Wal-Mart Flexes Music Muscle – AC/DC Deal Moves 780,000 – Popular Downloads Now 74 Cents
Just in time for the silly season, Wal-Mart is flexing some serious music muscle in an industry that is basically knocked out on its feet. This past week, AC/DC sold more than 780,000 copies its first new album in over 10 years Black Ice. The exclusive retailer deal, with a substantial marketing rollout by both Wal-Mart and Columbia Records, demonstrated the retailers clout with consumers. In addition, Wal-mart relaunched their...
MySpace Music Announces IODA Deal
MySpace Music announced that IODA, a digital distributor of independent labels will provide its catalog of music to the recently launched MySpace Music. The addition of IODA will inject over one million new songs into MySpace Music’s growing indie catalogue. Through this partnership, the MySpace Music community will be able to stream and purchase music from IODA’s catalog of more than one million tracks from a diverse...






