continuing trend of uning operators as  apromo vehicles for music releases: OutKast has launched its latest music video on the O2 mobile platform as part of a…

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Music and entertainment are central to peoples lives, so it will be essential to mobile—Michael Nash, Warner Music The New Media panel had some pretty heavy hitters...Michael Nash from Warner…

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We just want to do business. We are signing as many deals as possible.—Jorge Mejia, Director New Business Sony/ATV, USA With someone from the publishing arm of Sony and another…

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The first talk at Contenido Movil was about mobile music in Latin America, and was focused on ringtones (as the most widely distributed form of mobile music). According to Leila…

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