• Vodafone UK has launched Vodafone Music, a new mobile music store available on select Vodafone Live! Handsets. Singles and albums cost on average £0.99 ($1.93) and £7.99 ($15.58) respectively. (Music Week)

• The MySpace Music CEO short list. (TechCrunch)

• YouLicense.com, an online music licensing marketplace, today announced it has secured Series A funding and has named Reavis Daniel Moore as chairman of its Board of Directors. (Press release)

• Due to increased demand for its products, Gibson Guitar plans to increase its general labor and manufacturing workforce by approximately 200 people. (Music Row)

• The BBC and IBM are working on an online music chart called The Sound Index that will track various web sites and list the most popular 1,000 artists at any one time. "The more blog mentions, comments, plays, downloads and profile views an artist or track has, the higher up the Sound Index they are. So, the Sound Index is a music buzz index controlled entirely by the public." Great. Now fly-by-night blog buzz will be be charted. Or you could visit Pitchfork every day. (BBC, via Techdirt)

• A survey has found that online mobile social networkers consume about twice as much media as non-social networking mobile subscribers. (mi2n.com)

• The Pittsburgh Steelers will purchase for $1.3 million a hot property near Heinz Field and turn it into an entertainment venue. (Tribune-Review)

• An update on Google China's music search. "A cursory sweep of the site shows that many top charting Vivendi SA’s Universal Music and EMI Group Ltd. artists are present and downloadable." (WSJ's China Journal)

• Reuters was kind enough to piece together a timeline of Sony BMG's courtship, joint venture and goodbye. (Reuters)

• Four general rules for digital startups based on the failure of Social.fm. "1. Focus. If you can't describe your service in a single sentence, you're doing too much." That goes for any standalone business. (Digital Noise)

[music jobs] New York University is seeking a Department Chair for The Clive Davis Department of Recorded Music.