Universal pursues digital demand via classics site
Universal Music, the world's biggest music company, launched what it billed as the largest online site for classical and jazz music on Wednesday as part of a drive to exploit ...
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Radio competes against downloads, file-sharing, satellite broadcasts
Although iPod remains a four-letter word to many in the radio business, the top podcast on the iTunes chart, week after week, is a radio show: "This American Life," ...
Music industry softens on podcasts
Sony BMG has decided to dip its toes into the world of podcasted music with its recent agreement with ...
20,000 YouTube music videos at your fingertips
20,000 YouTube music videos at your fingertips
UPDATE: The site is no longer online, we suggest you check out Video DownloadHelper. Video DownloadHelper is a FireFox plugin that allows ...
Stream thousands of Rock N’ Roll concert classics for free on “Wolfgang’s Vault”
The site lets you listen to the tons of concert recordings that the venerable concert promoter Bill Graham collected over his more than 30 years in the music biz, which ...
iPod and MP3 Integration In Vehicles, 2007
Integrating iPod connectivity has been a big issue and selling point with vehicle marketing. I have noticed many commercials talk of iPod or MP3 player compatibility and in ...
CBS Records Redux: Venerable Music Label Returns Digitally
But corporate parent CBS Corporation announced Friday that it will resurrect the CBS Records brand name. The original CBS Records was sold to Sony in 1988, and ...
Latest MP3 players come equipped with songs
Customers picking up the latest MP3 players this fall are getting much more than just a device. Increasingly, they're getting free music as well.
To set themselves apart from the pack, ...
More Independents to Sell MP3 Albums
Death Metal is not exactly my preferred genre of pop music, but I have to appreciate Open Grave records decision to sell its music in the unencumbered MP3 format. Recently, ...
British charity wants warning labels on MP3 players
It's hard to be hip when your charity's name includes the words "Royal Institute" and your president is the Rt. Hon. Lord Jack Ashley of Stoke, CH, but the Royal ...
Microsoft Projects Aggressive Portable MP3 Player Demand
Zune may be strongest iPod-killer to date, but is there room for both players to coexist? Apple is currently approaching annual sales volumes of 40 million iPods, and the overall ...
Juliana Hatfield offers honor system downloads
Popular singer-songwriter Juliana Hatfield, who has spanned from near-punk to glittery-pop over her career, is trying something new via her website.
In a manifesto about file-sharing that calls both the big ...
MySpace to Enable Users to Sell Songs
MySpace.com plans to let its 77 million users sell music downloads, another move by corporate parent News Corp. to make the social networking site as profitable as it is popular.
Shawn ...
Samsung to launch music download service
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. (005930.KS) on Friday said it plans to introduce a line of digital music players and a download service, under an agreement with privately held media provider ...
Google MP3 Player found in GMail
A new GMail feature lets you play MP3 files right inside the GMail interface without having to download the MP3 or open an external media player.
When you receive an audio ...
Major Australian Broadcaster Pushes Into Digital Downloads
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation, or ABC, has just dipped into music downloads. According to a recent article in Digital Webcast, the broadcaster has tapped destaMusic.com to power downloads for various ...
The New Stax Label Can Reinvent The Role Of Labels In The Digital Age
The world of pop culture was abuzz last week with Justin Timberlake’s overly candid comments about his drug use. We hope he was stone cold sober when he decided to ...
EMusic’s pitch: Download song – and own it
The smash success of Apple's iPod is paying huge dividends for a less-well-known music industry player, online retailer eMusic.
Apple has sold nearly 60 million iPods since 2001, and music fans ...
Dylan album lands on web
EXERPTS OF CROONING Bob Dylan’s next opus have been accidentally leaked online by, you guessed it, his record company Sony.
The Sony Music Store served up snatches of Modern Times, the ...
In 2005 8% of American Internet users paid for digital music, in 2006 – 23%
As digital music players grow in popularity, so do the number of Americans who download music from the Internet, Solutions Research Group says. Nearly half of all American Internet users ...
