Coldplay release Pretenders' 2,000 miles for Christmas!
NEW YORK (Coldplay Official Website) - Rock band Coldplay are offering their fans a chance to download a seasonal song and give money to charity this Christmas. Singer Chris Martin, who recently married actress Gwyneth Paltrow, has recorded an acoustic version of the Pretenders song 2,000 Miles. It ...
| Apple store tops 25 million mp3 songs!
NEW YORK (iTunes) - Apple's online music store has hit a new high, selling more than 25 million songs since its launch in April. The 25 millionth song purchased on Friday was Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! by Frank Sinatra. The iTunes service offers songs for 99 cents (60 pence) each, which ...
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Internet users downloads 'singles' and kills the albums category
LONDON, UK (NPD Group) - Internet music users are more likely to download singles than full albums, research has suggested. NPD Group tracked useage by both legitimate online music retail stores like iTunes and file-sharing services. The results suggested that consumers downloading from the web took ...
| Mycokemusic.com: Coke moves into online music!
LONDON, UK (Coca Cola announcement) - Just a week after it signed a controversial sponsorship deal involving Top of the Pops, Coca-Cola is muscling in on record retailers by launching its own music download service in the UK! The drinks giant will offer music fans the chance to download everything from ...
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iTunes hacked?
NEW YORK (Windows files & news Website) - All Microsoft people are having a smiling face last days! The execs at Apple must be loooking over their shoulders these days as it appears nothing is 100% safe (and not only the Windows O/S). A 19-year-old Norwegian hacker John Lech Johansen has discovered ...
| The biggest global charity event on the net ever!
LONDON, UK (Radio 1/46664 websites) - Nelson Mandela's Aids Day Concert is to be webcast globally live and free on Saturday, in what will be the world's biggest charity event on the net. The concert kicks off the 46664 campaign to raise HIV/Aids awareness through music. Each song performed by stars ...
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A broadband jukebox launched with over 2 million tracks
NEW YORK (Inspired Broadcast Networks press release) - Inspired Broadcast Networks, the digital division of leisure giant, Leisure Link, and Entertainment UK, the Europe's largest music distributor are out to change the jukebox's market decline. Together they have built a jukebox that can instantly ...
| Microsoft music store to open next year
NEW YORK (TechNews online journal) - Microsoft's timing may be good. Music companies finally seem to have realized the potential of the online music market. At the same time, lawsuits are having a chilling effect on free download use, sending more users to paid Microsoft Corp. plans to offer music downloading ...
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Apple says iTunes store sold five times more songs than Napster
LOS ANGELES (Apple press release) - According to Apple Computer, its iTunes online music store sold five times more songs than rival Napster's service in its first week of operation. iTunes fans purchased and downloaded 1.5 million songs from its iTunes Music Store during the same period that Napster ...
| US downloads beat CD sales
NEW YORK (Technology Forum) - Music fans in the US are buying almost twice as many singles in digital form over the internet as they are on CDs from stores, according to a report. Some 7.7 million tracks were bought and downloaded since the end of June - compared with four million CD singles sold reported. ...
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Napster is offering single tracks for 99 cents and albums for $9.95
NEW YORK (TechNews Forums) - Napster, the pioneering song-swapping internet service, is returning to business on Wednesday after two years. A legal version of the service, renamed Napster 2.0, will become available to customers in the US who will now have to pay for downloading music. The original Napster ...
| Europeans preffers EDonkey P2P client which is overtaking KaZaA!
GENEVA, Switzerland (Sandvine website) - While FastTrack-based file sharing applications like KaZaA continue to dominate in North America, Europeans are evincing their own unique patterns and preferences, both in terms of their favorite peer-to-peer (P2P) clients and the types of content they choose ...
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Apple partners with AOL - Amazon future?
NEW YORK (Macworld Website) - "Apple is clearly the leader in online music today - but what else should we be doin?" asked Apple CEO Steve Jobs last night. "Partnership", he answered, announcing Apple's alliance with AOL in the US - under which AOL subscribers will be able to access the iTunes Music ...
| Apple to start iTunes for Windows OS this week
NEW YORK (Apple iTunes/Napster/Top40 Charts) - Apple Computer is expected to announce the launch of iTunes for Windows on Thursday. In a cryptic yet obvious invitation to the press, the Cupertino, Ca. company invited reporter to a press conference on Thursday with a classic Jobs like pronouncement, ...
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RIAA settles suits
LOS ANGELES (RIAA) - The RIAA has announced settlements with 52 of the 261 Internet users it sued this month over allegations they illegally downloaded music from their computers using popular file-sharing software like Kazaa. As previously reported, the accused included a 12 year old girl and a 71 ...
| Kazaa set lawsuit against RIAA!
LOS ANGELES (Sharman Networks newsletter) - Sharman Networks, the company behind the Kazaa file-sharing software, filed a federal lawsuit Monday, accusing the movie studios and the Recording Industry of America of using "Kazaa Lite," a replica of its software without advertising, to get onto the network. ...
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BuyMusic.com's began its legal download service
ALISO VIEJO, California (BuyMusic Press release) - BuyMusic.com, the legal music download store for PC users, today announced a major jump in traffic, which grew 30 percent from September 6 to September 13. BuyMusic.com attributes recent action taken by the Recording Industry Association of America ...
| David Draiman (Disturbed) debases RIAA lawsuits
SAN FRANCISCO (San Francisco Chronicle) - David Draiman - frontman and Disturbed lead singer - thinks that the music industry should figure out how to distribute music on the Internet, instead of suing people who download songs non-legally. Draiman told the San Francisco Chronicle, "This is not rocket ...
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Piracy lawsuits launched
NEW YORK (RIAA) - Earlier today, the Recording Industry Association of America launched its long-threatened legal assault on downloaders. The American recording industry group filed 261 federal lawsuits against individual Internet-users accused of illegal downloading and file-sharing. The RIAA says ...
| Rolling Stones put back catalogue on the internet
LONDON, UK (Media Guardian) - The Rolling Stones have agreed to make their 40-year back catalogue available legally for downloading from the internet. More than 500 tracks will be available at around 35c each on the website Listen.com, reports the Media Guardian. David Munns, chairman of EMI Music North ...
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