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Internet radio service Pandora is extending its partnership with Facebook through a new Timeline app which will allow users to share what they’re listening to on the social network. The integration is being rolled out for Pandora’s iOS and Android apps, as well as pandora.com, giving users the option to automatically publish their music activity to Facebook. It follows…

We’ve confirmed with Twitter that it has rolled out a new part of its #Music service for the web, charts that we were accustomed to from the company We Are Hunted, that it acquired and now powers the service. The charts are broken up into a few areas: the familiar genre breakdown, as well as some categories like “Superstars”…

Stock markets have had a great run in 2013, but shares of Live Nation and Pandora have fared even better. Live Nation shares are up 46% this year. Pandora shares are up an incredible 78%. Some of the companies' gains can be attributed to the rise in the broader markets. The composite for New York Stock…

Warner Music Group CEO Steve Cooper told analysts this week the label would welcome Apple’s iRadio into the digital radio business, saying it would “lead the charge” for other streaming music services and “accelerate the growth” for broadcast radio’s digital radio services.  The shift from FM to digital helps the record labels because, unlike on-air…

For years, music has operated on selling things -- vinyl, cassettes, CDs and now downloads. Then came advertising on radio and elsewhere. But there’s a third way -- freemium, a combination of free and premium offerings. Examples of this in music are Spotify (free on browsers, premium on mobile) and Pandora (free with ads, premium without…

The notion that music fits certain activities continues to spread at digital music services. Soundrop, known best for its Spotify app, launched what it calls “theme rooms” Tuesday that allow listeners to choose music based on activities. This approach to music discovery was popularized by Songza and adopted by iHeartRadio earlier this year. Soundrop’s new themed…

The Canada-Japan music connection is getting stronger. Several Canadian acts have signed deals with Japanese labels or are set to perform in Japan as a result of the Canadian Independent Music Association (CIMA)’s trade mission to Tokyo and Canadian Music Week (CMW)’s Spotlight on Japan. They include: Singer/songwriter Maylee Todd, who performs at Billboard Live Tokyo on June…

Does my music do better on Facebook or Twitter? Where should my next tour be? Is my new song too repetitive? Musicians can get free answers to these questions and more from BeatDeck, a Y Combinator analytics company launching today. BeatDeck plans to license this data to labels and music stores to help them sign…

Marissa Mayer has officially confirmed today that Tumblr is in fact being acquired by Yahoo for the price of $1.1 billion. Despite speculation that Tumblr’s team could be taken apart and absorbed by Yahoo, Tumblr CEO David Karp assures users that the micro-blogging site will remain the same Tumblr many have come to love. “We’re not turning purple.…

Brighton UK: In the opening keynote of the CMU-programmed Great Escape convention this morning, the CEO of Merlin, Charles Caldas, announced the results of a new survey of the group's members, as the indie labels' digital rights agency turns five years old. The organisation represents over 20,000 independent labels and distributors from over 35 countries,…