UK and LA based Musicmetric had a big week, announcing yesterday that it closed $4.7 million to expand its music analytics service and other data services for the entertainment industry and today that it has closed a deal to add streaming song data from Spotify to its dashboard. Read More

Hypebot today published a great interview by Larry LeBlanc of CelebrityAccesswith Ted Cohen, Managing Partner of TAG Strategic, one of the leading consultants in the digital media industry. Cohen will be a speaker at DMW Music Conference and co-chair of the DMW Music Leadership Awards to be held in New York City, February 20-21. . Read More

Here's an interesting article from Hypebot about allegations from Merlin, a licensor of Indie music rights, that they have discovered unlicensed music by labels they represent on the new Myspace. Read More

Next Big Sound published its annual report on the State of Online Music with the following takeaway: "Last year was no exception – the growth of social networks, streaming services, online radio and digital downloads is unstoppable, opening up ever more avenues for fans to listen to, discover, and share new music. ". Read More

The NY Post reports that Internet radio service Pandora has agreed to a 25 percent increased in royalties it will pay to music publisher Sony/ATV, a joint venture between Sony Corp. and the Michael Jackson estate. Read More

Amazon.com launched its device-optimized music store today with songs as low as 69 cents. This store, containing a 22-million song catalog, allows both Apple and Android owners the ability of purchasing a song directly on their devices -- something Apple users were unable to do previously -- and play it anywhere. Read More

The Harry Fox Agency, Inc. (HFA), a provider of rights management solutions for the music industry, announced today that it is working with Google Play to deliver rights management services for its digital music service for Android devices and the web. Read More