And since years one of my favorite pages for Web 2.0 and software predictions: Read Write Web

as Mr Techcrunch Arrington, I do not know why he understands from the music business, but he stated  that he would knew some details:

“TechCrunch went on to report that 1/3 of the artists currently signed to the label were already working under this kind of comprehensive arrangement which can involve label control of revenue from publishing, web sites, merchandise, touring and all other aspects of the artist’s career.”  (quote from Hypebot)

Also all other major labels started with this risk mitigation tactic.

More about 360 deals here:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/11/arts/music/11leed.html

More basic news on the new music business models in the German “Die Zeit”

http://www.zeit.de/2008/05/Pop-Geschaeft?page=all 

http://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2008/09/sony-ericsson-m.html

You could download his presentation @ http://www.mediafuturist.com/files/gerd_leonhard_at_popakademie_mannheim_print.pdf

It was a really cool presentation, although I already saw him at Cebit 08. At the Cebit it was a more general presentation on the future of media. At the PopAkademie he spoke more about the business business and about the marketperspective for artists, labels and the relevance of new business models.

To learn more about his view of the future music market. Download his book, it is for free:

(Creative Commons Licencse) http://www.music20book.com/

In a nutshell: like in the radio: music is for free and the adverstisment gets more and more important to generate revenue for labels and artists. In additition a “feels like free” flateratemodel is also possible. But what he definitely denied was the itunes like a la carte download. This will not be possible in the future.

Today 95% are not paying for music and I could agree with him, a la carte download has no real future for the mass market as standalone. But for bundle with the broadband, mobile contract, isp etc i really would make sense to combine music offerings and hardware or network access. Good examples: Musicload/Dt Telekom – Arcor/Napster – Nokia/Comes with music etc. I think in other countries more examples could be found that bundles will coming up soon.

Gerd has most of the ideas in one of his videos, ppt or in his book! So i really recommend to read some of his writings!

Read it at: http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/stories/050508warner

found at: http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/stories/050508warner

On No.1 as expected www.xing.com, no2 www.studivz.de and no3, i never heard of… www.spin.de

Read the complete list at seitwert or at the german web 2.0 blog zweinull.cc with an analysis.

Of course I just checked my own blog and all the other pages like this or this or this or this

And according to Alexa.com my blog is up to place 500.000something from no 2,100,005 last month, not bad but still not very satisfying.

A lot of nice graphics and overviews are avaiable there like this

or this

But the last one is originally from http://www.unsprungmedia.com/unsprung_wisdom/2007/12/5/2007-rock-star-life-cycle.html

Here is a cool online version: http://www.mixwit.com/

it combines mp3 searches SeeqPod (http://www.seeqpod.com )and SkreemR http://skreemr.com/)  and is really easy to use! after some minutes of copy and pasting songs you could send the link to the virtual tape via E-Mail. Perhaps they will include hype machine and elbo.ws in the future too…

i found the link @ http://blog.go2web20.net/2008/04/music-widget-from-past.html

you should also be able to use it as youtube mixer now..