Plunge in CD Sales Shakes Up Big Labels
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Music may still be a big force in pop culture, but the music businessâs own comeback attempt is falling flat.
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Album sales have continued their downward slide this year, but sales of digital tracks are up almost 50 percent over this time last year.
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LONDON (Billboard) - 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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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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The Associated Press today reported 2007's substantial decline in the music industry's album sales, illustrating how albums are no longer the vehicle of choice for music consumption.
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Sales of MP3 players are rocketing, fuelled by falling unit prices, integration of MP3 support into a wider range of devices and the creation of legal music download websites.
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Record labels are demanding such a large cut from online music sales that several of existing online music stores will eventually be forced to go under, The Independent cautions today.
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Buying music used to be simple: You coughed up $14 or so for a CD, and as long as you didn&#39;t bootleg it or charge crowds of people to listen to it, the music was yours.
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Major labels have begun demanding a cut of concert earnings or T-shirt, ring tone and merchandise revenue from new artists seeking record contracts.
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As storage gets cheaper and download speeds faster, digital music files are moving closer to CD quality.
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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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It has finally come to this: labels are simply giving their music away.
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The Thanksgiving weekend kicked off with a bang for U.S. music retailers, turned into a whimper and rebounded nicely.
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The lone holdout of the big four music labels caved to pressure from the rest of the industry and will begin to sell tracks free of the restrictive technology.
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Music sales fell faster in 2007 than 2006 due to a sharp fall in CD sales and competition from illegal file sharing.
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Though CD sales are down in the UK, a large increase in music downloads is picking up the slack.
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Shares in record company EMI plunge more than 16% as the company issues a profit warning after lower-than-expected sales.