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Music downloads good for CD sales - report
News Contrary to previous research, downloading digital music over the Internet actually increases the sales of CDs according to the latest survey from the Digital Media Association, says The Wall Street Journal Thursday.
[June 15, 2000, 14:33]
Is Napster taking a toll on CD sales?
News The study, commissioned by digital rights management firm Reciprocal found that sales of CDs within a five-mile radius of colleges declined 4 percent over the last two years. The study was conducted by VNU Entertainment Marketing Solutions, a...
[May 25, 2000, 15:48]
Swapping doesn't hurt music sales - study
News A study of file-sharing's effects on music sales says online music trading appears to have had little part in the recent slide in CD sales. Even in the most pessimistic version of their model, they found that it would take about 5,000 downloads to...
[March 30, 2004, 10:45]
Amazon.co.uk refuses to join UK charts
News The e-tail giant is unwilling to supply its CD sales figures to Chart Information Network (CIN) -- the company which compiles the official UK charts -- because the information is private, the company said.
[September 28, 2000, 15:00]
Piracy blamed for drop in music sales
News CD copying and song-swapping services such as Napster and Gnutella have been blamed for a significant drop in worldwide music sales. At a press conference in London, Jay Berman, chief executive of the IFPI, said that a "a massive increase" in CD...
[April 16, 2002, 16:27]
Napster blamed for plunge in singles sales
News The music industry said yesterday that Internet music-swapping site Napster is responsible for a substantial decline in sales of CD singles. Speaking to the Associated Press, Napster's chief executive Hank Barry called on the music industry to find...
[February 26, 2001, 14:33]
Online album sales hit UK charts
News From 1 October, four large music sites -- BOL, Jungle, Boxman and Audiostreet -- will submit their online CD sales figures to Chart Information Network (CIN)-- the company which compiles the official UK charts -- for auditing and inclusion in the...
[September 27, 2000, 7:12]
Amazon faces criticism following series of blunders
News The company's decision to abstain from supplying its CD sales figures to Chart Information Network for the compilation of the official UK music chart was seen as hypocritical after its recent willingness to share customer information with its US...
[October 2, 2000, 8:53]
HP quits CD-RW for DVD
News Although it is number one in sales of add-on CD-rewritable drives, Hewlett-Packard is exiting that market so it can better concentrate on the emerging, and potentially more profitable, demand for recordable DVD drives.
[October 11, 2001, 11:50]
Rupert Goodwins' diary
Blog The industry reported total income of over a billion pounds for the first time, while in the US sales of CD albums was up by around 10% -- only showing a drop of around a percent when Napster was effectively shut down.
[June 22, 2001, 17:32]
DVD burning a hot ticket for laptops
News The move comes as PC makers look to revive sluggish sales and to repeat the CD-rewritable boom that fuelled the last wave of computer upgrades. It could give a small boost to notebook sales during the holiday season.
[October 29, 2002, 8:14]
Music industry sounds off on CD burning
News CD burning contributed to a surge in music piracy across the globe in 2001, with sales of pirated discs jumping an estimated 50 percent from the previous year, according to an industry report released Tuesday.
[June 12, 2002, 12:22]
Clear pricing is the Gateway to profit
News The plan seeks to bolster Gateway's sales and at the same time "build the best PC we can at key price points," said John Lostroscio, vice president of product management at Gateway. Although that strategy boosted its unit sales on a sequential...
[March 31, 2003, 14:14]
Apple eyes CD-RW drives for Macs
News Months ago, when analysts pointed out that Apple was losing sales by not incorporating CD-RW technology, Apple partisans flooded chat rooms with angry, accusatory e-mails. Apple's repositioning on CD-RW could be an important way to reinvigorate...
[December 8, 2000, 8:50]
Recordable DVD set to boom
News In a new measure of the growing popularity of recordable DVD drives, a major optical storage manufacturer has said it expects worldwide sales of recordable DVD discs to reach at least 320 million in the next year.
[November 27, 2002, 12:45]
HP unveils first DVD+RW drive
News Two years ago, recordable/rewritable CD drives propelled PC sales. PC makers and consumer-electronics makers are hoping these types of drives will perk up holiday sales, in part, on a theory that consumers will rediscover the home movie.
[August 20, 2001, 8:50]
Andrew Graham joins UK's booming Plasmon
News Graham, a widely respected veteran of SyQuest, Iomega, Escom, Sony and Merisel, joins after Plasmon recently completed its first year as a public company on the London Stock Exchange, making a £896,000 profit on sales of £26.1 million.
[July 15, 1997, 10:51]
MP3.com shares explode
News They're going to have a big challenge to prove that we're hurting CD sales," Robertson said. Phil Leigh, an analyst at Raymond James & Associates, said regardless of the pending litigation, MP3.com's sales wouldn't be affected this year.
[March 3, 2000, 10:53]
Amazon.com implicated in CD-import row
Talkback If prices reflect sales and these prices were constant worldwide, then I am sure we would all buy our products from our home market, thus increasing sales. I buy all my CD's via CD WOW and am grateful for the savings I am able to make.
[January 15, 2004, 22:05]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog According to the NY Times, Mitch Bainwol, chief executive for the Recording Industry Association of America, believes ''CD burning is a problem that is really undermining sales,'' with 'Burned' CDs accounting for 29 percent of all recorded music...
[August 19, 2005, 18:45]
