Good news for Apple: half of all music sold in the US will be digital in 2011. Sales of digitally downloaded music will surpass physical CD sales in 2012, according to a new report by Forrester Research. Digital music sales will grow at a compound annual growth rate of 23 percent over the next five [...]

Remember Spiralfrog, the much-hyped free-music service that offers DRM-laden tracks incompatible with most people‚Äôs portable media players? Here’s our summary of Spiralfrog from when the service went live: The site lets you download tracks with Windows Media DRM. They can be used on some Windows computers and with compatible media players. Users need to register [...]

comScore today released a study of online sales of In Rainbows, the new record album from the band Radiohead. The album’s release has challenged the music industry’s traditional distribution and sales model by allowing consumers to determine the price they are willing to pay. Unfortunately for the future of musicians everywhere, nearly 2/3rds of Radioheads [...]

In the future, you won’t purchase music from iTunes and other music stores. Instead, you’ll rent it or get it as part of your mobile service, according to analysts at Pyramid Research. While music rental services have failed to make much of a dent in booming digital music market, the idea of buying music may [...]