• MySpace Music will launch in September. "The new offering will enable MySpace members to listen to free streaming music as well as purchase song downloads, ringtones, T-shirts and concert tickets," CEO Chris DeWolfe told a conference yesterday. (Fortune)

• The untitled album by rapper Nas tops the album chart this week with sales of 187,000. Lil Wayne's Tha Carter III dropped 15% to 105,000 units. Sales for the week were down 7.9% versus last lear. (Billboard.biz)

• Yahoo Music notified its customers that after September 30th, the final day of its music store, it will stop supporting the DRM tracks they purchased at the store. "...you will not be able to transfer songs to unauthorized computers or re-license these songs after changing operating systems." (Bit Player)

• Here's a really good profile of MP3 aggregator Hype Machine that acts as a primer for the problems faced by many progressive music sites. "There's only one problem: The Hype Machine is still operating in a gray area legally." (Fortune)

• A convention center is being planned for Irving Texas that will have a 6,000-seat concert hall. Live Nation will operate the venue. (Dallas News)

• There's a report, denied by Live Nation, that the San Diego House of Blues may be in danger of closing. (San Diego Reader)

• AOL Music has launched Tour Tracker, a free service that lets users track tours. It's missing so many venues for Nashville that I'll stick to the free local weekly newspapers. (Press release)

• The art and importance of sequencing an album. (The Guardian)