Pop group Simply Red to split up
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Simply Red are to split up in 2009, a quarter of a century after they formed, singer Mick Hucknall announces.
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A music publishing group with the rights to songs by Robbie Williams and Coldplay agreed to be taken over in a pounds 1bn deal yesterday.
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Members of the glam rock music band The Darkness announce they are to reform but without their lead singer.
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News that the Universal Music Group would no longer guarantee Apple access to its coming releases could shake up the digital music business.
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The Nationwide and Portman building societies announce they are to merge.
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A simple, "pay what you like" offering breaks all the rules and helps set the stage for the splintered future of the music biz. Bands need to treat marketing and management decisions as a valid part of the creative process. Commentary by Eliot Van Buskirk.
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Organizzazioni umanitarie contro la pop star Usa
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A British band has funded its first  album entirely via a new Web site which allows up-and-coming  acts to bypass record labels and gives fans the chance to buy  into their success.
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Chart-topping trio Busted announce their split following Charlie Simpson's decision to leave the band.
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The decision will at least suspend further consolidation of the global music industry even as album sales plummet.
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The news that the Dixon&#39;s group is to stop selling the venerable VCR is the end of an era. As with the launch of Dire Straits &#39;Brothers in Arms&#39; CD in the early 1980s which was seen as the tipping point between
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A group of New York musicians is planning to do what the Beatles never did -- perform the songs the Fab Four might have recorded as their final album had they stayed together just a little longer.
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Silent since 1999, U.K. rock act the  Verve is reuniting for a new album and fall live dates.
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RealNetworks Inc. is merging its RealPlayer and Music Services business units into a single group so that the teams can collaborate on developing new products and services, the company announced Thursday.
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Music sales as we know them take another step toward obsolescence.
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Rock band The White Stripes call off their UK tour, just days after they shelved a string of US dates.
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Top-selling bands The Beatles, Oasis, U2 and Westlife go head-to-head in the album charts.