Today's roundup of music business news and opinion from around the web:

• Chancius Drzewucki deconstruct's Alex Day's YouTube success. [Music Think Tank]

• Tony van Veen from CD Baby and DiscMakers explores nine music promotion strategies at the New Music Seminar. [DiscMakers]

• Are we at the point where a promotion and distribution deal from a clothing store can mean more than a traditional label deal? Ghost Beach takes over American Eagle's Times Square billboard for two weeks. [MTV]

• Nashville readers: for less than $300, you can get schooled at Belmont University's Music Startup Academy and Entertainment & Tech Law Conference, tomorrow. [SonicScoop]

• BMG's consolidation means focusing on building a backlist of licensable music, not on reclaiming their former record label business. [Billboard]