Article: Fed: Digital downloads to make up half music market

Article: Nielsen SoundScan To Chart Digital Downloads.(Brief Article)
The Online Reporter;  July 12, 2003 ;     231 words ...Digital downloads have apparently earned their place...Napster). SoundScan will report the digital downloads under its Non- Traditional category...sales last year. Additionally, digital downloads of recorded albums and singles...

Article: The Tables Have Turned: Rock Stars - Not Record Labels - Cashing In On Digital Revolution.
PR Newswire;  June 19, 2008 ;     700+ words ......Reports On Downloads, Digital Music And The Changing...artists are embracing the digital revolution that is sweeping...music industry, their record labels are looking at tough times...George Van Horn maintains digital downloads are still robbing the...industry evolves, it is ...

Article: Studios, record labels face heat on the Hill.(Brief Article)
Video Business;  April 9, 2001 ;     534 words ...WASHINGTON--The studios and major record labels last week came under fire on Capitol Hill from two sources...that copyright owners mean to lock up the market for digital downloads for themselves. During April 3 hearings before the Senate...

Article: Musicmaker.com Offers CD Quality Sound for Digital Downloads via Microsoft Windows Media Technologies 4.0.
PR Newswire;  August 17, 1999 ;     599 words ......Microsoft's Largest Provider of Digital Downloads NEW YORK, Aug. 17 /PRNewswire...high quality audio for digital downloads via the new Windows Media...supported by all the major record labels because it offers a proven digital rights management solution...artists for custom ...

Article: Record Labels Told To Get With The Online Program.(Brief Article)
Tape-Disc Business;  May 1, 2000 ;     381 words ...Record labels still have a lot to learn about selling music...told the assembled representatives of Nashville record labels in March. Implicit in the message was a caution...research firm Jupiter Communications, stressed that record labels have let what he referred to as unwarranted ...

Article: Sound of digital downloads
New Straits Times;  August 26, 2002 ;     347 words ......Straits Times 08-26-2002 Sound of digital downloads Byline: Lim Chong Edition: Computimes...recording industry's contention that digital downloads hurt music sales. Ian, best known...the trend. It went on to argue that digital downloads could instead help to save the music...

Article: IN BRIEF: 3 customers digital downloads.(Apple iTunes)(Brief article)
Marketing Week;  May 18, 2006 ;     35 words ...Mobile phone operator 3 customers bought more than 1 million songs and music videos last month, making it the second biggest source of digital downloads after Apple's iTunes. Copyright: Centaur Communications Ltd. and licensors

Article: Rather than deepening a slump, downloads could help the music sector's future prosperity: by 2007 digital downloads could exceed [pounds sterling]2bn. (Facts & Figures).
Marketing Week;  August 29, 2002 ;     382 words ...Contrary to protests from record labels, piracy is not responsible for...Forrester Research. It claims record labels can restore industry growth...that in the next two years, record labels will struggle to deliver on...

Article: Record labels seek chart rule change.(music industry wants digital downloads to be counted as market sales)(Brief article)
New Media Age;  June 1, 2006 ;     297 words ...The UK record industry is lobbying to have standalone digital downloads incorporated into the Official UK Singles Chart, heralding...to NMA. If the need for a physical product is scrapped, digital downloads will count towards the chart as soon as a single is put...

Article: Digital downloads play well for Warner Music; Once written off, company bounces back; deal possible.
Crain's New York Business;  May 8, 2006 ;     390 words ......for pop music in particular seemed more intent on grabbing free digital downloads--aka piracy--than paying artists and recording companies. Pirates routed now digital downloads are ringing the cash register at Warner as consumers show an...

Article: Labels cash-in on digital downloads.
Australasian Business Intelligence;  October 5, 2006 ;     190 words ......finding ways to make money despite the popularity of free digital downloads. John O'Donnell, MD of EMI Music Australia, says the industry...8 per cent. There was a 395 per cent jump in sales via digital downloads from mobile telephones and web sites during the period...

Article: Amplified Inks Deal with E-music.gr to Provide Digital Downloads to Greece-based Music Portal.
PR Newswire;  November 21, 2000 ;     411 words ......from our catalogue of high quality digital downloads. Costas Tsingas, CEO, of E-music...company capable of providing us with digital downloads accessible at our music portal. We...provides fulfillment of CDs, DVDs, Digital Downloads and Custom CDs to most of the Internet...

Article: Liquid Audio Launches New Digital Downloads from Universal Music Group.
PR Newswire;  November 20, 2002 ;     700+ words ......available to consumers in the U.S. as digital downloads for the first time. Beginning today...growing number of major and independent record labels worldwide that are utilizing Liquid...tracks from 17,000 artists and 1,800 record labels. Liquid Audio distributes its digital...

Article: e-business: Sound idea: EMI goes for digital downloads.(Business)
The Birmingham Post (England);  November 19, 2002 ;     178 words ......Listen.com's Rhapsody, MusicNet, pressplay, Roxio and Streamwaves. The EMI signings will enable these distributors to sell digital downloads through the internet service providers, portals and online retailers they service, such as AOL and Yahoo!. EMI said the...