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I Originally made this on last year on Imeem and wanted to post it again. But as you know Imeem’s gone away. However it did make its way into myspace via the import! Nice work guys – and every song was there!
Hear it in full (log in required)
But I cant share it on my blog with myspace music, so I re-created it in Lala. Thats where the problem was. For some reason Lala doesn’t have the two killer songs (but myspace music does? so i can get it for free, but not via a paid streaming service??)
First one missing on Lala was “Dustland Fairytale” (so i choose the karyoke version!) and next was “This is Your life” (so I choose a different switchfoot song with the same name because that came up first in Lala’s search!) So thanks to rights issues, here it is on Lala with a few adjustments!

My Amazon preferences don’t talk to my itunes ratings or my genius playlist. Neither of them factor in my recommended videos on you tube or vevo. My “ilike’s” don’t tie into my mog preferences…

With all this music and information I still have trouble finding quality stuff I want. And I still miss bands I should know about, or live dates from bands I love!

I’d like a way to set up a highly customizable preference/recommendation engine that followed all my music, video, movies, purchases, streams, and could form “meta recommendations” from them all. Then combine ubiquity of preferences with context (location) and the future connected recommendation experience emerges. Moving seamlessly across sites and services, I could listen to music and media on several different devices and still capture a true picture of my media and commerce behavior. Of course I’d want strong privacy setting that allowed me to benefit from this targeted experience, not just advertisers and merchants!

Anyone working on anything like this? Anyone else want it?

Im excited to be working with DEVO! I am starting on a new project with the band, who is back with Warner Bros Records after many years! Its a brand new model for the business, the band, and WBR.

Watch DEVO inc. CEO Greg Scholl’s first communique now!

Part one of a playlist series highlighting Artist’s from Coachella 2010!

FIND MIX WATCH. That’s the tagline for You Tubes “Music Discovery Project and Playlist Creation Tool”. It’s a new tool coming out of you tubes lab that allows you to create artist based playlists of music videos. While it’s a visual playlist, it alos holds its own as an audio experience.

Just type in the name of an Artist, and an instant video playlist is created. “Mix Tape” and “Similar artist” options give you several ways to epxplore new music and shuffle the experience. You can save also various playlists. but there is no ability to individually move tracks, or share playlists. I just minimized the video and had a pandora like experience.

You tube’s size, combined with this simple tool, and suddenly you tube is a much bigger player in the online music space. This tool also deepens role in music discovery, and connecting artists and fans.
Curious to see usage numbers, and the new features I am sure will come soon.

Check it out here:

Emails went out a few days ago letting you know how to import your imeem playlists into myspace (Myspace Music acquired certain Imeem assets a few months ago).

Nice to see that myspace retained all the user and song info, and one of the first mass example of the portability of the playlist as a format:

Access your playlist by clicking here:
www.myspace.com/music/import-playlists.
You will need to be logged into MySpace.
Log in or sign up for MySpace.

2.
Enter your imeem e-mail address.

3.
Click import and we will retrieve your playlists.

4.
Upon completion, your playlists will be stored in
“My Music,” our playlist management tool. All
playlists can be identified by the name
“import_[yourplaylistname]”

If you have questions visit http://faq.myspace.com/app/home.

Pros: It worked for me with no issues and no import lag time. All of my imeem playlists showed up as private in my myspace playlist dashboard.

Cons: A few songs seem to be missing, due to rights issues, and of course I miss the embedability of imeem! I also have not gone back and replaced my imeem embeds with new links to myspace and I doubt I ever will have the time to do that. That’s an important piece of the playlist transfer they missed.

Will LALA go through a similar process when they are fully integrate into apple?

Checkout a few examples of my old imeem playlists imported into myspace:

New Urban Music 2009

2008 new music sampler

LInks to some past playlist related posts:

Imeem vs Lala Update

New Music Playlist 2009

Imeem vs Lala

Im lucky enough to work with 4 Artists on their way to the top. Watch for them to blow up in 2010.

http://www.jasonderulo.com
http://www.guccimaneonline.com/
http://www.iyazmusic.com/
http://www.thenewboyz.com

Here’s a new playlist of songs from some of my favorite Artists and Albums of 2009. I mixed a few different genres together including some of the best new music, and A+ efforts from some established Artists. Indie, quirky, and mainstream tracks, all living happily together!

After picking the tracks, I tailored it for each of the major streaming music services (a challange I will cover in next post..) and threw in an itunes imix for downloaders. Enjoy your way:

LALA: Playlist represented in full:

MYSPACE:
They don’t give a great option for embedding in blogs (the “share to wordpress” button does not work!). Also Tom Petty live “breakdown was” not in there so I replaced with “nightwatchmen” live, and Taylor Swift Breathe was not there so I replaced with the karoke version! (log in required)

http://music.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=music.singleplaylist&friendid=417774986&plid=1085432
(log in required)

MOG:
Found every track here as well, but this is a paid service:

http://mog.com/playlists/35440

Itunes Imix:
http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewIMix?id=348700889

As with any “Best Of” list, there’s alot missing – no urban or hip hop in this mix – thats next. Happy New Year!

What a way to end the year! I spent my last week in the office bringing the first Warner Bros Artist to HULU. It was a a lot of hard work by the folks at HULU and Warner to get the deal done, and all of the content ingested and ready to launch in synch with MUSE’s SNL appearance! Enjoy their live DVD right here, right now, and check out the rest on the official MUSE HULU channel!

http://www.hulu.com/muse

New stats have facebook in the top 3 for video sites. As consumers become more comfortable watching videos on facebook (most likely through embeds of other sources like you tube and hulu), Artists can effectively build their own video views in existing communities. While you tube has community features via their channels, I like the idea of facebook communities becoming another visual hub.

Facebook Ranks In Top 3 Video Sites:
The view from Y-pulse, and how this may effect hulu and myspace
New Tee Vee’s take, along with the rest of the top 10 players

So now build your community and get your video directly to them. Building a facebook community around video offers some benefits you cant get with your you tube commuity (who’s channels have limited community functionality), and allows video to become a part of the conversation already taking place.

Shakira’s Stats Don’t Lie: Facebook/Ustream Music Video Debut Is A Hit

More options! Make your own video premier – Shakira, facebook and ustream create something exciting, direct to fans, in an environment that makes it easy to pass along.

Earlier this year I helped set up a live broadcast with Ashley TIsdale on her facebook page that over 100k simultaneous viewers. Clearly facebook, with the help of established video partners like ustream, is starting to unlock the potential for Artsits’s facebook communities to become a destination for music videos, and visual interaction.

The Superhighway Tour is a brand new online music product developed by the Tom Petty team here at WBR, and Tom Petty himself!. It’s a direct to fan digital configuration of the upcoming The Live Anthology, with the bonus content on demand from the cloud!

48 digital tracks for $24.98, mp3 AND FLAC! The digital tracks are presented within a dedicated web site and delivered with truly compelling additional material. No DRM – just real value in an on-line experience actually worth paying for. The multimedia around each song gives context, depth and understanding to what is already a career-defining live music anthology. nd them.

The site includes streaming audio commentary from Tom and the band on the songs that are included in the Anthology, historic photos and videos, show reviews, recreated vintage merch, and areas for fans to share their experiences and photos from Tom Petty shows.

http://www.youtube.com/tompetty

And you get 24 tracks before “traditional street date”! The first 24 tracks, which make up the body of the Superhighway Tour are delivered over an 8 week period that leads to street date (11/23/09). The remaining 24 tracks will be delivered collectively on street date.

You can get a free live track without even signing up!

Head there now! http://www.tompettysuperhighway.com

Rumor hit earlier this week on the google music service:

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/21/google-music-service-the-screenshots/
http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/10/22/google.music/index.html

Google already has some experience with music in CHINA

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123841495337969485.html

Google and LALA? Readers of my blog already know I am a fan of lala (like this guy!)
http://changingway.org/2009/10/21/singing-lala-about-google-music/, and i’ve done a lot of great work with ilike and lala…so this looks interesting!

But this all got me thinking about the CD as a music format. There were benefits of this old technology, benefits of a clear standard from the player, to the audio format to the physical medium. You showed up at your friends house and it worked.

With Google entering the scene, we’re moving beyond the physical/file, to online experiences and services. It made me think – what role does compatibility and standards have with services? Is Google the mechanism for compatibility?

Is there a “service” standard where music can be monetized more effectively? You can move from different subscription vendors with ease and keep all of your preferences? If services and experiences had some way to know your preferences, and transfer them seamlessly, google could become a “front end” to an exciting music experience

I’d bet this is not something Google is going to build, but Google’s involvement (whatever it may be), starts making online music services and experiences Interesting. Looking forward, you see google becoming a frictioness traffic driver to all sorts of music products and you dont start over every time you try a new one.

Let me know your thoughts as this story unfolds throughout the week, and Ill post updates as I learn more.

I’ve been posting about the rollout of the LIGHTS campaign for the last few months, and now its with great pride I can show all that’s happened to bring her vision to the world. LIGHTS is a brilliant Artist who not only has a debut album out, but an amazing multimedia presentation of her vision!
Her vision combined with a great plan with MYSPACE MUSIC has created a big US fanbase over the course of the last 9 months(read billboard article here)

Start with this introducing piece created by myspace, then sample all the different sides of LIGHTS:

Introducing LIGHTS (The Listening is out on 10/6!)

LIGHTS | MySpace Video

MUSIC VIDEO for Saviour (traditional)

http://tinyurl.com/ygey798

LIGHTS LIVE (Accoustic)

LIGHTS – COLDPLAY COVER (recorded on the road and in the tour van!)

LIGHTS TALKS GAMING

Head to www.iamlights.com
www.myspace.com.lights for more!

UPDATE 10/21/2010: We saw a 120% increase in sales, the clip was #4 on HULU the day after the SNL airing, and we hadover 60,000 tweets to promote the clip. It was interesting to see the album at #40 after SNL aired across the country. But by mid-day Sunday it was #12. It seemed like a lot of the buzz was around watching the clip the next day. Nice experiment with solid results!

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Here are a few ways things I set up to enhance and capture the buzz from Regina’s SNL performance, and launch her new single “Eet”

Start with the now obligatory Culture Jam Twitter Interface : Tweet about Regina on SNL and get a live version of “EET”. Goal was to make people aware she was on SNL ahead of broadcast. These twitter buzz interface campaigns can work if you have great content – get people excited about getting something spectacular, make it worth their time, and fans will spread the word. In this case, the interface makes it easy, and an inspiring live version of “Eet” makes twittering about Regina fun!

Check it our the campaign and get the Live Version of “Eet”

Then let new fans watching SNL sample the album on NBC.com – Check out Regina’s widget with a stream the new cd “FAR” for a limited time

Sunday Morning, and you haven’t seen it yet? Check out the performance from SNL on HULU.

“Eet”
“The Calculation”

I’ve been watching the album move up itunes ever since!

Great idea and use of twitter functionality to spread the word on the Used’s new Album ARTWORK. One tweet unlocks full stream of the record, with a killer interface to retweet and see who else’s is listening to artwork.
Worth it because this is the best album the Used has made in awhile, and you will like it too!

http://twitter.theused.net/

I have a feeling this will rise up the itunes charts fast. Currently #44 on the itunes alt album chart at 8:45 pst

Ill post results and insights over the next few days! Props Kazy B in New media, and the tech team for coming up with this idea and making it happen!

http://twitter.theused.net/

Listen to the new @wearetheused album #Artwork +2 B-sides for 24 hours only! http://culturej.am/15z #theused