One CommentThe Top News of the Week:
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BBC digital chief Erik Huggers announces plans, in an interview, to scrap 200 of the BBC’s websites, with the promise of more quality and less quantity. Guardian
And you can find the Original Guardian announcement here Huggers promises BBC cuts will leave ‘greater space for others’
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Pink Floyd have won a legal battle against EMI, meaning that their album tracks will no longer be sold individually online. BBC
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The BBC is set to begin reinventing its digital radio offering around brand extensions of its main five radio networks after the proposed …
The Top News of the Week
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BBC Radio 6 was recently doomed to closure, a decision which has caused huge outcry from the public. Rumours have spread that the BBC are reconsidering, but BBC director of audio and music Tim Davie suggests otherwise. BBC’s Tim Davie: I’m passionate about 6 Music, too – but it has to go
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iTunes representatives are asking artists to reconsider putting offering their songs on Amazon’s Daily Deal MP3 offers. Media memo
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According to research, music videos account for 30.7% of all content on YouTube. Major Music groups even …
The Top News of the Week
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Three companies have complained that Google uses unfair tactics in the war of the search engines. Google are suspected of keeping advertising prices “artificially high” and manipulating the market search engine to favour their own products, amongst other things, the search engine has come under the scrutiny of it’s main competitors. If found guilty of malpractice, Google could face a fine of up to $2.3 billion: Times
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Wired have taken a look at Google’s influence of Music in the past and present, and make predictions for the …
If you have been living under a rock this Christmas or don’t live in the UK, then you must have been aware of the Xmas battle for Number 1 in the charts: X Factor’s Joe McElderry Vs Rage Against The Machine (RATM). It’s no secret that the power of Facebook made RATM victory, so here at The Worst Kept Secret we took it upon ourselves to have a bit of fun and see what TV reality music stars have the largest presence on Social Media.
We used the big 4: Facebook …
Here are our top 5 news pieces this week:
1: Here’s a list of the most watched videos on YouTube, including music specific videos. Susan Boyle is naturally out in front, with Pitbull, Miley Cyrus and Evian’s Roller Babies advert all making an appearance: Top Youtube vids
2: Last.fm has revealed that Lady Gaga is the year’s most listened to artist. Tracks from her debut album ‘The Fame’ have been played in excess of 18.5 M times by the site’s 35M-strong community: Lady Gaga & Last FM
3: Digital distributor TuneCore has …
