Two organizations that represent the music industry may file a lawsuit against Google in order to make it harder for web users to find pirated content online. The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) and the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) have gone as far as to obtain a preliminary legal opinion on [...]
Sony has now issued a formal apology following backlash from fans of Whitney Houston who discovered that the company had raised prices on the UK iTunes Store for compilations of her work just hours after her death. Sony raised prices on Sunday for Houston’s The Ultimate Collection, an older compilation from $7.83 (US equivalent) to [...]
Soul singer Adele triumphed in her return to music’s stage on Sunday, scooping up six Grammys and winning every category in which she was nominated including album of the year for “21″ and best record with “Rolling In the Deep.” As joyous as the show was for Adele, it was equally as serious with tributes [...]
Upset Musicians will protest outside Sunday’s Grammy Awards ceremony over a decision to cut 31 ethnic and minority musical categories from the music industry’s top awards. Organizers said on Wednesday they hoped dozens of music artists and fans of Latin jazz, gospel and blues music would join in the demonstration, and attend an alternative concert. [...]
Sister Sledge has filed a lawsuit Thursday against Warner Music Group. The San Francisco complaint caught by the Hollywood Reporter accused Warner of cheating the “We Are Family” singers of revenue on iTunes, Amazon MP3, and other stores through purportedly deceptive terms. By counting a download as a one-time sale rather than a license, Warner [...]
Musician Neil Young in an interview at the D: Dive Into Media conference made the contentious claim that Apple’s late chief Steve Jobs would have been pushing hard for improved audio quality. The “Needle and the Damage Done” creator claimed that Jobs, despite creating the iPod for digital music, preferred to listen to vinyl records [...]
U2’s manager Paul McGuinness has voiced his thoughts on the arrival of ad-driven online radio services exemplified by Spotify. While McGuinness was supportive of the concept, and can see it as a viable make-up of the way that music is distributed in the future, he still has serious reservations about it. The main problem, according [...]
Swedish pop group ABBA are to release a new version of their last album, featuring a previously unreleased track for the first time since 1994, the group’s website said on Wednesday. ABBA remain one of the world’s most popular bands and their music got a new lease of life with the “Mamma Mia” stage show [...]
Digital music revenues rose eight percent in 2011 to $5.2 billion, but it was not enough to prevent another annual decline in the overall market to $16.2 billion from $16.7 billion in 2010. Figures released on Monday by record industry body the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) confirmed expectations that a downward trend [...]
Three-time Grammy winner singer , a pioneer of 1950s rhythm-and-blues and rock music known for her show-stopping hit “At Last,” died on Friday from complications of leukemia, age 73. She would have turned 74 on Wednesday. James died at a hospital in Riverside, California, east of Los Angeles, said her manager and friend of some [...]
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