01/08/2009
Parton, Smith picked for Gospel Music Hall of Fame (AP via Yahoo! News)
Dolly Parton, Michael W. Smith, Dr. Bobby Jones, the Dixie Hummingbirds and producer Lari Goss will be inducted into the Gospel Music Association Hall of Fame next month.
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01/08/2009
CES: SanDisk unveils memory card-based music player (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
SanDisk Corp unveiled a portable digital music system based on memory cards preloaded with songs, signaling a shift in its strategy to compete against the iPod.
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01/08/2009
Music & games retailer Zavvi to close 22 stores (AP via Yahoo! News)
British music and entertainment retailer Zavvi will immediately close 22 stores and cut 178 jobs, the collapsed company's administrators said Thursday.
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01/08/2009
At CES, Music Gadgets To Groove By (NPR)
Music is in the air at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Companies have developed a range of gadgets for your ears and your eyes to make listening to music and talking on the phone as easy as pushing a button.
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01/08/2009
Boxee plugs into Joost, MTV Music, Apple TV (CNET)
Media application gets plug-ins for Joost and MTV Music. In addition, its Mac and Linux alpha versions are being opened up to the public, and its Windows alpha is being expanded.
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01/09/2009
BBC music poll puts Little Boots on the path to stardom (Times Online)
There are no sure things in pop music except for the dreary inevitability that the X Factor winner will bag the Christmas No 1 slot.
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01/08/2009
Music, TV, plays and books that bring us to tears (Chicago Tribune)
Beyond 'Marley'—music, art, TV, plays and books that bring us to tears Sad sells.
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01/08/2009
Digital Music Sales Reach New High In Canada (WebProNews)
Sales of digital music in Canada increased in 2008, but were not enough to make up for the loss of physical album sales, according to Nielsen SoundScan Canada. Overall album sales declined 8.5 percent compared to 2007, which shows that the digital growth did not offset the decline in physical sales during the year. More than 40 million digital tracks were purchased in 2008 representing an ...
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01/08/2009
Will iTunes Changes Hurt Competing Music Sellers? (New York Times)
Apple’s announcement on Tuesday that it would drop anticopying measures from all of the music in its iTunes store is likely to shake up the digital music business in more ways than one.
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01/08/2009
In Music Industry Shift, iTunes Drops Copy Restrictions, Changes Prices (The Online NewsHour)
Apple has announced its plans to make music available through iTunes without copying restrictions and rolled out a new three-tiered pricing system for individual songs. A reporter discusses the implications of the changes for the music industry.
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