Music biz sales off for a seventh year: study
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The global recorded music market fell  for the seventh consecutive year in 2006, and the slide is  accelerating in 2007, according to figures published by a music  trade group.
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U.S. sales of digital music albums  grew by 60 percent in the first six months of 2007 but failed  to offset the rapid sales decline of compact discs, according  to data from Nielsen SoundScan.
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Online music downloading might be the new wave in the music business, but it won't crest for at least another five years, according to a new report. -washingtonpost.com
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With the genre's sales plummeting, rap and its entrepreneurial artists are looking for a turnaround strategy
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Because of the way the calendar breaks, album sales are trailing 2004 in the early weeks of the new year, but a rapper named the Game could help even the score.
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Some music companies get it, others don't.
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New music industry data show the number of U.S. albums sold last year tumbled 9.5 percent from 2006, even as the number of digital tracks sold soared by 45 percent.
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Phantom sales lost to piracy? Get over it. It's time for the music labels to pull those master recordings out of storage and make some money. Commentary by Eliot Van Buskirk.
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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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While digital music revenues will grow to be eight per cent of the total European music market by 2009, the CD will remain the bedrock of music sales, according to a new report by market analysts Jupiter Research.
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LONDON -- The compact disc has at least another five years as the most popular music format before online downloads chip away at its dominance, a new study said on Tuesday.
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CANNES, France  - Away from the headlines of job losses, grumbling artists and falling global sales, the music industry is trying new business models to boost digital sales and offset the fall in CD 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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The CD will stay the most popular music format until at least the end of the decade, according to a new survey.
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( in paragraph nine group sales in North America has been corrected to "slipped 0.5 percent to 530,630." In paragraph 10 the year has been corrected to 2009)
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Music publishers and U.S. commercial radio station owners said on Monday they had agreed to a new $1.7 billion deal to cover licensing rights for music played over radio airwaves or via radio station Web sites.
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LONDON - The compact disc has at least another five years as the most popular music format before online downloads chip away at its dominance, a new study said on Tuesday.