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BeatPick.com has been featured on DJmag, a UK magazine with national distribution.
It seem we’re also going to get a a 2 page feature on the 17th of august!

We’ll keep you posted…

You can also catch a nice feature about BeatPick on higher-frequency.com

The first 2 questions are:

1. The RIAA has sued more than 20,000 music fans for file sharing, yet file sharing continues to rapidly increase both online and offline. When will you stop suing music fans?
2. The RIAA has sued over 20,000 music fans for file sharing, who have on average paid a $3,750 settlement. That’s over $75,000,000. Has any money collected from your lawsuits gone to pay actual artists? Where’s all that money going?

wow… we really would like to hear RIAA answers… read the remaining questions at: http://www.eff.org/IP/faq/

Digital download sales are mantaining a growing trend: Nielsen SoundScan figures of the US market shows that digital album sales are gone up 125% compared to the same period last year, with single tracks up 77%. This still represent only about 5% of total album sales, but for the album market it marks a more than double increase compared to sales in the same period of 2005.
On the other side, overall sales of physical album dipped 4.2% during the first two quarter of the year.
That’s a drop of 12 million unit.

Check Digital sales fuel record biz in first-half ‘06 and download music sales up, albums down for more detailed figures.