Direct Link to the MP3: http://bit.ly/15On7u

An interview with Adam Wexler, CEO of Rank ‘Em www.gorankem.com
If you’d like to try out the service, request an invite on their website – you can use the special code DMT for instant access but be quick! It’s limited to the first 20 users.

Rank’Em also have a Kickstarter funding pledge running for another three weeks, so if you like the site and would like to contribute go to:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1003234199/help-us-keep-rank-em-rockin/backers/new

Links to the news stories:

Spotify’s deal with the label surfaces
http://www.thelocal.se/21170/20090807 

Spotify secures a new round of funding
http://www.forbes.com/2009/08/04/spotify-funding-investment-markets-equities-music.html

Spotify in talks with mobile network 3
http://www.nma.co.uk/news/spotify-in-talks-to-offer-music-app-to-subscribers-on-3/3003073.article

Warner Music takes a hit in quarterly reports but holds out better than expected.
http://www.reuters.com/article/industryNews/idUSTRE5753R220090806
http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2009/08/06/ap6750441.html

Itunes launching in Mexico, how does that affect the market?
http://www.reuters.com/article/industryNews/idUSTRE57700Z20090808

Big Champage launches an interactive data gathering source that is sure to bring in a lot of industry subscribers.
http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/08/inside-bigchampagnes-music-panopticon/

Rhapsody announces layoffs
http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20090806/sources-layoffs-at-rhapsody/?mod=ATD_rss

Midomi secures extra funding so that us hummingbirds can keep humming on!
http://venturebeat.com/2009/08/03/midomi-lets-you-identify-music-by-humming-hits-no-1-iphone-paid-music-app/