According to the latest MusicWatch consumer surveys from The NPD Group, Apple is again the top music retailer in the US.
The five leading music retailers in the U.S. for the first half of 2008 (January through June, based on purchases of CDs and a-la-carte digital music downloads) are:
iTunes
Wal-Mart (Walmart, Walmart.com, Walmart Music Downloads)
Best [...]
Trent Reznor today announced another free music download, Lights In The Sky - an EP that features the work of Nine Inch Nails’ touring band:
I am proud to announce the final personnel lineup of nine inch nails for the foreseeable future. We’ve added, we’ve subtracted and we’ve wound up with unquestionably the strongest lineup I’ve EVER had. [...]
Nine Inch Nails has released a new free mp3 single, Echoplex, via the music site iLike. You can check it out below.
NIN has become the band to watch, if you’re interested in the future of music:
The group recently released Ghosts I-IV under a Creative Commons license, which means you can share it or use [...]
When we were checking out Nine Inch Nails’ site for their new release, Ghosts I-IV, we noticed that they are doing some really interesting things with podcasting, remixing and Creative Commons.
Many of their tracks are available with Remix-ready Garageband files.
Ghosts I-IV is made available with a Creative Commons license and with multi-track stems for remixing.
They’ve [...]
Nine Inch Nails is offering its latest CD, Ghosts I, as a free download from its site. The collection is a teaser to promote their Ghosts I-IV, a new collection of instrumental tracks.
The official download requires email registration at the site to get a download link. You can also download the collection officially via BitTorrent.
The [...]
Both Elisabeth (Podcasting News publisher) and I are Macheads and iPod freaks. We’re iPhone early adopters and have been advocating podcasting and new media platforms for music for years.
But, we’ve still got a vinyl music collection around, a couple of turntables and a little parallel universe of analog music that we still love.
So, country music [...]
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 years, [...]
Remember Spiralfrog, the much-hyped free-music service that offers DRM-laden tracks incompatible with most people’s 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 and visit [...]
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 fans [...]
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 soon seem [...]
