Monday, February 11th, 2008
Daily News: Monday
Grammy Winners:
Amy Winehouse takes home five Grammys, Kanye West scores four!
Record Of The Year: Amy Winehouse - Rehab
Album of The Year: Herbie Hancock - River: The Joni Letters
Song Of The Year: Amy Winehouse - Rehab
Best New Artist: Amy Winehouse
Best Female Pop Vocal Performance: Amy Winehouse - Rehab
Best Male Pop Vocal Performance: Justin Timberlake - What Goes Around…Comes Around
Best Rock Album: Foo Fighters - Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace
Best Rock Song: Bruce Springsteen - Radio Nowhere
Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals: Maroon 5 - Makes Me Wonder
Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals: The White Stripes - Icky Thump
Best Female Country Vocal: Carrie Underwood - Before He Cheats
View the complete list of winners here!
Sweden’s largest music rights organization pursuing legal action against Pirate Bay: The organization told The Local, a Swedish news source: “We want to sit down with the ISPs and discuss how we can work together to enable their customers to pay - via their internet subscription - for the music streaming through the providers’ networks, thereby allowing them to become legal music surfers. It will all become possible by ISPs entering into licensing agreements with STIM and other rights holders, just like radio stations, retail chains and sporting venue.” (The Local)
Yahoo reject Microsoft offer: After a series of meetings over the past week, Yahoo’s board determined that the $31 per share offer “massively undervalues” Yahoo. The company is unlikely to consider any offer below $40 per share. (WSJ)
Public done with social networking sites? Recent numbers indicate that MySpace and Facebook are having a hard time convincing its users to stick around. It seems like people are getting bored. Time for the sites to step it up a notch and be even more innovative!
Average Visits Per Visitor:
MySpace: Down .1% m/m, down 11.6% y/y
Facebook: Down 3.3%, down 12.3%
Total Audience: Up 6.7%, down 1.8%
Total Uniques:
MySpace: Down .4% m/m, up 11.6% y/y
Facebook: Down 2.3%, up 78.6%
Total Audience: Up .3%, up 4.9%
However, MySpace seems to be the winner in this small fiasco. The Fox-owned social networking giant keeps growing more than Facebook, as the numbers below indicate:
Total Minutes:
MySpace: Up 13.3% m/m, flat y/y
Facebook: Down .7%, up 80.5%
Total Audience: Up 8.3%, up 9.2%
Total Pages Viewed:
MySpace: Up 13.1% m/m, up 8.6% y/y
Facebook: Down 1.9%, up 23%
Total Audience: Up 8.5%, up 12.3%
Average Minutes Per Visitor:
Myspace: Up 13.7% m/m, down 10.4% y/y
Facebook: Up 1.6%, up 1.1%
Total Audience: Up 7.9%, up 4.1%
