Archives for June, 2009

The ongoing drama of The Pirate Bay continues in Stockholm, Sweden. An appellate court has rejected an appeal that alleged the judge who found them ...


  Forbes has tallied the results and Madonna tops the list of top earning musicians from June 2008 to June 2009. The Material Girl has consistently ...


Michael Jackson is dead

The King of Pop was pronounced dead by doctors after arriving at UCLA Medical Center hospital in a deep coma, Los Angeles city and law ...


We have seen the live entertainment industry do a lot this year to help out those affected by hard economic times. From discounted tickets to ...


A new study by NPD Group has found that active Twitter users purchase 77 percent more digital music on average than non-users. Plus, 12 percent ...


EMI Sues Grooveshark

EMI Music is now suing Grooveshark, according to sources at both Digital Music News and Digital Media Wire today. Grooveshark is a music discovery site ...


Major labels and the RIAA received a major victory this week in one of the few remaining cases against individual file sharers. A Minnesota jury ...


Just in case you were waiting for an approval, the recently released working paper by Robert D. Austin and Lee Devin at Harvard Business School ...


First they removed all service fees for the lawn seats. Then, they dropped the charges for all tickets. Now, Live Nation has lowered the bar ...


British ISP Virgin Media announced yesterday a partnership with Universal Music Group to launch an unlimited music download service for a monthly fee. The unprecedented ...


What influences you to buy music? According to a study conducted by the Association of Independent Music Stores (AIMS), things have not changed as much ...


Major retailer Best Buy plans to reduce its music inventory by as much as 3 percent over the next year, according to one top executive ...


Just two days after the announcement of a new Miley Cyrus tour, complaints have already surfaced across the Internet and in the live entertainment industry ...


  Six months have passed, and it appears the RIAA has yet to rally support for its new anti-piracy strategy from Internet service providers. According to ...


Let’s start with the bad news. Everyone expected a drop, but no one knew radio revenue could go so low this year. With revised data ...


EMI Troubles Continue

Following Sony and WMG, EMI Music is the next major label to show major trouble this year. Private equity firm Terra Firma has handed over ...


Live Nation announced today that it is dropping service fees for more than five million lawn tickets and hundreds of concerts on Wednesday, June 3rd. ...