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Mika Scores Unprecedented String of UK #1s
Casablanca/Universal Republic recording artist, Mika, is making history in the UK only weeks before his acclaimed new album Life In Cartoon Motion debuts in the U.S. on March 27. The 23 year-old phenom went straight to #1 on the UK album charts this week with his 11-song disk, moving 107,732 copies of the eclectic new album, and adding to an unparalleled string of #1s for a debut artist: #1 single “Grace Kelly,” which has held the top spot now for 4 weeks running. (13/02) ReadYou may also like
Musician Jay's music is given life after his death
WalesOnline | 30/06/08 
A YOUNG musician is to release an album from beyond the grave.
Singer-songwriter Matthew Jay, who drew comparisons with folk legend Nick Drake, died ... More
Can bad TV save a bad music career?
Times Colonist | 23/06/08
Janet Jackson will soon be roaming the backstreets and church choirs of America on the hunt for "the next big thing" in pop. Naturally, it's all for ... More
Cops on song, criminals face the music
Times of India | 11/05/08
Tirhut range DIG Arvind Pandey does not find fighting crime and music contradictory. "A recent report in America suggests that music makes police officers ... More
When DRM detonates your music collection
Timesonline | 11/05/08
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
Amazon's CreateSpace Puts Out-Of-Print Music Back On The Market
InformationWeek | 06/05/08
CreateSpace, a subsidiary of Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN), on Monday expanded its print-on-demand CD publishing service in an effort to put an end to the concept ... 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
“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
Anti-Piracy Voice-Overs to Prevent CDs from Leaking
Torrentfreak | 16/01/08
This is the message printed on the cover of protected CDs. Most filesharers are probably familiar with the “for your consideration” messages displayed ... Read
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
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
Yorke Addresses EMI Renegotiation Report
Billboard | 01/01/08
Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke has responded to a report that his band demanded an exorbitant advance from EMI for its next album as well as control of ... Read
Freed OiNK Admin Posts Google Link to Music Sharing Alternatives
Wired News | 30/10/07
The site administrator of OiNK.cd, having been released from custody after his arrest last week for running a torrent tracker site that specialized in ... Read
Chavez releases his first CD
Novosti | 02/10/07
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has released his first CD of traditional Venezuelan and Mexican music, entitled Canciones de Siempre or Songs for all ... 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
Chaser of Beer, Rock or Bebop With Your Bach?
The New York Times | 16/06/08
YOU might not expect to find a polished young ensemble like the Parker String Quartet playing music by Beethoven, Bartok and Ligeti — or collaborating ... More
Arcade Fire singer undergoes surgery
Ireland on Line | 20/04/07
Arcade Fire frontman Win Butler has undergone a successful operation after a string of health problems. The singer, who turned 27 on Saturday, had been ... Read
Courtney Love is set to auction off a string of Kurt Cobain's belongings for charity.
Gigwise | 01/05/07
The Hole frontwoman says she has little use for most of the items and wants to give away them at the famous auction house Christies. Love said: “I'm ... Read
The Good News About 'GooTube'
Wired News | 17/10/06
Everyone knows that Google bought YouTube last week, but it's hard to say what this so-called GooTube video service will look like a year from now. Just ... Read
Britney Spears jokes about 'panty-gate' paparazzi furore
Turkishpress.com | 08/12/06
Pop princess Britney Spears has spoken out about a string of recent photos showing her partying minus her underwear, admitting that she had probably taken ... Read
Play Mozart to tackle poor behaviour, teachers urged
The Guardian | 29/09/06
Teachers should play Mozart in the classroom to help calm unruly children and improve their work, according to a new book published today. The soothing ... Read
For iTunes hacker, the freedom of the open code
CNET | 24/11/06
He was 15 years old at the time and quickly became known in hacker circles as "DVD Jon," a wunderkind of reverse engineering who tore down cumbersome ... Read
Musician Jay's music is given life after his death
WalesOnline | 30/06/08
A YOUNG musician is to release an album from beyond the grave.
Singer-songwriter Matthew Jay, who drew comparisons with folk legend Nick Drake, died ... More
Average teenager's iPod has 800 illegal music tracks
Timesonline | 16/06/08
Teenagers and students have an average of more than 800 illegally copied songs each on their digital music players, the largest academic survey of young ... More
The next big Ting?
Boston.com | 16/06/08
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
Death of the folk song
Nationmedia.com | 16/06/08
THE TURKANA CULTURAL FESTIval, organised by the German Embassy, debuted recently to showcase the promise of a region that lacks the advantage of numbers ... More
Day the (theme) music died?
Winnipeg Sun | 07/06/08
The CBC is set to launch a song-writing contest open to all Canadians in hopes of finding a new theme song for Hockey Night In Canada, the head of CBC ... More
Virgin warns illegal internet music downloaders
Telegraph | 06/06/08
Teenagers building vast music collections by downloading songs illegally from the internet should beware. Their access to free music faces being cut off ... More
Idol Dominates Charts: Is This The Day The Music Died?
Hypebot | 30/05/08
No offense to Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper or Don McLean, but I think we may be witnessing the actual day the music died and this time I can even name the ... More
Let's face the music
The Guardian | 28/05/08
It's worth entering the Eurovision song contest, and indeed worth losing, just to hear Terry Wogan attempt to have a huff about partiality on his way ... More
New MP3 Revolutionizes Way You Listen to Music
The Korea Times | 23/05/08
If you are a serious guitar-master wannabe and you want to focus on the tune of Brian May's guitar and don't want to hear Freddie Mercury's voice and ... More
Rifflet, Like Twitter For Music
Gizmodo | 18/05/08
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
Enigmatic appeal
The Star | 11/05/08
I HAVE often railed at the fact that music has become more about the visuals than the song itself. Yet, in hypocritical fashion, I'm going to tell you ... More
Cops on song, criminals face the music
Times of India | 11/05/08
Tirhut range DIG Arvind Pandey does not find fighting crime and music contradictory. "A recent report in America suggests that music makes police officers ... More
When DRM detonates your music collection
Timesonline | 11/05/08
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
How much should music cost?
Los Angeles Times | 06/05/08
hree interesting developments today on the issue of music pricing and price elasticity, a subject close to my heart. While one label starts flirting with ... More
Dolly Parton and Lessons on Bad Branding
Wall Street Journal | 04/05/08
There is nothing wrong with the product. But boy, the branding bites.
That's what I thought last night at Radio City Music Hall as I watched one of ... 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
The music biz's digital flops - a short history
The Register | 26/05/08
Since the record industry first noticed that some of the kids were using the internet in the mid-90s, it's flopped from one puddle to the next. Despite ... More
Musopen puts classical recordings, scores in public domain
Ars Technica | 22/05/08
Pre-twentieth century music all exists in the public domain, but that doesn't mean it's easy to get access either to recordings or sheet music. Want ... More
Amazon's CreateSpace Puts Out-Of-Print Music Back On The Market
InformationWeek | 06/05/08
CreateSpace, a subsidiary of Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN), on Monday expanded its print-on-demand CD publishing service in an effort to put an end to the concept ... More
Now hear this: surround sound for MP3
Greater Paramus News | 02/01/08
In the small San Diego County offices of French multimedia giant Thomson, employees crank up Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon," a recording laden ... Read
RIAA wiped off the net
The Register | 21/01/08
A lack of security controls allowed hackers to "wipe" the Recording Industry Association of America's (RIAA) website on Sunday. The existence of an ... Read
Recording industry should brace for more bad news
CNet | 17/01/08
Forget about Warner Music Group's plummeting stock price, or the shrinking retail floor space. Forget about EMI's announcement this week that it's cutting ... Read
EMI to exit IFPI
Variety | 10/01/08
In a move designed to get major music trade organizations to reorganize, EMI has made the first step to exit the British trade group IFPI. Top operating ... Read
Trent Reznor is happy to say goodbye
Sootoday.com | 09/10/07
In a short news post on the Nine Inch Nails website, Trent Reznor yesterday announced that his contract with Interscope has been fulfilled and he is now ... Read
Conspiracy Against Shareaza and Open Letter to the Recording Industry
Torrentfreak | 02/01/08
La Societe Des Producteurs De Phonogrammes En France (SPPF), which represents recording labels in France, is suing three P2P software vendors, Shareaza, ... Read
RIAA Defendant to Appeal Jury's Verdict
Wired News | 08/10/07
The woman who lost the nation's first Recording Industry Association of America music pirating trial said Monday she is appealing the $222,000 verdict ... Read
Warner Music May Fall on Report Madonna Will Leave
Bloomberg | 11/10/07
Warner Music Group Corp. may fall following a report that Madonna will leave the company and sign a recording and performance contract with Live Nation ... Read
Universal Music CEO Doug Morris Speaks, Recording Industry in Even Deeper Shit Than We Thought
New York Magazine | 27/11/07
In the December issue of Wired, Seth Mnookin sits down with Universal Music Group CEO/supervillain Doug Morris for a pretty excellent profile (which is, ... Read
Saul Williams Offers Trent Reznor Produced Album For Free
antiMUSIC | 26/10/07
The Fader Label, the recording branch of The Fader, today announced the release of the new recording by esteemed poet, artist and musician Saul Williams: ... Read
Mexican music remains dominant Latin genre in U.S.
Reuters | 23/06/08
More than any other genre in Latin music, regional Mexican has been buffeted by market conditions both broad and specific.
The genre has been affected ... More
Uni Blaze Burns Musical History
Deadline Hollywood | 02/06/08
It looks like more was damaged or destroyed in today's Universal Studios fire than anyone previously thought. I've learned that Universal Music, which ... More
The Cistercian monks being groomed for music stardom
Timesonline | 18/05/08
Within minutes of arriving at the monastery in the Vienna Forest, I see a clutch of men wearing lederhosen, while an oompah band tunes up for the May Day ... More
The Pirates Can't Be Stopped
Portfolio | 15/01/08
This teenager hacked into the outfit charged with protecting companies like Sony, Universal, and Activision from online piracy—the most daring exploit ... Read
Imeem music service doesn't quite rock
News.com | 31/10/07
Yesterday, the New York Times ran an article about Imeem, pegged to the news that this fledgling site has signed a third major label, EMI, leaving only ... 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
Universal Music CEO Doug Morris Speaks, Recording Industry in Even Deeper Shit Than We Thought
New York Magazine | 27/11/07
In the December issue of Wired, Seth Mnookin sits down with Universal Music Group CEO/supervillain Doug Morris for a pretty excellent profile (which is, ... Read
Nine Inch Nails tells fans to steal music
VNUnet | 20/09/07
The lead singer of Nine Inch Nails has urged fans of the band to steal its music as a protest against the high price charged by record companies. Trent ... Read
Nokia and Universal's Proposed Music Tax
The New York Times | 05/12/07
It's good to highlight inventions that, while flawed, show where things may be headed. One worth watching is the “Comes With Music” program just announced ... Read
Deutsche Grammophon Launches Classical Download Site
Billboard | 27/11/07
Classical music giant Deutsche Grammophon will make the bulk of its catalog available online from tomorrow when it relaunches its Website and presses the ... Read
How to thwart the RIAA
p2pnet.net | 13/09/07
Ray Beckerman has, from a standing start, become a veteran at defending RIAA victims. Now he has a thought he wants to share with all other American lawyers ... Read
Universal Music names Euro team
Variety | 04/09/07
Universal Music Publishing Group has announced its new senior executive team to lead its European operations. The company has been forced to reorganize ... Read
Sanctuary's UK music arm to close
BBC | 05/09/07
The decision was made by the firm's new owner Universal, which bought Sanctuary last month for £44.5m. The closing business is home to artists including ... Read
Imeem announces deal with Universal
CNET | 10/12/07
The music-centered social network, which focuses on ad-supported streaming music and video that its members can arrange into "playlists" on their profiles, ... Read
Universal Music Group Nixes Nine Inch Nails Remix Site
Wired News | 20/11/07
A few years ago, Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails persuaded his label, Universal Music Group, to let him post master recordings on his website for fans ... Read
The next big Ting?
Boston.com | 16/06/08
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
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
Looking to profit directly from the growing market for music downloads, Disney has launched an online store for kid-focused singles, albums and music videos. ... Read
Habbo, Music and the Record Labels
Digital Media Wire | 07/11/07
It is not just file-sharing kids and single moms that the record labels have to worry about if they continue their head-in-the-sand approach to the digital ... Read
Pop Band Fratellis Launch Memory Stick Chart Bid
Digital-Lifestyles | 20/03/07
With a keen eye for drumming up a handy bit of pre-release publicity, Scottish band The Fratellis will be releasing their new single tomorrow on a USB ... Read
'Dont download this song', now the website
Dontdownloadthissong.com | 25/08/06
"Weird Al" Yankovic is soon to release a new album titled "Straight Outta Lynwood" and the first single is titled "Don't Download This Song." In ... Read
How Shakira's 'Hips' shook the music industry
Los Angeles Times | 06/04/07
Call it the "Hips Don't Lie" effect. Last year, Epic Records held a contest offering fans a chance to help create a video for Colombian pop diva Shakira's ... Read
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
Toshiba this morning crystallized details of new, 16GB flash memory that could dramatically alter the nature of storage. A shrink to 56-nanometer lets ... Read
The Single Returns To Haunt Music Biz
Showbuzz | 11/05/07
That's the nightmare currently facing the music industry. Almost a decade after virtually eliminating 45s and cassette singles, thereby forcing fans to ... Read
Downloads Double UK Singles Sales
Billboard | 02/01/07
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 ... Read
Band Wants Paris Hilton To 'Go Away'
CMJ | 04/05/07
Citizens For A Better America, a band that was created for the sole purpose to ridicule Paris Hilton, has hit it big with their first single "Go Away ... Read
Bo Diddley dead at age 79, spokesman says
Orlando Sentinel | 02/06/08
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
No offense to Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper or Don McLean, but I think we may be witnessing the actual day the music died and this time I can even name the ... More
New MP3 Revolutionizes Way You Listen to Music
The Korea Times | 23/05/08
If you are a serious guitar-master wannabe and you want to focus on the tune of Brian May's guitar and don't want to hear Freddie Mercury's voice and ... More
Music video game linked to injuries
TV5 | 18/05/08
The video game, Guitar Hero that lets anyone be a rock star, has been linked to a growing number of injuries.
Guitar Hero's been a smash hit around ... 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
Is the Internet Turning Musicians Into Buskers?
Wired News | 01/05/08
Richard Shindell, a singer-songwriter who paid his dues behind an open guitar case on the floor of Paris Metro subway stations as a street musician, has ... Read
“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
Nyet! The Madonna of Moscow says our pop stars are rubbish
The Independent | 13/01/08
With record sales of 100 million and countless awards for her music, she is probably the best-selling star never to have topped the British charts. But ... Read
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
A vodka called Hendrix Electric, which bears the image and name of late guitar legend Jimi Hendrix, has ignited a lawsuit between two members of the Hendrix ... Read
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