Britney Spears' 'Womanizer' jumps to top of Billboard chart
Entertainment.uk.msn.com
Britney Spears' new single 'Womanizer' has jumped to the top spot of the US charts, after huge download sales of the single in its first week of release. The song scored the biggest opening week sales by a female artist since the tracking o...
Pop Explosion!
Isthmus
The music of Madison was transformed this decade in ways that mirrored broader changes in the identity of the city itself. Our media changed. Wide and thick newspapers became a relic of the past. Broadcast radio changed its business model t...
Britney Zooms to #1
Hanford Sentinel
Britney Spears took a bit of an, um, "hiatus" from the music business ... leap of "Womanizer" was spurred by first-week download sales of 286,000, the biggest opening week tally by a female artist since Nielsen SoundScan began tracking digi...
Spears shoots back to top of charts
News.com.au
... leap of Womanizer was spurred by first-week download sales of 286,000, the biggest opening week tally by a female artist since Nielsen SoundScan began tracking digital downloads ... won three awards for her 2007 song Piece of Me at the...
EMI plotting music store launch
Mac User
While digital music sales are increasing, they are yet to compensate for the continuing decline in CD sales. And as one unnamed music industry executive pointed out to the FT, services that only offer content from one record company are unl...
Elevator Pitch: Rawrip has more plans for music sales and ...
Guardian Unlimited
I also believe that the emerging markets are a fascinating new digital domain that has not yet been fully explored." rawrip ... Rawrip has more plans for music sales and recommendation This article was first published on guardian.co.uk on T...
Media All-Stars 2009
Mediaweek
In a year like the media and agency businesses have had, all-star caliber executives really come in handy. When your department’s been cut down from 15 to three, you have to be smart, patient and resourceful to generate results when others ...
Bands join Radiohead
bbc
The Travis frontman says it’s unfair how record companies get all the profits, especially when it comes to digital sales – and the body is fighting for more rights and control for the artists, over their music. Other big names who’ve signed...
Rough Times Ahead for the Electronics Industry
MSN MoneyCentral
That would be a big drop for an industry whose sales rose 3% during last year's holiday season. Almost half of all digital music players and 40% of flat-panel TVs are sold at yearend, according to the Consumer Electronics Assn.. The impact ...
"Glee" brings joy to beleaguered music industry
Reuters via Yahoo! News
Its characters may feel like a bunch of unloved high-school misfits, but the quirky musical TV comedy "Glee" is putting smiles on the faces of music industry executives searching for new revenue in an era of plunging album sales.
Retailers — gun-shy from '08 holiday sales meltdown — going lean
St. Petersburg Times
"Customers who wait for lower prices might find stores short of what they really want." Steve Knopik, chief executive, Beall's Inc.Gun-shy after last year's holiday meltdown, they trim inventories.
The Eagles Will Perform on 'The 42nd Annual CMA Awards' By PR Newswire
DVD Creation
Previously announced performers for "Country Music's Biggest Night(TM)" include co ... All prices include sales tax but exclude applicable service/handling fees. "The ... Copyright, 2008 Digital Media Online, All Rights Reserved
Music ‘piracy’: only part of the equation
p2pnet.net
p2pnet news view | P2P | Music:- “I’ve read two very interesting related articles this week,” writes Andrew Dubber (right) in Music Think Tank. The first,he says, “suggested that people who download music via peer-to-peer services spend mor...
Mobile phone sales rise in 3rd quarter: study
PhysOrg
Global sales of mobile phones reversed a slide that began late last year and turned positive in third quarter 2009, a trend expected to accelerate thanks to smartphones, a study disclosed Thursday.
SoundScan Overhauls Chart, Vinyl & Digital Sales Up
FMQB
Nielsen SoundScan has announced major changes coming to the way it tabulates the weekly album sales chart. The SoundScan/ Billboard 200 will now include catalog releases in the official chart alongside new albums.
News - Digital Media
CNET News
If nothing else, the lesson here to you--techies and digital music fans--should be that when you guys go to the barricades ... phone and Internet-enabled device, is an excellent music player. Apple appears to be on track to dominate retail ...
Playing for Change is a confederacy of optimistic buskers
Los Angeles Times
The group plays Club Nokia Friday. In this digital era of distraction and celebrity, how long could the sound of simple sidewalk music possibly echo? The answer, it turns out, is five years and counting.
Ed Hardy's expertise led Great American Country to gains
The Tennessean
Ed Hardy, president of the Great American Country TV Network, has done pretty well for himself for a longtime radio guy who jumped at the chance to run a TV operation.
