Downloads now account for 15.4% of record album sales in the U.S., according to a mid-year industry report from Nielsen SoundScan. Sales of tracks delivered online were up 34.4% during...
Roughly a third of U.S. cell phone users find multimedia capabilities, including music and video, to be among the most important features of their mobile devices, according to a survey...
Social music and Internet radio service Last.fm Ltd. announced the addition of Radiohead's "In Rainbows" album to its on-demand streaming service, making it the latest of several key new releases...
Warner Music Group Corp. [WMG] became the third major label to join Nokia Oyg's [NOK] Comes With Music mobile initiative, agreeing to a partnership under which it will supply content...
RealNetworks Inc. [RNWK] has added a download store to its Rhapsody music subscription service, becoming the latest company to offer consumers DRM-free MP3 music downloads. Competitor Napster Inc. [NAPS] launched...
Songkick.com Inc. CEO Ian Hogarth isn't quite ready to confirm the size of his company's reported $1.1 million first round of funding, but he tells me that it has formally...
If the price of downloadable music is marching inexorably toward zero, SpiralFrog Inc. expects to lead the brigade. The company, which launched an ad-supported service offering free downloadable songs in...
While digital music retailer Amie Street Inc.'s unique flexible pricing model has always been appealing for consumers, shopping on the site has at times been a frustrating experience, as its...
Topspin Media Inc., the musicians' services company that former Yahoo! Music chief Ian Rogers joined in April while it was still in stealth mode, has announced itself with a lengthy...
Live Nation Inc. [LYV] chairman Michael Cohl has resigned from the company's board of directors and his post as CEO of its Live Nation Artists division following a protracted dispute...
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