Archive for 'Music' Category
iTunes Moves Up the Charts to Number Two
29 February 2008ITunes in 2007 was the US’ second largest seller of music - including sales of CDs and digital tracks, trailing only retail giant Wal-Mart, according to a report from the market research firm NPD Group.
BestBuy has fallen to third place.
In June 2007, iTunes passed Amazon.com to take the third place. NPD did not say whether […]
Digital Music Sales To Beat Out Physical Sales by 2012
22 February 2008Digital music sales will account for 50% of the US market in 2011 and surpass physical album sales a year later, according to Forrester Research.
Digital music will grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 23% over the next five years and reach $4.8 billion by 2012, but will not make up for continuing […]
MP3 and Wi-Fi Here to Stay
22 February 2008Most things come and go. Despite better music formats that have improved sound quality and better networks capable of perfectly delivering HD video throughout the home, it seems certain that the MP3 music format and Wi-Fi wireless networking will always be with us. There’s a lot to be said for universality. Floppy disks came and […]
Baeble Joins mywaves to Offer Mobile Music Channel
22 February 2008Baeble Music, a company delivering live music programming from independent artists, is the first music channel offering on mobile video destination mywaves. On the first weekend of its launch, mywaves’ Baeble Music channel saw over 60,000 views. Mywaves sees about five million unique visitors monthly from 175 countries and features 400,000 video channels. It is […]
Sony Expands Its PlayNow with 5M New Tracks
1 February 2008Sony Ericsson unveiled the latest musical infusion to its PlayNow, an over-the-air mobile music download service, by announcing deals with 10 major record labels totaling over five million new tracks. Sony also showed off the design of PlayNow arena and launched PlayNow Uncut – a.k.a. M-Buzz – a promotion area for unsigned and up-and-coming artists.
PlayNow […]
Amazon Takes Its MP3s To An International Stage
1 February 2008Amazon this year will begin international deployment of Amazon MP3, its DRM-free MP3 store that’s compatible with just about every device under the sun.
As it currently stands, Amazon MP3 is the only one to have DRM-free MP3s from all four major music labels, as well as over 33,000 independent labels. Amazon offers over 3.3 […]
Target Targets Online Music
1 February 2008Target has launched a new music store with the help of Sony BMG and Hip Digital Media.
Target is testing the waters offering high-quality MP3s of just on artist and just one album – John Legend’s Live from Philadelphia. The album is $10, is DRM-free and comes with no option to buy tracks individually. […]
Embarq Introduces Unlimited Music
1 February 2008Embarq, a provider of phone, Internet and satellite services to the home, has launched its first premium music product, Embarq Unlimited Music.
This service will allow Embarq’s current residential Internet customers to download and listen to over 3 million tracks via the myembarq homepage for $9.95 a month.
Users must download Embarq’s music player, which was produced […]
For All the Talk of iPods and Zunes, 2007 Was Not A Good Year For Music
1 February 2008The ratio of illegal music tracks downloaded to legal tracks sold was about 20 to 1 in 2007.
The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), a London based group that represents the major labels, said that tens of billions of illegal files were traded in 2007.
While digital music sales grew by about 40% globally in […]
Sunrise Communications Relaunches Sunrise Musicworld
1 February 2008Sunrise has relaunched its Musicworld application looking to break into the market with an integrated mobile and Internet shop allowing users to download content to both their PC and mobile device through one payment. Sunrise offers two million tracks and is looking to expand with video and ringtone components this Spring.