EMI's download music sales soar
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EMI sees download music sales rise by nearly 600% in the six months to the end of September and says they are becoming a major part of its business.
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Record companies' revenue from digital music sales rose 40 percent to $2.9 billion over the past year, but the growth is still failing to cover losses from collapse of international CD sales, the music industry's global trade body said Thursday.
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EMI Group Plc., the world&#39;s  third-largest music company, is expanding its strategy to sell  digital music without copy-protection software to more retail  sites through a deal with PassAlong Networks.
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Global music sales are showing signs of recovery for the first time in four years thanks to DVD sales.
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Shares of record company EMI Group PLC, whose artists include David Bowie and the Beatles, rose more than 6 percent Tuesday after a report that the company is in talks with private equity firms about a possible takeover.
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Shares in Britain's EMI  rose on  Thursday following a media report that it was in talks with a  number of private equity firms over potential alternatives to a  takeover approach from Warner Music .
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Sales of singles in the UK show signs of recovery as the music industry as a whole grows, figures show.
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EMI overcame an 11.4 per cent fall in sales to deliver increased profits and margins in the six months to the end of September, it announced yesterday.
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A major US music download service launches a European store selling tracks without digital restrictions.
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Meanwhile, take-over speculation mounts... EMI has signed a licensing and distribution agreement with Vidzone Digital Media to deliver the music giant's full DRM-free digital catalogue to mobiles and PCs via its cross-platform offering.â¦
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The world&#39;s third largest music label, EMI, saw its revenues from digital music increase by more than 300 per cent in the six months to 30 September, the company said today.
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Shares of EMI Group Plc, the world&#39;s third-largest record company, had their biggest jump in 1 1/2 years after the company said music sales rose in the past two months with releases
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Apple announced yesterday that over 200 million songs have been sold via the iTunes online music store. According to Eddie Cue, Appleâs VP of Applications, the amount of sales/downloads from iTunes has vastly accelerated since its launch in April 2003.
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The market for digital music on the Internet and mobile phones boomed in 2004, according to a report released Wednesday that showed the global recording industry collecting significant revenues from the segment for the first time.
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NEW YORK (Billboard) - In a bold move to pave the way for  more widespread licensing of music publishing rights, EMI Music  Publishing and Sony BMG Music Entertainment have entered an  umbrella agreement that sets working guidelines for clearing  rights to new digital music delivery opportunities on phones,  PCs, digital cable systems and emerging physical  configurations.
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NEW YORK -- Music company EMI Group PLC _ home of The Rolling Stones and Coldplay _ has been talking with online retailers about possibly selling its entire digital music catalog in MP3 format without copy protection, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday, citing numerous people familiar with the...
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