Music sales boosted by DVDs
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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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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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Strong sales of TVs and DVD players boost pre-Christmas sales at Dixons but the firm says it remains cautious about future trading.
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R&B star Usher leads a rise in CD sales in the US, despite the growing popularity of music downloads.
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PlayStation 3 driving demand? Blu-ray Disc is catching up with HD DVD, at least in terms of US pre-recorded media retail sales, the most recently published figures from sell-through video sales tracker Nielsen VideoScan show. In the first two weeks of January, BD media outsold HD DVD.â¦
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"Family Guy Presents  Blue Harvest," an hour-long special from the animated TV  series, topped the national DVD sales chart for the week ending  January 20, besting several new theatrical releases.
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...or not? The days of high street DVD sales are numbered, if new poll figures are to be believed.â¦
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LOS ANGELES  - Two feature-length DVDs on the Who will reach stores on November 6, one targeted at mainstream fans of the British rock veterans and the other at die-hard aficionados.
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Arts & entertainment: Group notch up the highest weekly sales for a seven-inch single for more than 20 years.
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Top-selling bands The Beatles, Oasis, U2 and Westlife go head-to-head in the album charts.
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Britain's battered music sector got some good news on Monday as second-quarter album sales grew, legal music downloads gained momentum and sales of CD singles -- a format nearly given up for dead -- bounced back.
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Business & money: Britain's music shops receive badly needed good news with industry figures showing British shoppers led the world in CD purchases in 2006.
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Recording companies looking to wring more profits out of music sales are hoping to sell retailers on a new hybrid disc. On one side is standard CD audio; on the other, the enhanced sound, video and other media capabilities of a DVD...
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Sales of the clip outnumber those of the tune or the disc, giving a new boost to the artist.
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Sales of MP3 players are rocketing, fuelled by falling unit prices, integration of MP3 support into a wider range of devices and the creation of legal music download websites.
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Consumers bought just 1,758 HD DVD players the week of January 12, down from 14,558 players the week before. In contrast, consumers bought 21,770 Blu-ray Disc machines, up from 15,257 the previous week.
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The old-school audiophile's format of choice is making a quiet comeback. Record sales are climbing as fans turn to vinyl for high-end home listening while continuing to buy MP3s for portability. Commentary by Eliot Van Buskirk.