Online Music Stores Break Into Mainstream
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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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The U.S. music industry is becoming  more open-minded about working with online music stores from  the tiniest start-up to Amazon.com , hoping to boost  digital music sales and erode the dominance of Apple Inc's   iTunes.
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The iTunes Music Store now offers more than 1 million songs to US customers, cementing its position as the largest online music service. Apple announced the milestone Tuesday, claiming it holds over 70 percent market share for legal music downloads. iTunes features songs from the five major record labels, along with 600 independent labels, and is available in the US, UK, France and Germany.
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Blog: New entrant into the online music scene is a potential haven for indie musicians--but how will it do in an already crowded online music market?
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The music industry is using alternative routes to get new music heard, such as music blogs and 'viral marketing.'
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$160m cash purchase to propel digital music market entry
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By Kevin Maney  The online digital music business stinks.    ITunes, Rhapsody, Zune Store, Napster -- you name it. They're all failures.    The hype has people believing otherwise.
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After a disappointing start, live online music is poised for success. With new technology and Web 2.0 networks in place to fuel the boom, record labels become the last remaining sticking point between you and some rockin' web shows. Commentary by Eliot Van Buskirk.
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Microsoft, a company long known for waking up to a market after its competitors only to dominate that same market, has finally woken up to the digital music market.
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The online digital-music business became a little more crowded as Richard Branson&#39;s Virgin Group launched a music Web site in the US The Virgin Digital service sells songs for 99 cents each
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The online retail giant finally launches song downloads, injecting a dose of competition into the digital music market.
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A new online music service, Peer Impact, has signed deals with three major music labels -- Sony BMG, Universal and Warner. What sets Peer Impact apart is its use of a peer-to-peer distribution
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The drive to develop legal peer-to-peer online music services, where consumers share songs over the internet, received a boost this week when three of the four major record
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Music, that is. Thanks to the new iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store, the editors at E! Online find it all but irresistible to indulge in the guilty pleasure of impulse music buying. âAs long as youâre at a hot spot, you can click on the new Wi-Fi widget for your iPhone or iPod touch and get access to Appleâs music library at the usual 99 cents per song.â
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Ten thousand songs in your pocket. Millions of tunes on the Internet at your fingertips. And books on tape &#151; they're going down the path of vinyl records. Welcome to the new world of digital audio.
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Blog: Taking a look at a new entrant into the online music scene.
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Scads of music services are making a power play for your digital dollars. We shine a light into the murk and pick out the gems. By Mathew Honan from Wired Test.