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Music Dish Network and partners to Launch Groundbreaking Consulting & Marketing
Three influential U.S. music marketing and promotional companies have come together to provide indie artists a vast array of personalized marketing and consulting services. MusicDish, Inside the Music Business (sm) and Serchlite Music have announced the Music Consulting & Marketing Collective (MCMC) - a full marketing and promotional service providing a new arsenal of cutting-edge offerings and avenues for indie artists looking to break into the music industry.
New Online Label Store Virtual Music Market Debuts
Nashville songplugger Raleigh Squires, a 30-plus-year veteran of the music business, has announced the opening of a new Internet record label/music download store at Virtual Music
Market. According to Squires the store will serve as a platform from which independent artists and musicians can market their music in a different way than most of the other online stores. The label/store debuts with six independent artist products and also serves as a portal to Amazon.com's mainstream music downloads in addition to movies, videos, books, and e-books. Squires' daughter Sarah, a 10-year Nashville advertising and marketing executive, is also a partner in the venture.
Lily Vasquez Raises $50,000 On Sellaband
Lily Vasquez, singer/songwriter born in Colombia and raised in New York, has become part of a revolution in the music industry by becoming the first Latina to reach the goal imposed by the European consortium
sellaband of collecting, with assistance from internet fans, $50,000 to produce her own CD.
The Digital Lowdown - Digital Only Releases: Pros and Cons
 by Steven Corn (BFM Digital),  "When does your CD come out?" More often than not, a typical response from an artist is that they are planning a digital only release and then they'll see how it goes. The decision to press CDs is usually postponed until it is determined if the album sells online or not. Practically every week, there is another digital-only label popping up while all the pundits proclaim the impending death of the CD-format.
eMusic and Hudson Entertainment Sign Online Music Distribution Deal
Hudson Entertainment, a premiere provider of entertainment content, announced today that it is expanding its distribution reach in the online digital music space with the signing of a licensing and distribution agreement with eMusic, the world's largest retailer of independent music and the world's second-largest digital music service after iTunes.
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