Live Later doubles audience
The first live Tuesday edition of Later with Jools Holland drew 1.2 million viewers, nearly double its late Friday audience.…
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Tour sponsorship is up up up
IEG reports US tour sponsorship will reach $1.04 billion this year, with niche acts increasingly able to attract brand partnerships.…
Indian entertainment industry loses billions to piracy
A report by Ernst & Young for the US/India Business Council claims piracy costs India's entertainment industry $4 billion a year, including $325 million for music.…
Soulja Boy hot property - official
Forbes.com has named Soulja Boy the hottest music star of the moment, citing 'Crank That' topping the Billboard Hot 100 and selling 3.4 million downloads.…
eMusic say they're still the number two download store
Download firm eMusic disputes a USA Today claim that Amazon is already the second-largest US digital music store, insisting it remains second after iTunes.…
Yahoo! searchers pick Wikipedia over MySpace
A new report suggests Yahoo! users are twice as likely to click a Wikipedia biography as an official MySpace artist page when searching for an artist's name.…
Carey catches up with the King
Mariah Carey is reportedly set for her eighteenth US number one with 'Touch My Body', equalling Elvis Presley's total, and needs two more to match The Beatles.…
CD single taken out of statistician's average shopping basket
The CD single has been removed from the ONS 'typical basket' used to monitor inflation, with the CD album added in its place as people buy singles digitally.…
Glasto demand down
Glastonbury ticket registrations are down on last year, which Michael Eavis puts down to this year's headliners Kings Of Leon, The Verve and Jay-Z being less huge.…
Gloomy future for video on demand websites?
US business title Investors Business Daily predicts many video-on-demand services will struggle, while Veoh and Stage6 face lawsuits, with YouTube as the exception.…
NIN Reznor reveals Ghosts stats
Trent Reznor says the 'Ghosts I-IV' download promotion recorded almost 800,000 transactions and $1.6 million in revenue in its first week, including 2500 $300 box sets.…
Winehouse one of the decade's best sellers
Amy Winehouse's 'Black To Black' has sold 2,467,575 copies in the UK, making it one of the decade's biggest sellers, though it trails James Blunt's 'Back To Bedlam'.…