Next Big Sound a startup that tracks online popularity of music and artists published a study called ” 2011 State of Online Music”: The 2011 State of Online Music report includes major trends and highlights from 2011: overall consumption numbers, top networks and their most popular artists and days, the top 50 artists of 2011, [...]

Information is beautiful site published a nice infographic (Word cloud) of 21 top music albums of 2011 (according critics) :  The Top 21 Albums of 2011 from 120 Top 10 Lists via kwout

Kanye West presented his first fashion collection in Lycé Henri IV in Paris (The best school in Paris, France?). It’s funny for someone whose 1st music album was called “College Drop-out”.  Kanye West rhabille la mode | Next via kwout

MOG is a streaming music service like Spotify that advertise 12 Millions songs. They just anounce a free version (Unfortunately it doesn’t work outside the US): The MOG Blog via kwout MOG via kwout The MOG Blog  

There are beautiful photos after the jump: Jennifer Lopez for TOUS Spring 2011 Campaign by Ellen von Unwerth via kwout

NPR Planet Money Blog published a podcast on the making of the Song Of The Summer taking Rihanna’s Man Down as case study. The Friday Podcast: Manufacturing The Song Of The Summer : Planet Money : NPR via kwout

Spotify is a new Streaming service to listen to music. There are 3 options available (Free, 0.99 € day pass, or 9.99 € for a monthly subscription). For the free option, a Beta invite is normally required but it’s possible to register to the service straight away through this link. I came across this service [...]

I came accross 2 good 2007 Best albums review publications that may be use to discover independent artist: Yahoo Music Blog: Top 100 albums of 2007 by Robert of the Radish. I discovered in this list for instance 100 Days 100 Nights by Sharon Jones. The Best Albums of 2007: #1 to #10 – The Y! [...]

The second single from overpowered. It sounds like a "nineties" song.

Here is the first single from Roisin Murphy (former MOLOKO’s singer) new album Overpowered. It’s disco-pop at its best. There is a review from pitchforkmedia here.