Less lager, more oxygen
A review of 2008 music sponsorship notes Carling's withdrawal from live music, O2's rise to dominance, and Tuborg's growing presence at music events.…
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Tickets in demand, though often for resale
A review of 2008 ticketing covers secondary touting, TicketMaster's purchase of TicketsNow and Get Me In, and Live Nation's plans for its own ticketing agency in 2009.…
Is live still alive?
A review of 2008's live sector finds big promoters doing well while smaller festivals failed, and Glastonbury struggled to sell its final tickets.…
But what about P2P?
A review of 2008 notes that MusicTank's debates pressed for a legal peer-to-peer music service, while QTrax's announced majors deal turned out to be incomplete.…
Music for free, and now a word from our sponsor
A review of 2008's ad-funded music services covers Spotify, Last.fm, MUZU and YouTube, plus Warner Music's withdrawal of its content from YouTube over royalty rates.…
How permanent is permanent? Subscription models
A review of 2008 subscription music services describes Napster's acquisition by Best Buy and Nokia's Comes With Music, which carries DRM limits on downloaded tracks.…
The year of the MP3
A review of 2008 reports that Warner Music and SonyBMG dropped DRM, letting UK download stores sell major-label music as MP3s and ending Apple's download monopoly.…
Leona tops MTV's most played video list
MTV has published its gold and platinum video list for the first half of 2008, with Leona Lewis's Bleeding Love topping it with over 16,000 plays.…
Leona Lewis has fastest selling digital track
Leona Lewis's cover of Snow Patrol's 'Run' has become the fastest-selling digital-only track in the UK, with close to 70,000 downloads in two days.…
Some more digital growth stats
Jupiter Research predicts digital music will account for 41% of record company revenue by 2013, up from 18%, though falling CD sales will still cut overall industry revenue.…
Take That heading for number one
Take That's 'The Circus' is outselling Britney Spears' 'Circus' more than five to one in midweek figures, and Mark Owen says the band considered renaming the album.…
Axl to blame for GNR chart position
Guns N Roses' 'Chinese Democracy' debuts at No 2 behind The Killers, and The Sun reports a source blaming Axl Rose for refusing to promote the album.…