Stores to stock 1m Band Aid CDs
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One million copies of the new Band Aid single will be sent to record shops in time for its UK release on Monday.
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SOME of the biggest names in British rock and pop are ready to perform for free to raise money for the victims of the Asian tsunami disaster, it was announced today.
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Apple&#39;S iTunes caused upset yesterday by securing the Band Aid charity single Do They Know It&#39;s Christmas for sale at 79p, instead of the Â£1.49 its rivals, from Napster to HMV, are asking customers to pay.
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Beginning today, shoppers using the iGive.com online charity mall will be able to purchase select CDs from Buy.com, pay using Google Checkout and donate 20 cents to their favorite charity, all for just one cent.
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Radioheadâs âIn Rainbows,â which was previously available for free online, is on sale in record shops on Tuesday. Will anyone buy the CD?
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TESCO will go head-to-head with Apple&#39;s iTunes as the supermarket giant launches its own music download service today. Already a top three UK music retailer from CD albums sold in its stores, Tesco is the
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The new Band Aid record has become the yearâs fastest selling single after just one day. Do They Know Itâs Christmas has sold more than the rest of the Top 30 combined.
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One of the holiday&#39;s season most well-known sounds is back, but some stores are limiting where Salvation Army volunteers can ring their bells.
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Singer Robbie Williams&#39; greatest-hits album will soon be released in UK music stores, and some phone shops, pre-loaded on a memory card.
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Rock 'n' roll fans with deep pockets can buy a Beatles guitar or a mugshot of the pop star formerly known as Cat Stevens at what Christie's said on Wednesday was its biggest auction of show business memorabilia.
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NEW YORK (Billboard) - With music specialty stores dying by the hundreds this year between the liquidation of Tower and Musicland, Nordstrom and Sears may be picking up some of the slack. Both retailers have added an entertainment cache to their stores by carrying CDs.
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The iTunes Music Store now has more than one million songs available for download in the US, the first online digital music service to offer consumers a million-song catalog. [Aug 10]
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I saw an ad in yesterday's NY Times that offered the complete New Yorker magazine archive, including all the cartoons and ads, going back to 1920-something for a bit more than the hard disk would cost. The ad was from J&R, the company that makes the product is Pexagon. $149. Sounds like there might be DRM. I asked for something like this from the music business. A hundred gigs of popular music for $500, all pre-installed on the disk without DRM.  Someone at the New Yorker had this idea too? It's a good one. Bulk content for collector types. Another source of revenue. I want to run my own personal radio station, so having every song of a certain genre or from a certain period makes the diff.
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Supermarket giant Tesco is hoping to take a slice of Apple&#39;s pie with the launch of a new music download service. The service will launch as part of Tesco.
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The Millennium Stadium is trying to stage a 'Live Aid' style concert to raise more than Â£1m for the Tsunami disaster appeal.
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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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One million copies of the new Band Aid single will be sent to record shops in time for its UK release on Monday. Robbie Williams and Dido are among the stars on a new version of charity song Do They Know It&#39;s Christmas?