Posts Tagged with ‘digital-music’

Just little more than a month ago I reported on how Apple's iTunes music service has passed up Best Buy to become the number two music retailer just under Wal-Mart.
Not surprisingly, Ars Technica has reported today that the latest NPD MusicWatch Survey for the month of January has shown Apple making a significant stride in passing Wal-Mart to now become the top music retailer in the nation.
The stats from the NPD Group show that the iTunes music [...]

Trailing behind it main rival WalMart and such online stores as Amazon, Target announced that it is finally going to offer digital music downloads. Even bargain basement retailer KMart had music downloads before Target jumped on board, though they lost their dedicated music site in their bankruptcy a few years ago.
Target's digital music rollout begins with the first album, a Sony BMG release called Live From Philadelphia by John Legend. Target has not stated whether it will offer a [...]

What would happen if one of the "big four" music companies partnered with a social network? We're about to find out. In the news this week is the new partnership between social discovery network iMeem and music company EMI .
As of this week, users of iMeem have access to the complete EMI music digital catalog. iMeem launched their own ad-supported digital content social network earlier in the year, and having the vast EMI catalog at their disposal will only help [...]

Today, BusinessWeek has reported that Universal Music Group, the largest record label in the world, is in the process of developing a digital music service that will compete with Apple's iTunes.
What seems most interesting about this news is the fact that Universal is trying to convince other major record labels to get on board. “Morris has already enlisted Sony BMG Music Entertainment as a potential partner and is talking to Warner Music Group .”
Total Music, as the service is [...]

Everyone knows that Apple has the most successful online music store, with iTunes selling more than 3 billion songs.
Recently Amazon entered the digital music market with AmazonMP3, offering only DRM-free songs at a price more affordable than the $1.29 customers pay for non-DRM tracks on iTunes.
Now, according to Nick O'Neill of AllFacebook, Facebook could be the next company to take on iTunes. While this sounds fishy, as no one has received any previous word of such news, it does seem [...]

Two stories concerning Universal Music emerged recently. One, an ongoing tale concerning the continuous threats of lawsuits level at Veoh by the media giant, which has in turn led a very peeved and exasperated Veoh to throw back a counter suit in which the video startup is seeking “a declaratory injunction to bar Universal from taking legal action” against the site. Another, making the rounds in the media just this morning, about the music group’s intention to “test the digital [...]