Adele's '21' is still the biggest selling album this year full story ![]()
Piracy has been blamed for the loss of revenue by the music and movie industry. While the music industry has lost plenty of revenue from physical sales, such as CD’s, it has seen an increase in digital sales. The European Commission’s Joint Research Centre's study examined the effects of online piracy and digital music sales and found that piracy does not affect digital sales.
ibtimes.com (2 months and 3 days ago)

Forgive us if we sound a little wearied by this whole thing, but once again empirical research has found that neither piracy nor legal streaming hurts digital music sales. This study is a little different - the European Commission's Institute for Prospective Technological Studies used behaviour-based data from over 16,000 European internet users to work out whether visits to...
techradar.com (2 months and 3 days ago)
Music sales are going up for the first time in 14 years and piracy is going down, largely because it is stupid-easy to hear any song you want without being a digital thief. “The music industry has adapted to the ...
wired.com (2 months and 23 days ago)
“CALL me maybe” by Carly Rae Jepsen, a Canadian vocalist, was the best-selling song last year. Is it maybe also time to call the bottom for the music industry? According to data released on February 26th by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, sales of recorded music grew in 2012 for the first time since 1999, albeit only by 0.3%, to $16.5 billion (see...
economist.com (2 months and 21 days ago)

The music industry is excited about a tiny upturn in global sales figures thanks to singers like Adele, but it's time to get real, says Neil McCormick.
telegraph.co.uk (2 months and 22 days ago)
A federal judge’s ruling could halt the resale of digital music as well as other digital good like e-books.
nytimes.com (1 month and 17 days ago)
Edgar Berger, President & CEO, International, Sony Music Entertainment, says contrary to predictions, the digital revolution has saved, not killed off, music.
palmbeachpost.com (2 months and 23 days ago)
DIGITAL sales of broadsheet newspapers The Age, Sydney Morning Herald and The Australian were up 13.4 per cent in the December quarter.
news.com.au (3 months and 4 days ago)

Edgar Berger, President & CEO, International, Sony Music Entertainment, says contrary to predictions, the digital revolution has saved, not killed off, music.
bbci.co.uk (2 months and 23 days ago)
The digital age is transforming the music industry, but an old-fashioned standby is boosting record sales: the television awards show.
wsj.com (12 hours ago)
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