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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]
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. Big record labels have seen their sales slide precipitously in the past few years, and have blamed the...
[March 30, 2004, 10:45]
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. The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) announced on Tuesday that global sales of...
[April 16, 2002, 16:27]
Net music sales under threat in patent case
News SightSound Technologies, a digital media company, has won an important ruling on a set of patents that could give it substantial reach over the business of selling music and video online. That means that any extra cost to downloading music as a...
[February 15, 2002, 10:56]
VeriSign Secured Seal Boosts Sales 31% for Virtual Sheet Music; EV SSL Increases Sales 13%
White Papers Sales grew briskly for downloadable sheet music supplier Virtual Sheet Music when its Web site displayed the VeriSign SecuredR Seal, but plummeted when the firm had to remove it and rely on a competitor's seal instead.
[November 11, 2008, 23:00]
Swapping doesn't hurt music sales - study
Talkback I bought around 3 CD's last year, down from about 3-4 a month, BUT I don't have any ripped music that I don't already own in some form or another. Having them ripped makes listening to a variety of music much simpler than having to dig my way...
[March 30, 2004, 12:01]
Swapping doesn't hurt music sales - study
Talkback so if you are spending it on DVD's or games etc how can you spend the same as you used to on music? also the fact you can acquire music for free off P2P systems doesnt mean you would have gone out & bought it.however i personally think it has...
[March 30, 2004, 15:42]
Swapping doesn't hurt music sales - study
Talkback To be honest I downloaded a whole load of music in the good old audiogalaxy days, when you could get what you wanted easily. I would like to salute the site for putting me in contact with alternative music I never knew the name of.
[March 30, 2004, 22:14]
Swapping doesn't hurt music sales - study
Talkback File sharing must be legalized. Xerox machines are legal, Replay TV are legal too so what's the difference?
[October 13, 2005, 8:06]
Yahoo! to offer music download sales
News EMusic will provide more than 22,000 MP3 tracks available at 99 cents per song or $8.99 (£5) per album. Liquid Audio said it would make its catalogue of more than 20,000 titles available through Yahoo as well.
[August 23, 1999, 13:31]
Swapping doesn't hurt music sales - study
Talkback music sales have slumped because CD's have been recognised as the rip-off's they are. Charging £14 for a 1970's album or £5 for a single with 6 versions of the same song is a joke, and now we don't have to fall for it.
[March 30, 2004, 13:03]
Consumers snub smaller music sites
News Online music sales are thriving but the smaller niche "dot com" stores are losing out to the Internet's major online traders, according to research published this week. A survey of 5,100 people conducted by Internet consumer research company...
[November 11, 1999, 17:07]
Billboard counts down Web music
News Billboard magazine is charting new territory this week, adding data for the first time on sales of Internet music downloads to its lists of top-selling albums. Nielsen SoundScan, which tracks retail music sales and is the source of Billboard's top...
[July 3, 2003, 10:02]
ITunes sales hit 25 million
News Apple Computer has nearly doubled sales of digital music through its iTunes music store since launching a Windows-compatible version of its iTunes software in October, the company said. Apple has been widely credited with sparking a boom in sales...
[December 16, 2003, 9:35]
Online album sales hit UK charts
News Online album sales will be included in the official UK music charts from next month in an important recognition of the impact of digital music. From 1 October, four large music sites -- BOL, Jungle, Boxman and Audiostreet -- will submit their...
[September 27, 2000, 7:12]
Barnesandnoble.com hears the music
News The service, being introduced as part of a redesigned book-selling site that also makes its debut Wednesday, will sell all types of music, including an emphasis on classical-music sales. Amazon.com jumped into online music sales one year ago and is...
[July 7, 1999, 15:33]
Amazon.co.uk refuses to join UK charts
News Online sales are soon to begin contributing to UK music charts, but Amazon.co.uk will not be participating, the company said Thursday. From 1 October, leading music sites BOL, Jungle, Boxman and Audiostreet have agreed to submit their online CD...
[September 28, 2000, 15:00]
Yahoo rethinks music downloads
News Yahoo, rethinking earlier plans, is quietly exploring ways to develop a music-download service as archrivals Microsoft and America Online place bigger bets on digital song sales. Music-store companies have conceded that margins are slim to...
[February 9, 2004, 7:50]
Jupiter research legitimises Napster et al
News In figures launched Monday to coincide with the start of the Jupiter Online Music Forum in New York, the research firm predicts that the American online music industry will be worth $5.4bn by 2005 -- that's one quarter of total US music sales.
[July 24, 2000, 14:29]
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]
