Archives for “digital music news”

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


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. ...


2009 has already been a rough year for Clear Channel Communications, and it appears that things could be getting much worse. The radio and billboard ...


Almost a month into variable pricing over at iTunes, major labels are reporting a sales drop following the shift, according to Digital Music News. Sources ...


Due to new anti-piracy laws and the recent guilty verdict for the Pirate Bay, Sweden has been under the recording industry’s microscope last few weeks. ...


PassAlong Passes On…

PassAlong Networks, a promising digital music start-up out of Nashville, announced its demise late Monday. The shutdown has already begun with the departures of several ...


On April 7th, Apple implemented its variable pricing structure into the iTunes store. Many critics predicted that Apple would increase too many songs to the ...


Spiralfrog: Rest in Peace

Like too many others in this all too common tale of these hard times, music site Spiralfrog quietly went dark this weekend. The service offered ...


Figures released today by Nielsen show that the U2’s new album “No Line on the Horizon” sold 484,000 copies in its first week in the ...


Numbers released for February show cumulative album sales are now down 11.7 percent compared to the same time in 2008, according to Nielsen Soundscan. The ...