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Sprint takes lead as 1st sponsor of file-share song
Sprint has signed on as the first company to underwrite a song to be distributed on file-sharing networks, agreeing to embed its logo on copies of tracks from Atlantic Records hip-hop artist Plies, sources told The Post. The move represents another example of the music industry's evolving view of peer-to-peer networks as a... (10/07) ReadYou may also like
Baidu partners up for music service
Variety Asia | 30/06/08 
Faced with mounting pressure from international music orgs over alleged piracy, China's top web search site Baidu has announced a partnership with three ... More
All That Jazz doing fine despite doom in music industry
Steamboat Pilot & Today | 30/06/08
For the past 10 years, music magazines have been flooded with articles about the death of the record store.
Joe Kboudi — who opened Wednesday with twice ... More
Music beneath my feet
The Financial Express | 23/06/08
Ever wondered what this underground music is, which is spreading like wildfire? Does it constitute Bollywood or is it just independent artists that we ... More
Warner Tells Kid Rock To Denounce File Sharing; He Denounces Warner Instead
Techdirt | 19/06/08
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
Music, sex and murder
Jamaica Gleaner | 16/06/08
Like businesses, countries have their competitive advantages, things for which they have a particular propensity. And what Jamaica excels at, or at least ... More
Some retailers give vinyl records a spin
GoErie.com | 16/06/08
It was a fortuitous typo for the Fred Meyer retail chain.
This spring, an employee intending to order a special CD-DVD edition of R.E.M.'s latest release ... More
'Nashville Star' lassos NBC
The Arizona Republic | 09/06/08
John Rich, half of the country music sensation Big & Rich, achieved stardom the old-fashioned way: He earned it.
The Texas native, with pal Kenny Alphin, ... More
Labels eye variable pricing for digital sales
Reuters | 07/06/08
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
A new harmony for music labels, TV
Los Angeles Times | 07/06/08
It's the sobering reality of today's music business -- a record company executive can sign a new act and then tell her, "Keep your day job."
That ... 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
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
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
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
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
IFPI Advises Kids to Use LimeWire and Kazaa
TorrentFreak | 11/05/08
The campaign's leaflet (pdf) is distributed through schools and colleges, libraries, record stores, teaching portals and websites in 21 countries. It ... More
Music execs stuck in old time rock'n'roll
The Guardian | 11/05/08
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
Collectors record Jamaica's music history
Jamaica Gleaner | 11/05/08
Some persons capture special moments on film, others in personal memories, but for some a good record can take them back into that golden moment. Record ... More
Bands are getting into bed with consumer brands
Timesonline | 04/05/08
Gabriel Hubert, horn player with Damon Albarn's favourite street-jazz collective, the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, speaks with the unashamed zeal of a convert: ... More
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
A million-dollar reason to be a rock star in China
Xinhuanet | 25/12/07
Chinese pop and rock singers, bands and composers will have a chance to compete with peers from other Asian countries for awards worth more than 1 million ... Read
I refuse to die to this music!
The Independent | 15/04/08
I was saddened to hear of the death the other day of the colourful Green Party (and former Liberal) peer Lord Beaumont of Whitley. Tim Beaumont was a tireless ... Read
Music industry reaction to Radiohead album
Timesonline | 10/10/07
The music industry woke to a potential revolution today with the first downloads of Radiohead's In Rainbows album being eagerly copied to MP3 players. ... Read
Waxman puts squeeze on LimeWire
The Hollywood Reporter | 25/07/07
The chairman of the House's investigating committee Tuesday criticized the popular peer-to-peer program LimeWire for failing to take steps to ensure that ... Read
Universal's Open MP3s Will Be Watermarked
Wired News | 12/08/07
The DRM-free songs Universal will sell as part of its recently-announced plan will contain a watermark that can be used to track the files down on peer-to-peer ... Read
Age no bar as baby boomers rock the music industry
The Guardian | 28/11/06
Rod Stewart knows about it. So does Elton John. And Barry Manilow. Tony Bennett, to his joy and surprise, is just finding out about it. And next year Earth, ... Read
Wild Predictions for a Wired 2007
Wired News | 02/01/07
Here are some predictions for 2007: Google Stock Hits $1,000 per Share Internet Traffic Doubles ... to 5,000 petabits per day by the end of 2007. And 80 ... Read
NRJ Is First P2P Live Stream Powered By The RawFlow/Tiscali Nacamar Partnership
Music Industry News Network | 27/02/07
RawFlow and Tiscali Nacamar commences their partnership by deploying Peer-To-Peer streaming technology for Energy Sachsen, enabling them to offer listeners ... Read
Make Way For The Music Detectives
CBS News | 31/10/06
A few years ago the music industry was worried about Napster and the other peer-to-peer file-sharing services that allowed people to illegally post and ... Read
Kazaa settles with music publishers
International Herald Tribune | 03/11/06
The music publishing industry has reached a tentative deal with operators of the Kazaa file-sharing network over claims of copyright infringement. Publishers ... Read
CacheLogic And BitTorrent Announce Strategic Partnership
Music Industry News Network | 15/08/06
CacheLogic, the market leader in peer-to-peer (P2P) caching solutions for Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and BitTorrent, developer of the world's leading ... Read
P2P Industry Networks For Legitimacy
Techweb | 06/10/06
Despite legal victories by record labels and trade associations, the growth of peer-to-peer networks continues unabated. BitTorrent and versions of eDonkey ... Read