CORRECTED-Digital sales shore up ailing music biz
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While sales of physical  albums plummeted during the first nine months of 2006, big  increases in the demand for digital tracks and albums have kept  the overall music business in line with last year's totals.
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There is a reason people still buy CDs  more than they do digital albums. Actually there are several,  but viruses that come along with music via peer-to-peer sites  (P2P) and a concern over digital rights management (DRM) aren't  the only culprits.
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By Jefferson Graham  LOS ANGELES -- Record labels have consistently rebuffed calls by digital music executives to sell songs online without copy-protection restrictions.
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Global music sales slipped again in 2004, but after four years of declines the record publishers will see the return of growing revenues in 2005 due to online stores and music DVDs, a survey found on Monday.
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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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Investors usually get nervous when a company relies on the sales of one product. The exception is when that product is an Apple iPod. Just as consumers can't seem to get enough of the iPod, investors are foaming over companies having anything to do with the digital music player.
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A New York Times story published yesterday cited a report from Forrester Research analyst Josh Bernoff, which inferred that since the ratio of iTunes songs sold per iPod sold has been steadily rising, a disconnect could be occurring between the two products in a changing portable media market.
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iPod? iPhone? Who cares? A survey of 3,000 British music buyers should make sobering reading for telecomms executives and label bosses this morning. It shows customers are far more savvy and discerning about the enchantments of the er, 'digital revolution' than vendors and Guardian newspaper interns might hope.â¦
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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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DENVER (Billboard) - There is a reason people still buy CDs  more than they do digital albums. Actually there are several,  but viruses that come along with music via peer-to-peer sites  (P2P) and a concern over digital rights management (DRM) aren't  the only culprits.
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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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Record labels need the digital  music market to take off. So why aren't they helping it any?
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LOS ANGELES - Record labels have consistently rebuffed calls by digital music executives to sell songs online without copy-protection restrictions. But now that the CEO of the predominant online music retailer has joined the chorus, will labels pay attention?
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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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Some music companies get it, others don't.
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A study by NYU Stern business school professor Vasant Dhar and partner Elaine Chang shows correlational evidence that blog posts increase online sales of recorded music.
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That&#39;s the number of music players that Apple Computer (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) said it sold in its most recent quarter.