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Downloads Double UK Singles Sales
Escalating music download sales have helped double the size of the U.K. singles market over the past three years, according to figures published by The Official U.K. Charts Company (OCC). Total U.K. singles sales for the first 51 weeks in 2006 alone reached 65.1 million units, according to the ... (02/01) Read
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Gang of Four Release New Music For Free Online

Exclaim | 22/11/07
Legendary post-punkers Gang of Four have announced that they will follow the latest trend of label-less means of releasing music. On Dave Allen's Pampelmoose ... Read

Historic buildings at risk from rock concerts

The Guardian | 14/09/07
Rock concerts at some of the UK's most important historic buildings have put them at risk of damage from powerful bass note vibrations, according to research ... Read

Marilyn's New Soul Mate

Sky Showbiz | 17/04/07
One minute Marilyn Manson and Dita Von Teese are Hollywood's hottest (and most unlikely) couple... But with a blink of an eye it's all done and dusted. ... Read

Scientists Study Sacred Sounds

Wired | 23/03/07
Does your church sing? Or does its message fall flat in a mess of reverberation, boomy bass and muffled speech? Researchers here are investigating the ... Read

Under The Hammer For Music Rising

U2 France | 27/03/07
Edge's Gibson Les Paul, Lennon's sunglasses, Springsteen's hand-written lyrics and a signed sax from Bill Clinton are among 200 pieces of music memorabilia ... Read

The Rise of a Musical Superpower

Le Courrier International | 10/04/07
Mahler's Eighth may or may not be the greatest symphony ever composed, but it's surely the loudest: at its premiere in Munich in 1910, the impresario ... Read

Yoko Ono's double life

International Herald Tribune | 15/12/06
The cultural machine of Yoko Ono has many moving parts, and none of them have slowed. Her creative work has taken her to Reykjavik, Iceland to Liverpool, ... Read

Kate Bush returns after 12 years

BBC | 02/09/05
Singer Kate Bush will release her first album in 12 years in November - a double album entitled Aerial. Read

Warner Tells Kid Rock To Denounce File Sharing; He Denounces Warner Instead

Techdirt | 19/06/08 iMuzique
While Warner Music had claimed that it was getting away from attacking fans who wanted to download, it appears that it still has a long way to go. Atlantic ... More

Labels eye variable pricing for digital sales

Reuters | 07/06/08 iMuzique
Arguably the No. 1 item on record labels' to-do list for the year is, "Establish variable pricing for digital downloads." As luck would have it, ... More

Virgin warns illegal internet music downloaders

Telegraph | 06/06/08 iMuzique
Teenagers building vast music collections by downloading songs illegally from the internet should beware. Their access to free music faces being cut off ... More

Music Industry Gurus' Five Point Plan to Save their Business

Wired News | 18/05/08 iMuzique
Researchers at The Leading Question and experts from Music Ally have determined that fewer people are regularly paying for downloads, while the percentage ... More

Rifflet, Like Twitter For Music

Gizmodo | 18/05/08 iMuzique
I like to believe that all of us have rock star alter egos. For most of us, these inner rock beasts sleep latently, awaiting the proper heartbreak or drug ... More

Music execs stuck in old time rock'n'roll

The Guardian | 11/05/08 iMuzique
It is May 9 1996, and you are a Senior Executive at a Very Big Record Label, in charge of Future Developments. This "internet" thing is being talked ... More

When DRM detonates your music collection

Timesonline | 11/05/08 iMuzique
Imagine if you had a bedroom full of CDs and decided to buy a new player one day, only to discover that none of your albums would play on the new system. ... More

Guitar Hero Band Releases First Full Album

Wired News | 02/05/08
Plastic ax-wielding players of Guitar Hero II surely remember the dub/metal hybrid "Elephant Bones" by a band called That Handsome Devil. The song managed ... Read

Thom Yorke: Radiohead's stunt was 'one-off'

The Globe and Mail | 01/05/08
They turned the music sales model on its head, but indie rockers Radiohead won't be repeating their decision to let fans choose what to pay for their ... Read

Sony/ATV streaming, limited download ban

p2pnet.net | 08/01/08
The Harry Fox Agency has been told to halt all future licensing of its product for streaming or limited downloads. Behind the order is Sony/ATV Music Publishing, ... Read

Warner Music Suing MP3 Search Engine Seeqpod

Silicon Alley Insider | 23/01/08
Warner Music Group (WMG) is suing Seeqpod, the most popular of a new breed of music search engine/players with a new twist on the original Napster strategy ... Read

Reznor Reveals Sales On Saul Williams Project

Billboard | 05/01/08
Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor has posted the download and sales numbers for "The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of NiggyTardust" the Saul Williams ... Read

Seeking Truly Mobile Music

Wall Street Journal | 08/10/07
Last week Starbucks began testing a new service letting those with iTunes on their laptop, or carrying an iPhone, identify and download songs playing in ... Read

Nine Inch Nails' Open Source Remix Album Available as Free Torrent

Wired News | 11/09/07
Over the past few months, "multiple judges" at 9inchnails.com listened to over 200 submissions to the Nine Inch Nails open source remix contest and the ... Read

Digital sales boost Universal Music

The Guardian | 25/07/07
Universal, the world's biggest music group, today flagged up strong UK sales and rapid growth in downloads despite a tough market for recorded music. ... Read

The next big Ting?

Boston.com | 16/06/08 iMuzique
The British dance-pop duo the Ting Tings are having the kind of year most musicians dream about: hit singles in the UK, a buzzed-about showcase at South ... More

Music City can turn a citified girl into a country-hummin' gal

Kansascity.com | 18/05/08 iMuzique
The last time I listened to country music was the summer after my senior year of high school when I worked in a sweatshop in Tyrone, Pa., sewing seams ... More

A Scientific Attempt To Create Most Annoying Song Ever

Wired News | 18/04/08
Russian-American artists Vitaly Komar and Alex Melamid took an online poll in the '90s to find out which musical elements people found the most irritating. ... Read

Behind the music: The No 1 template

The Guardian | 15/04/08
This week's No 1 single is, yet again, Estelle's American Boy. It's one of those infectious tunes that seemed destined to be the soundtrack of the summer ... Read

Music File Compressed 1,000 Times Smaller than MP3

Newswise | 03/04/08
Researchers at the University of Rochester have digitally reproduced music in a file nearly 1,000 times smaller than a regular MP3 file. The music, ... Read

Disney site music to parents' ears?

The Indianapolis Star | 22/05/07
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Habbo, Music and the Record Labels

Digital Media Wire | 07/11/07
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Digital-Lifestyles | 20/03/07
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'Dont download this song', now the website

Dontdownloadthissong.com | 25/08/06
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How Shakira's 'Hips' shook the music industry

Los Angeles Times | 06/04/07
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S.F. Opera patron donates $35 million

San Francisco Gate | 04/10/06
At a time when the San Francisco Opera is looking to shore up its finances, the company has received $35 million from longtime patron and supporter Jeannik ... Read

Wrong Arcade Fire Song Offered on iTunes

Spin | 29/12/06
The Arcade Fire's touted new single, "Intervention," was supposed to be made available on iTunes tomorrow (Dec. 28), but due to a flub up at the band's ... Read

Toshiba preps 16GB flash for music players, phones

Electronista | 20/04/07
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Mika Scores Unprecedented String of UK #1s

Businesswire | 13/02/07
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The Single Returns To Haunt Music Biz

Showbuzz | 11/05/07
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Band Wants Paris Hilton To 'Go Away'

CMJ | 04/05/07
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Bo Diddley dead at age 79, spokesman says

Orlando Sentinel | 02/06/08 iMuzique
Bo Diddley, a founding father of rock 'n' roll whose distinctive "shave and a haircut, two bits" rhythm and innovative guitar effects inspired legions ... More

Idol Dominates Charts: Is This The Day The Music Died?

Hypebot | 30/05/08 iMuzique
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New MP3 Revolutionizes Way You Listen to Music

The Korea Times | 23/05/08 iMuzique
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TV5 | 18/05/08 iMuzique
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Guitar Hero Band Releases First Full Album

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Is the Internet Turning Musicians Into Buskers?

Wired News | 01/05/08
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“American Idol” Contestant David Cook Tops Amazon MP3 Chart, Then Vanishes

Rolling Stone | 23/04/08
After enjoying last week as the top-selling album at the Amazon MP3 store, American Idol contestant David Cook's 2006 album Analog Heart was pulled from ... Read

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The Independent | 13/01/08
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Radiohead top UK album chart

The Register | 07/01/08
Radiohead's In Rainbows has climbed straight to the top of the UK album chart in the week following its physical release on CD and vinyl, apparently proving ... Read

Global guitar star is born on the Web

Times of India | 12/09/06
South Korean student Lim Jeong-hyun has basked in 5 minutes and 20 seconds of fame nearly 9 million times over. Lim, 22, was identified by the Media about ... Read

Oasis, Jamiroquai to follow Radiohead

Telegraph | 09/10/07
Some of the music industry's biggest names are considering offering their music free online following the success of the experiment by the band Radiohead ... Read

Hendrix Heir Sues Over Jimi-Branded Vodka

TMZ | 09/03/07
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Arrest that stanza! lyric sites a target

New York Post | 17/09/07
Music publishers have quietly stepped up their efforts to shut down popular Web sites that publish lyrics to songs without their permission - and are demanding ... Read

Meet the future of pop music

The Guardian | 20/04/07
If you're in the mood to feel disturbed by the British music scene, a glance at the album chart usually does the trick. Sure enough, this year's bestsellers ... Read

The new girl power

The Telegraph | 17/11/07
It's Saturday night in the Soho Revue Bar, a venue once advertised as the "world centre of erotic entertainment". The London club still has the red ... Read

Latin music fans going mobile in Spain

Reuters | 13/11/07
The 500-year-old cultural, linguistic and historical bridge linking Spain and Latin America has shrunk to the size of a mobile phone, at least in terms ... Read