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This week at the Digital Music Forum East, in a snow covered New York City, NPD Group Analyst Russ Crupnick had great news for artists using Online Radio as part of their promotional strategy stating that 'Online radio services lead to a 41% increase in paid downloads.' You can read more HERE on CNET Crupnick compared online radio services to free streaming-music sites like Spotify that he says 'lead to a 13% decrease in paid downloads.' A spokesman for spotify responded saying that 'there is other data out there to prove the exact opposite of that report' Spotify Hits Back at Claims of Download Canabalization And of course what debate in this new music business model, still in it's very infancy, would be of any note if there was not at least one more way to look at it? Enter wired.com with a great article titled... Of Course On-Demand Music Replaces Sales - It's Supposed To Here at Jango we're more than pleased with this postive report about onlin...

Here's a quick interview with Brooklyn's Dead Stars who recently had one of the top 5 PopScores for the week. Great Sound, Great Band ! Jango: So when did you start playing music? Dead Stars: We’ve been together for about two years now. We were all in different bands and one day we decided to do something different so we formed Dead Stars. J: And where are you based? DS: We live in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn . There’s a really good scene going on right now, though sometimes it can be a bit over saturated. J: Tell us about the 3 major influences on your music? DS: If you mean other bands then it would probably be My Bloody Valentine, Dinosaur Jr. and Pavement. If you mean in general then I’d say staring out the window, sandwiches and sleeping. J: How would you describe your sound? DS: Psychedelic Indie Grunge J: Do you have any big releases coming up? DS: We plan to head back into the studio next month to record some new songs. Our plan is ...

This week we thought we'd take a closer look at the band and artist names in our Airplay community to see what popped out. So below is a word cloud of the most popular ones. After seeing this we started to wonder, how did you pick your band/stage name? Drop your answer, band name/stage name and link to your Jango profile in the comments.

Here's the video to 'Pray For You' from one of our top PopScore artists for the past week, Jaron and The Long Road to Love. Great Lyrics, check it out.

Once again here's the top 5 Jango PopScore bands for last week. There's some great stuff here so drop them a line in the comments section and say hello Artist: Jaron and The Long Road To Love Jaron, of Jaron and The Long Road to Love, is a fresh face on the new-Country scene. His is a crisp blend of powerfully smooth vocals and a diverse skill-set, conveying a simple message, unclouded by over drawn ironies or artificial packaging. Click to hear Jaron and The Long Road To Love: @jango.com" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"> Pray For You Artist: Jess Turner ...

The big question for the past week on the blog has been... What makes you a fan on Jango? So in the spirit of utter transparency we want to lay it out in the simplest of terms here. We have developed this criteria in order to deliver the best value we can to all of our bands and artists, so here goes... - On the 'Make 'Em Break 'Em' overlay clicking 'Make 'Em' makes you a fan - On the artist's profile clicking 'I'm A Fan' makes you a fan - Clicking 'Add To Station' makes you a fan as well as starting a station with an artist - Clicking the 'Like It' & 'Love It' smileys in the player makes you a fan. - Visiting a profile through a www.jango.com/music/band+name link, such as the one we provide you in the 'Promote' tab of your dashboard , can make you a fan...If you are logged-in to Jango or have a cookie as a registered Jango listener, following a link does not make you a fan nor does the single act of visi...

Every week we send an email blast to millions of Jango listeners, highlighting the best new releases in Pop, Rock, RnB, Rap, Country, and Electronica. Now, top PopScoring bands will be featured right alongside major artists. Aside from hopefully rewarding artists with lots of organic plays, this is a great opportunity to show an audience that emerging acts can stand up right next to the biggest music on Jango. So there's yet another reason to hone your targeting, engage your audience, and make sure you put your best foot forward. Login to airplay.jango.com and figure out how you can wind up in the Jango Listener Newsletter.

iTunes nears 10 Billion Downloads - Hypebot “iTunes changed the way you buy music, making songs and albums available for download, day or night,” declared Apple on the site. “Seven years later, we’re about to celebrate our biggest milestone for music, yet—10 billion songs downloaded.” As part of the promotion iTunes is also offering a rare glimpse at its most downloaded songs of all time. Read more HERE

Once again, for the two weeks past, we bring you the top 10 bands on Jango.com. Check 'em out here and show them your support in the comments. There's no better way to get ahead than by supporting others and this is the perfect forum. Congrats gang !!! Artist: Angie Mattson After stints in North Carolina, Tokyo, and Florida, Angie sold nearly everything and moved onto a small sailboat. She spent a year in the West Indies learning guitar and writing songs, which people liked enough to convince her to move to Los Angeles and pursue music. Click to hear Angie Mattson: Thank You Artist: Khalil Khalil Coe...

Here we are with The Sweaters who had one of the top 5 PopScores last week Jango: So when did you start in music ? The Sweaters: We collectively started playing music together around 2001 but began developing and experimenting with our own sound shortly before we came to Nashville, TN in 2008. Jango: And where are you based ? The Sweaters : We are originally from East Peoria, IL but we came to Nashville, TN for the music scene here which is not all country but a variety of Indie, Rock, Pop, and other genres. There are a lot of interesting bands coming out of Nashville right now and it's definitely a good place to be playing with many great venues. Jango: Tell us your three most important influences ? The Sweaters : Some major influences of The Sweaters are Pinback, Nirvana, and The Postal Service. Each of these bands have qualities that inspired us such as Pinbacks melodies and arrangements, Nirvanas lyrics and originality, and The Postal Service's use of time-...

Hello Airplayers, We had such a great response in the comments section on our recent blog post titled 'Seeing A Rush Of Fans?' that we decided it deserved a whole new post as an update for clarification. So after reviewing all the comments we want to address everything here as simply and as straightforward as possible...so here goes. - If your fan count went down, it was only because we used to count 'Guest Listeners' as Fans. We decided going forward that since there was no way to communicate with 'Guests' we would no longer include them in the count. - Most bands actually see an increase in fans. The reason for this is we looked back over the last year and found all of the listeners who had been adding your Band into their stations and playlists. These people have been updated to be your fans. This is what created the rush of new fans earlier this week. - Since the above mentioned 'historical' fans did not make these positive ratings just recently th...

More big news from Jango Airplay this week: As part of our continued efforts to improve your Airplay Dashboard, the Play Stats Page has received an update! See for yourself at under the Reports tab... And this beauty isn't just skin deep. In addition to better organization, the new layout now gives you an opportunity to view your historical play data. Not only can you get totals or break out the plays & likes by song, but you can also view week-over-week changes in total, paid & organic plays, song likes, new fans, and profile views. As always, there could be a variety of uses for data like this. One thing worth trying might be choosing different similars every week for a month, then going back and charting what effect the changes had on likes and fans. Click over to and see what you can come up with.

We're always updating things around here at Jango Airplay with a goal of making it the best promotional platform available for bands and artists. Because of this you may have seen a few changes in your 'Fans' tab. First, we removed all of your fans who were just 'Guest Users' of Jango meaning that they are not 'Registered Users'. Bands and artists can only communicate with registered users so this should streamline things for you. Guest users will still be able to opt in to leave their e.mail address for you though but cannot become a fan unless they register. Next you may have noticed a recent influx of new fans and new fan e.mails over the last 24 hours. This is because we went back in our database and updated all of our registered users that have interacted positively with your band and meet the new criteria to 'become a fan'. So now you have this new group of fans to communicate with as well. Going forward all of your new fans will be registered ...

Here we are with a quick interview of Get Stellar who had one of the top PopScores last week. Jango: So when did you start in music ? Get Stellar: Andrew and I have both been playing music for some time now. I got into music production during high school in the late nineties, using free "mod tracker" software on a crusty old computer and sending my songs to the online tracking community for feedback. I also played bass in the school jazz band and DJed at house parties and school discos. After school I started a live five-piece Jazzy/Housey dance band. Looking back, the music was pretty bad but because we were the only ones doing the live-dance-act thing at the time we got plenty of gigs. Everyone in the band was busy working or studying and no one had any time or money so it only lasted a year. Andrew was always in bands at school and then moved on to his own one-man-band acoustic rock solo project, writing, singing and playing guitar. We met through a mutual friend one ni...

Hello Airplayers, Some of you have noticed and dropped us an e.mail wondering why your Jango PopScore fluctuates early in the week, usually Monday through Wednesday, and then levels out towards the end of the week. So here's a simple explanation and diagram for you so you can get a better understanding. First and foremost, PopScore is relative. Relative to what you may ask ? The Jango PopScore is relative based on the cumulative amount of 'band activity' at any given moment during the week. 'Band activity' we define as the following; number of bands participating, total spins and fan ratings. Therefore, the more overall 'band activity' taking place the more stable your PopScore. We hope this clears things up a bit...and keep those questions and comments coming -Jango Jugglers

Hey Airplayers, just a quick update from the Jugglers here. We're starting to feature some of the artists with the best PopScores in our weekly listener newsletter. This newsletter goes out to millions of registered Jango users letting them know what's new and what's hot in Pop, Rock, R&B, Country, Hip Hop & Electro. Airplay artists will be presented right alongside major artists like Justin Timberlake, Los Campesinos, Jay Z, Gretchen Wilson & more. We're working hard here to create more and more opportunities for the artists that resonate the most with Jango listsners so go to Jango.com and set yourself up with a listener account as well so you can get the weekly newsletter sent right to you...& stay tuned right here to Jango Airplay for more

We follow our artists pretty closely, and there have been some great success stories in the last few months. Got one of your own? Tell us about it right here in the comments section! From Phil Vassar to Mikey Wax, Airplay artists aren't just building buzz online, they're getting out there and translating success from one arena to another. By sharing your stories, hopefully we can all learn a little about how that's done. So click through to the comments section and tell us about your biggest recent successes in the comments section. What were they? How did you do it? What do they mean for your band? Maybe what worked for you will work for other Airplay artists and vice versa.

Mikey Wax is a rising singer/songwriter from New York who was one of the first artists to use Jango airplay for his single "In Case I Go Again" off his debut album "Change Again." Since placing the song on Jango, Mikey's career has continued to develop strongly, most recently being selected to open for Howie Day on his up-coming US tour. More Tour Info HERE Mikey's song "In Case I Go Again" had won the Unsigned Artist Contest held by the top-40 radio station 97.9FM WRMF in South Florida, and shortly after he placed it on Jango in hopes of reaching a larger audience. The song quickly received several thousand "likes" and hundreds of new fans worldwide. The music video for the single, released last May, has currently received over 45,000 hits on Youtube. The combination of factors has lead to his album charting on the iTunes top 100 pop albums in the US, Canada, and UK. We are proud to be sponsoring Mikey on his up-coming tour opening for H...

The Grammys are fun but always so predictable and with such a narrow field of play. So to keep things fresh here's this weeks Jango Airplay winners with the top PopScore for the week past. Artist: Antahlyzah Antahlyzah is a Chicago-born emcee whose "primary goal is to elevate the consciousness of all of those that listen to [his] music." His solo album, entitled Truth Seeker was released in the summer of 2009. Click to hear Antahlyzah: 1 Da Luv Artist: Brian King Brian King is a gifted saxophonist with a jazzy yet soulful contemporary style. His latest release, Carribean Sunset, is rhythm and jazz fused with a smooth yet funky compliment of...