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Bach's solution enables automatic classification of music libraries and the recommendation technology guides users through music collections based on machine made annotations. 'One of the challanges of online music retailing is targetting the customer


The RIAA has called off some of its pit bulls, but don't expect a kindler gentler trade org to emerge in 2009. The Wall Street Journal has confirmed a report that first surfaced on Jon Newton's P2Pnet blog saying the trade group has given walking papers


The RIAA has called off some of its pit bulls, but don't expect a kindler gentler trade org to emerge in 2009. The Wall Street Journal has confirmed a report that first surfaced on Jon Newton's P2Pnet blog saying the trade group has given walking papers


DOES THE SINGLES SALES CHART MEAN ANYTHING? Fred... Maybe you can explain what topping the Hot Singles Sales chart really means. Does it exclude sales of downloaded singles? What does it mean in terms of actual sales numbers? Are we talking thousands,


- Country By Ken Tucker, Nashville Veteran promotion exec Carson James has joined Nashville-based indie Broken Bow Records in the newly created position of senior VP of promotions. Lee Adams, VP of promotion for Broken Bow, remains in her current


- Country By Ken Tucker, Nashville Veteran promotion exec Carson James has joined Nashville-based indie Broken Bow Records in the newly created position of senior VP of promotions. Lee Adams, VP of promotion for Broken Bow, remains in her current


Two weeks after the Recording Industry Association of America announced it had struck deals with top internet service providers to cut off unrepentant music sharers, not a single major ISP will cop to agreeing to the ambitious scheme, and one top


- By Ann Donahue and Mitchell Peters, L.A. On paper, Jay Leno's recently announced five-nights-a-week prime-time talk show looks like a brilliant new outlet for music acts-but industry sentiment is divided over how much of an opportunity it presents.


- Country By Ken Tucker, Nashville Veteran promotion exec Carson James has joined Nashville-based indie Broken Bow Records in the newly created position of senior VP of promotions. Lee Adams, VP of promotion for Broken Bow, remains in her current


Two weeks after the Recording Industry Association of America announced it had struck deals with top internet service providers to cut off unrepentant music sharers, not a single major ISP will cop to agreeing to the ambitious scheme, and one top


Sales of music albums fell in 2008 as more fans went online to buy single copies of their favorite songs. According to numbers released Wednesday by Nielsen SoundScan, which tracks U.S. sales of recorded music, sales of albums were down 14 percent while


- RB Hip-Hop By Hillary Crosley, N.Y. Warner Music Group has relinquished its exclusive distribution rights to Talib Kweli's Blacksmith Music label, however the major label still has the first right of refusal for Blacksmith acts. A Warner spokesperson


- Latin By Jackie Madrigal, R&R Hispanic radio pioneer McHenry Taylor Tichenor died Saturday (Jan. 3) of natural causes in Round Rock, Texas. He was 76. Tichenor managed the family broadcasting business, Tichenor Media System, which owned the country's


- Latin By Jackie Madrigal, R&R Hispanic radio pioneer McHenry Taylor Tichenor died Saturday (Jan. 3) of natural causes in Round Rock, Texas. He was 76. Tichenor managed the family broadcasting business, Tichenor Media System, which owned the country's


- RB Hip-Hop By Hillary Crosley, N.Y. Warner Music Group has relinquished its exclusive distribution rights to Talib Kweli's Blacksmith Music label, however the major label still has the first right of refusal for Blacksmith acts. A Warner spokesperson


With any MTV reality show, there?s bound to be a little Vaseline on the lens. 'The Hills,' for instance, exists in a world where you can live in L.A. for years without ever seeing a black person. It can get tiresome?which is why the best scene in the


1:30 PM In the second 'deflation' of a Wall Street Journal story in as many months, an RIAA spokesperson confirmed to BetaNews this morning that the termination of its use of the MediaSentry service had already happened. Among some of the more


We carry around a lot of portable electronic devices these days. From the iPod to the iPhone, the BlackBerry to the Garmin GPS personal navigation handheld, these all rely on rechargeable batteries to keep them up and running for our utility. The trouble


- RB Hip-Hop By Hillary Crosley, N.Y. Warner Music Group has relinquished its exclusive distribution rights to Talib Kweli's Blacksmith Music label, however the major label still has the first right of refusal for Blacksmith acts. A Warner spokesperson


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- RB Hip-Hop By Hillary Crosley, N.Y. Warner Music Group has relinquished its exclusive distribution rights to Talib Kweli's Blacksmith Music label, however the major label still has the first right of refusal for Blacksmith acts. A Warner spokesperson


n, Toronto The fallout from the financial turmoil surrounding Quebec distributor Fusion 3 continues, with Universal Music Canada announcing a deal to distribute SPV. SPV, which has acts such as Sepultura, Alice Cooper, Eric Burdon, Whitesnake, Motrhead,


- Touring By Jonathan Cohen, N.Y. Radiohead has drafted legendary German electronica act Kraftwerk to support its spring tour of Latin America, which begins March 15-16 in Mexico City. Kraftwerk will also play headlining shows April 25-26 in Wolfsburg,


n, Toronto The fallout from the financial turmoil surrounding Quebec distributor Fusion 3 continues, with Universal Music Canada announcing a deal to distribute SPV. SPV, which has acts such as Sepultura, Alice Cooper, Eric Burdon, Whitesnake, Motrhead,


n, Toronto The fallout from the financial turmoil surrounding Quebec distributor Fusion 3 continues, with Universal Music Canada announcing a deal to distribute SPV. SPV, which has acts such as Sepultura, Alice Cooper, Eric Burdon, Whitesnake, Motrhead,


- Touring By Jonathan Cohen, N.Y. Radiohead has drafted legendary German electronica act Kraftwerk to support its spring tour of Latin America, which begins March 15-16 in Mexico City. Kraftwerk will also play headlining shows April 25-26 in Wolfsburg,


n, Toronto The fallout from the financial turmoil surrounding Quebec distributor Fusion 3 continues, with Universal Music Canada announcing a deal to distribute SPV. SPV, which has acts such as Sepultura, Alice Cooper, Eric Burdon, Whitesnake, Motrhead,


Warner Music Group has relinquished its exclusive distribution rights to Talib Kweli's Blacksmith Music label. However, the major label still has the first right of refusal for Blacksmith acts. A Warner spokesperson says the company has the option to


In a follow up to the RIAA's plans to cease suing downloaders and switch to a tactic of pressuring ISPs for information (a tactic that ISPs are rejecting), more news regarding their future plans has been uncovered. There is a rumor floating around that


LOS ANGELES, Jan. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Universal Music Enterprises (UMe), a division of Universal Music Group, the world's leading music company, and Jake Steinfeld, the iconic entrepreneur who has been credited with creating the personal fitness training