Music Media Watch
MMW-120 -- RIAJ Releases 2007 Figures, Mobile Still Going Strong
April 17, 2008On April 3, the Record Industry Association of Japan officially
released the 'RIAJ Yearbook 2008,' its annual roundup of sales
figures, statistics and trends from the previous year. For Japan Inc's analysis Read Now
MMW-119 -- Japan's Music Media Publishers
March 4, 2008Music Media Watch takes a look at SNS site Mixi's new music station service, RIAJ's sales figures for music downloads in 2007 and Sony's new walkman releases.
MMW-118 -- Japan's Music Media Publishers
February 7, 2008Music Media Watch looks at KDDI's plans to broadcast concerts live on all FM radio stations in Japan, Yamaha starts Y-TV service to promote products and events, Roland to debut new products at Sound Spark 2008 event,Sony's NetJuke software to work with KDDI's LISMO service and NTT DoCoMo makes Melody Call trial previews available for non-subscribers.
MMW-117 -- Japan's Music Media Publishers
January 17, 2008The latest in music media publishing, Music media watch brings to you the cutting edge of what's going on in the music publishing industry in Japan.
MMW-116 -- Mobile Music, A Look Back At 2007
December 13, 2007A welcome return of J@pan Inc's Music Media Watch newsletter, just in time to make provide us with a good round oup of the year's music media highlights. Read Now
MMW-115 -- Japan's New Rolling Robot Music
September 11, 2007J@pan Inc Magazine Presents:
Music Media Watch.
The writer is taking a short break and will return in December.
MMW-114 -- Reflections on Ringtones
August 9, 2007Music Media Watch looks back at market trends concerning polyphonic ringtones and takes a look ahead at where the ringtone innovators are moving to next. Includes a round up of music media news from Japan. Read Now
MMW-113 -- All Eyes on the iPhone
July 6, 2007Music Media Watch brings you cutting edge commentary on Japan's music technology news. This edition focuses on the the iPhone and a potential tie-up with Softbank.
MMW-112 -- JASRAC Wins Again
June 12, 2007Commentary on Japan's music technology news with a feature focus on JASRAC, Japan's main copyright collection organization legal wrangles in the digital music media industry
MMW-111 -- Mobage Town Opens New Corner For Music Creators
May 11, 2007As we reported a few months ago in MMW #108, the recent trend for Japanese mobile content providers has been to set up new services off the main menu 'decks' of the wireless carriers. These off-portal sites are not subject to any approval process, restrictions or oversight by the carriers, but the content provider must generate his own traffic and handle his own billing. So far there have been... Read Now
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