Music News

It’s a typical slow Monday on the music news front…

FEATURES:

• 12,000 indie labels are looking to Merlin to negotiate their fair share with new music services, but to date no deals have been announced.
• Join The Discussion: Will Indies be left out of Music 2.0?
• Last week’s Music 2.0 Week In Review.

PLUS:

• Wired’s Listening Post takes a look at programs used to inflate a band’s plays on MySpace.
• Rumors of a possible $3 million investment by Universal in band services site Nimbit appear to be true.
• Viacom’s quarterly earnings jumps 33% on strong ratings as MTV and sales of Rock Band video games. (FT)
• Watch for Hypebot’s exclusive coverage all this week from Digital NARM in San Francisco.

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