News tagged with digital music sales

Is new Warner Music buyer a sucker or savant?

(AP) -- Billionaire Len Blavatnik is spending $1.3 billion to buy Warner Music Group Corp. a decade into a steep decline in CD sales for the music industry.

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Recording companies eager for Google to launch music service

Google Inc., which is developing a digital music service, is winning over record companies that are hoping the technology company can loosen Apple Inc.'s grip on the digital music market.

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created Sep 03, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Warner Music CEO looks 'beyond iTunes' amid losses

(AP) -- Digital download sales growth slowed further for Warner Music Group Corp. in its fiscal third quarter, prompting CEO Edgar Bronfman Jr. to say Thursday that the company was looking "beyond the iTunes model" to return ...

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Digital music sales 'to nearly equal CDs next year'

Compact discs accounted for 65 percent of US music sales in the first half of 2009 but digital downloads are expected to nearly equal CD sales by the end of next year, market research firm NPD Group said Tuesday.

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created Aug 18, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0