Lady Gaga is YouTube Billionaire
The pop singer marked her billionth video view on YouTube this past weekend, giving music video venture Vevo and its backer, Universal Music Group, reason to smile. Digital Music News reports that at...
View ArticleAmazon Digital Services Buckle On Success of Lady Gaga Promotion
Amazon.com continues to make a name for itself as a destination for deeply-discounted digital music, with Lady Gaga fans flocking to the site to purchase Lady Gaga’s new “Born This Way” album for 99...
View ArticleGaga Saga, Part II: Amazon Says of Cloud Service Promotion, ‘This Time We’re...
In repeating its 99-cent sale of Lady Gaga’s new “Born This Way” album today, Amazon aims to introduce its MP3 store and cloud music service to consumers that learned of Monday’s headline-grabbing...
View ArticleGaga on the ‘Nice Surprise’ of Amazon’s 99-Cent Album Promo
Does Lady Gaga feel her new album is worth more than 99 cents? “No. I absolutely do not,” the artist tells The Wall Street Journal. “Especially for MP3s and digital music: it’s invisible. It’s in...
View ArticleImpact of Amazon’s Gaga Sale on Physical Distribution?
Interscope and Universal Music Group Distribution shipped 2.1 million copies of Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way” before its May 23 street date, according to Billboard. But with Amazon.com’s 99-cent sale of...
View ArticleNumber One With an Asterisk: Billboard to Exclude Deep Discounts from Sales...
Billboard is instituting a minimum pricing threshold on its long-running sales charts, casting a frown upon music retailers’ most aggressive promotion tactics as record labels seek to stabilize the...
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