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Darren Hayes On Forming Own Record Label

The multi-platinum artist and former member of Savage Garden, Darren Hayes issues Secret Codes & Battleships. In this exclusive interview to Dotted Music, he talks on challenges of forming a record label.

What To Make Of The Spotify And Facebook Partnership

Facebook marketing is no longer about the mere maintenance of your band’s Facebook page since Facebook’s release of Facebook Music and their announcement of f8 partnerships with Spotify, MOG, VEVO, Soundcloud, Turntable, and eleven others.

Apple’s Search Engine

In today’s technology age three names come to mind. Those are Facebook, Apple, and Google. All three are powerhouse companies with an enormous amount of users in many different countries. Whilst they all cater to different desires, they all have one common thing in mind: dominance.

CDs To Be Dead In Five Years?

The chief-executive of one of the largest entertainment retailers in the UK says the CD will be dead in five years time. What do you think on this?

The Big Four’s Digital Arms Race: Google’s Victory?

Data published by comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in digital market research, shows youtube to be an important market for the biggest record labels’ promotion of their artists.

Dotted Music Readers Don’t Think MySpace Will Be Successful Again

As we reported in our weekly newsletter a week ago, MySpace’s new owner Specific Media had claimed to relaunch the social media mammoth in 2011, focusing solely on music.