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Swedish Spotify.com is a site which allows you to stream music ad-free. It pays a small amount of royalties to the record companies, and artists are the last thing on anyone’s minds. The launch of Spotify has Australian musicians very annoyed.
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John Atterberry, a record executive who worked with Jessica Simpson and The Spice Girls, was pronounced dead on Monday after being shot by a gunman in Hollywood, CA. He was 40-years-old.
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Undeniably, Lady Gaga is talented. But each of her hits and her producer called Red One, became FAMOUS (title of a previous album) also through plagiarism controversies. Are they paying tribute to her icons or playing all of them at once?
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Universal Music Group (UMG) has announced they will be lowering the prices for physical album sales. The new suggested retail price will range from $6 to 10 and new releases will likely hover towards the higher end of that range.
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The music industry has lost one of its talented executives. New York City-based Def Jam Records says that its executive vice president Shakir Stewart, has died. The cause of death could not immediately be confirmed.
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Who said that all things are bad during a downward spiraling economy? Even though the music industry is experiencing a few bumps, people are going old-school as concerts like Bon Jovi and Tom Petty are topping the charts.
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Ever see one of those discs, stamped with “Promotional copy” or “Not for sale” on the label? They’ve been around since the vinyl days. Now Universal Music Group is throwing a tantrum about these things turning up on eBay.
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Well, well. DRM is gone, and all that posturing, blowhard stuff was pure hot air. No great surprise to music fans, but it might be the end of the irrational hype, too. Might even start a move to the 21st century in the music industry.
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Just trips off the tongue, doesn’t it, “crackdown”. You can’t be protected against online crime, pedophiles, spam, phishing, ID theft, porn, sleaze, viruses, malware, adware… but you can be protected against music.
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The Hideous Hydra of the music industry hasn’t gone all soft and cuddly, well, not yet, anyway. Warners and other music labels have now stated publicly they haven’t authorized Qtrax. Greed Inc. isn’t exactly famous for freebies.
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How scammers "phish" the music industry in order to leak tracks
The UK's lack of progress in tackling music piracy is described as "disappointing" in a report by the international recording industry.
David Cameron will meet music industry bosses today to discuss how to stop youngsters viewing suggestive videos.
Global music sales fell by 3% to $16.3bn (£10.2m) in 2011, according to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI).
Figures from the music industry indicate that earnings from Scotland's music festivals have almost trebled in the past six years.
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Universal Music Group announced they will be lowering the cost of CDs.
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