Multilabel CD Debuts at No. 1 on U.S. Charts
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A CD featuring hits by Nelly, Keith Urban and others became the sixth in the "NOW That's What I Call Music" series of joint record-label collections to debut at No. 1 in the U.S. charts, sales trackers said on Wednesday.
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Amid debuts by several major new releases this week, Justin Timberlake held on to the top spot on the U.S. pop album charts, according to final sales data issued by Nielsen SoundScan Friday.
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Digital music, distributed online or by mobile networks, accounted for $2.9 billion in sales worldwide, up from $2.1 billion a year earlier, the industryâs international trade group said.
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A European indie music label is taking an unusual approach to the issue of CD copy protection - it is branding all its releases with a sticker proclaiming the absence of any such control measure.
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Not a bad start. That goes for  both the holiday selling season and the return to duty by a  certain recording artist.
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Rapper Ludacris scored his third No. 1 on the U.S. pop album charts
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It&#39;s going to be a long time before digital music downloads challenge CD sales, even in the online world. That&#39;s the conclusion of a report by market watcher Informa Media Group (IMG), published this week.
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Microsoft has finally launched an online music store in the US, albeit in &#39;preview&#39; form, some 16 months after the debut of iTunes.
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Online music stores broke into the mainstream in 2004, with more than 200 million tracks sold in the United States and Europe, a tenfold increase from the previous year, according to data released on Wednesday.
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Online music stores broke into the  mainstream in 2004, with more than 200 million tracks sold in  the United States and Europe, a tenfold increase from the  previous year, according to data released on Wednesday.
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Apple&#39;s iTunes Music Store is  introducing a new original programming feature designed to  promote foreign-language music in its stores around the world,  Billboard has learned.
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A company that many expected never to make it to launch has opened up offering 770,000 songs
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In yet another big week for new releases on the U.S. albums chart, the
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LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - Pop-punk band Green Day scored  its first No. 1 album on the U.S. pop charts on Wednesday with  "American Idiot," the group's fifth studio set and its first  release in four years.
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Universal has signed a handful of artists to a digital-only record label. Starting Tuesday, it will release songs through online services like iTunes.
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Pop-punk band Green Day scored its first No. 1 album on the U.S. pop charts on Wednesday with "American Idiot," the group's fifth studio set and its first release in four years.
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Faced with a protracted sales  slump, record labels are now tapping into the tween scene,  after Walt Disney Co. has become the unlikely hitmaker of the  year with chart toppers like &quot;Hannah Montana&quot; and &quot;High School  Musical.&quot;