Google Music's May 10 launch was driven in part by competition (Amazon, Apple) and indecision, including the dollar figure labels were demanding as an upfront advance.
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May 2011Still can't call it a turnaround. But music sales are indeed up in the U.S. this year, and that's because digital sales have new life again.
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Amazon Cloud Player Locks User Out Of Music Collection - The ...
May 2011The Amazon Cloud Player is a delightful new service that allows users to store music they've purchased from Amazon (or upload even more music from somewhere else) and listen to it from any Web browser or on a variety
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Apple Cloud music will be better than Google or Amazon says ...
May 2011A music insider told CNET that Apple's Cloud Music service will be better than Google's recently announced Music Beta or Amazon's Cloud Player. The source did not elaborate on the differences between the music
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Breaking: U.S Music Sales Are Up In 2011 - hypebot
May 2011Some bloggers overuse "breaking" in their headlines, but new Nielson stats that show music sales in the U.S. are up 1.6% in 2011 really is big news for the struggling recorded music industry.
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MOG Mobile Music for Android updated | Android Central
May 2011With all the new music services popping up, the fight is on to win users and in order to do so developers will need to keep their apps fresh and updated. MOG knows this and they've now made available MOG Mobile
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UK digital music sales pass the £1bn mark…and albums cost less ...
May 2011As news emerges that UK digital music sales have now passed the £1bn milestone, it also transpires that the average retail price of an album is now £7.32…a third less than a decade ago.
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Femi Kuti talks Nigerian elections, the music of his father and ...
May 2011Just a few weeks ago, Nigeria celebrated a relatively peaceful election, with incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan and his People's Democratic Party emerging victorious in a process unmarked by the violence and
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Music Builds: The CMT Disaster Relief Concert to Air TONIGHT ...
May 2011CMT and its pro-social initiative CMT One Country will air Music Builds: The CMT Disaster Relief Concert, a live, commercial-free, 90-minute concert special featuring a special call to action from President Obama
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YouTube Launches Top 100 Chart for Music
May 2011YouTube is launching a new Top 100 chart for music videos that mixes official music videos with user-uploaded and viral vids.
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