Posts Tagged ‘Pussycat Dolls’

Mobile entertainment site Thumbplay is once again reporting some pre-Valentine’s Day statistics, showing that romance is alive and well, at least on our cell phones.

After tracking downloads from November through January, Thumbplay says it saw a 40% rise in love ballad downloads over the same period a year earlier.

The top love-inspired MP3s downloaded as of February 4:

* Tina Turner‘s What’s Love Got To Do With It
* Kanye West‘s Love Lockdown
* Keyshia Cole‘s Heaven Sent

Country music lovers are getting into the mood with:

* Taylor Swift‘s Love Story
* Brad Paisley‘s Waitin’ On A Woman
* Rascal Flatts‘ Love You Out Loud

Folks who think love is overrated have been expressing themselves by downloading:

* Ne-yo‘s So Sick
* Pussycat Dolls‘ I Hate This Part
* Bon Jovi‘s You Give Love A Bad Name

Universal Music appears to be ready to introduce an online video portal similar to Hulu, an anonymous source within the company told CNET News.

The largest of the four major music labels would likely offer music videos as well as other programming related to artists in their catalog, which includes acts such as Kanye West, The Killers, Pussycat Dolls, Mariah Carey, and Amy Winehouse.

An online portal like this would not only give Universal Music a foothold in the digital video space, but would also give them a chance to eke extra advertising revenue out of things like music videos and concert videos, which the music-related cable TV channels (MTV, VH1, etc.) play very little of these days. It would also open the label to branching further out into mobile video; some simple transcoding to fit a 2-inch cell phone screen is all that would take.