We've just launched a new promotion for all you Dada.net lurkers! Intrigued by our song catalogue (2 million songs from every genre!) but just haven't signed up yet? Well, we've made it impossible to say no. Join our Community and get 3 free MP3s as a thank you - just for signing up! There's nothing to lose! If you like what you hear (and we know you will), then sign up for a monthly subscription - and take advantage of our regular offer of 25 free MP3s (on top of your monthly 15 with $9.99 suscription - just 67 cents per track!)

What are you waiting for? We've got new music this week from Chrisette Michele, Sean Kingston, Ciara, the Datsuns and much more!

Starting today, you can begin logging into Dada.net with the new Facebook Connect option.

We have teamed with Facebook to give you access to your two favorite sites - with just one login!

If you already use Dada.net and also have a Facebook profile, you can easily link the two accounts. This will allow you to access Dada by simply logging into Facebook. To link your Dada and Facebook profiles, log into Dada and click on Account.

Once that's done (and it's easy!), you can interact with your friends on Dada and share on Facebook through your Wall and your friends' News Feeds. Dada.net will also be able to automatically post recent activity back to Facebook.

We are really excited to announce the launch of a new magazine at Dada.net!

Music Bytes by Dada is your new source for all the news about your favorite artists! Get music news, reviews and much more  in your Music Bytes - updated daily with all the news you need to know! Music Bytes is also the place to access our Dada Spot videos - watch as artists like Rick Ross, Asher Roth and An Horse enter the Dada Spot and talk exclusively to Dada about their latest projects.

Get it!

I read in Billboard.Biz today that social networking has overtaken e-mail as the most popular activity on the internet. 67% of internet users use social networking while just 65% use e-mail.

It makes sense. I can e-mail on Facebook and MySpace as well as do everything else those sites offer. I still have a separate e-mail account though and I expect most people do. Which do you check  more often - your e-mail account or your social networking page?

Digital Music News is reporting today that album sales, which have been dismal for years, are continuing their downward slide in 2009. As of the end of February, Soundscan figures show that albums are selling at 11.7% below comparable levels in 2008. Compare that with a 14% decline for all of 2008 - and a 54.6% drop since album sales peaked in 2000.

But there is a silver lining - or at least DMN has found one. They interviewed several music retail analysts earlier this year who predicted a larger drop in album sales than what has actually happened. So, according to earlier predictions, album sales could be  - and should've been - in a lot worse shape.

Luckily, digital sales continue to rise both here at Dada.net and across the other music sites. People are still buying music, it's just the format they want it in has changed.

Nokia reportedly wants to remove DRM from its popular Comes With Music, which means that when a user downloads a song to the phone, the song can then be moved to any other device. Right now, once a song is downloaded to the Nokia phone, it stays on the phone. If a user wants the same song on his MP3 player, he has to download it (and pay for it) separately. There's an interesting item on today's Hits blog.

That's basically what's behind DRM, an industry term meaning Digital Rights Management. The idea behind DRM is that once you download a song to your computer or cell phone or MP3 or iPod, it can't be moved to another device. For several years, DRM was an industry standard. However, there's been a lot of change lately as the music industry tries to adapt to digital trends and savvy customers. As a result, many services, most recently iTunes, have removed DRM from their music. We here at Dada.net have always been DRM-free - once you download one of our tracks, you are free to move it to your MP3 player, iPod, computer or cell phone. It looks like the music revolution is spreading...

The music industry is buzzing with the news that the two biggest ticket agencies - Ticketmaster and Live Nation -  are looking to merge. But the story is about more than the country's two biggest ticket giants headed towards marital bliss. Ticketmaster also owns a successful artist management company and Live Nation is now the record company of superstars like U2 and Madonna. So, a marriage between Ticketmaster and Live Nation could mean that the new combined company could actually manage your favorite band, release its new album and sell tickets to its tour. It's a controversial idea since U.S. business is built on the idea of competition. One-stop shopping might be very intriguing for the artist  but if there's no competition, prices won't stay competitive for the consumer. Billboard has a good run-down of all the pros and cons here. Stay tuned.. this one is far from over.

One of my favorite news and blog sites is Digital Music News. All kinds of good stuff on there, including an item today on Juniper Research forecasting strong gains for full-track downloads, ringback tones and streaming services. Ringtone sales are down but that will likely turn around. All together, Juniper says that global mobile revenues will reach $14.3 billion by 2013.

More and more people are watching videos - and they are choosing to watch it on their mobile phones in addition to on television and the internet.

Neilsen Co. released a report today on the nation's viewing habits and it shows that how we watch television is changing with the times.

Although traditional TV is still the most popular (285 million users), the number of viewers watching video on mobile devices and video (such as DVRs) each grew about 9%. But the number of people watching TV is slowing down while the rate at which people are watching on the internet and on mobile screens is growing quickly.

Is this the end of television as we know it? Where do you get your TV fix?