This week on Digital Music Trends Andrea Leonelli, Darren Hemmings (@mr_trick), Eliot Van Buskirk (@listeningpost) and Eamonn Forde (@eamonn_forde) discuss the digital music news of the past week.

In the show – which also includes a segment on mobile music making apps by Ashley Eldson – we talk about Apple’s radio rumours and implications, Bruce Willis and digital music inheritance, Spotify’s latest rumours, the importance of Playlists and Lady Gaga’s forthcoming album app – this and much more on this week’s Digital Music Trends.

Here a few links to the stories that we mention/talk about:

Apple & Music Streaming / iRadio?
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/07/technology/apple-plans-to-challenge-pandora-in-web-radio.html?_r=3
http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2012/09/08/links-08-sept-apple-eyes-up-internet-radio-and-pandora/
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443589304577637861146885218.html

Bruce Willis and the lifespan of digital rights
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/shortcuts/2012/sep/03/bruce-willis-v-apple-owns-music-ipod?newsfeed=true
Bruce Willis and the ‘When Owning Doesn’t Actually Mean Owning’ Conundrum

NY Times Blog on Spotify losing money to lure in paying subscribers
http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/05/spotify-is-said-to-profit-from-its-subscribers-but-lose-more-luring-them/
http://evolver.fm/2012/09/06/music-is-still-too-expensive-to-be-free-too-free-to-be-expensive/
http://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2012/09/spotifys-da-wallach-explains-how-spotify-pays-artists.html
http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/permalink/2012/120905streaming
http://musically.com/2012/09/10/spotify-tipped-for-web-client-and-mobile-apps-platform/

Gaga incites fans to ask for iPads for Christmas so they can experience her new album in full. Is the Bjork-like experience a fad or can artists use apps as a viable distribution method?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/sep/07/lady-gag-artpop-interactive-app?newsfeed=true
http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/industry/digital-and-mobile/lady-gaga-says-new-album-artpop-will-also-1007936852.story

Will more artists follow in her and Bjork’s footsteps or are dev costs still too high for most artists to see a return on something like this? http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/industry/record-labels/business-matters-why-more-artists-will-follow-1007941152.story

Have a great week and ’till next time!

Andrea Leonelli
http://www.digitalmusictrends.com
twitter.com/digimusictrends

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