How to combined traditional royalty business model with free? After just read Free by Chris Anderson, my mind is all set at looking at the Free-model. No doubt that Free is on in the talks right now, but how can it be applied on a traditional business model like royalties for artists/composer (really the person(s) [...]

In recent months, Spotify have been on many peoples lips around me. Music streaming services have come and gone, but I have never heard so much good reviews and word of mouth as Spotify. Not only developed in Sweden, but with a great working service and impressive content catalogue this one have all the possibilities [...]

One of this years biggest Swedish game releases, Dice’s Mirrors Edge have one of the best trailer-track. A cozzy chillout/electronica track that really contribute to build up the mood. I don’t think I’m alone wanted to know which song it was. But its clear that one of our biggest Swedish female artist, Liza Miskovsky will [...]

I remember the good old days (1992), when Super Nintendo was the greatest gaming console, and still is according to me. One of my friends had very… different game at that time, Mario Paint. With the game you got a computer mouse, specially made for the SNES and this game. Mario Paint was a compilation [...]

In the expanding game industry, music game have been a new big contributor. Not just in terms of revenue, but capturing new audiences, who haven’t played games before. With games like Rock Band, Guitar Hero and Singstar, the convergence between music and games become even more clear. With new versions, add-ons and downloadable content (DLC) [...]

Swedish music export to Japan have a long and successful history. With artists like Pandora and Meja, Sweden concurred the Japanese market. Those artist and many more were active in mostly in the 90s. That was the age of CDs and album. Sure to say the Japanese audience have a thing for Swedish pop and [...]

The big record labels in the UK, report a increase in revenure from new sources outside the traditional direct sale model. Licensing to movies, commercials, games and other mediums have increased and therefor the profit from those areas. Investments on mobile and online seems to work very well since revenue went up around 55%. It [...]

Figures from the UK shows (not unexpected) the increase in game sales and revenue from 2005 till 2007, while at the same time the music business loosing money, not ether unexpected. For many years now the discussion has been whether games have taken sales shares from the music industry. I would say yes! Its a [...]

One of my alltime favorite game is the sequel to another of my top 5 games, Chrono Cross, sequel to Chrono Trigger. I remember the first time I played Chrono Trigger. It was the spring of 1996, I came home after school and had a bigpackage in the mail. Cause they never released the game [...]

I don’t know if its just, but I can’t seem to get the story strait on the whole Pirate Bay story. In the last year I’ve heard so many versions on what happens. But now it seems like the duel is going down once and for all. Today the prosecution against the site begins in [...]