P2P down on August, up on last year
BigChampagne figures show P2P file sharing users fell slightly from August to September 2005 but remain 43.9 per cent higher than a year earlier.…
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CEA says 70% of Americans now using portable entertainment devices
The Consumer Electronics Association reports 70 per cent of Americans carry portable entertainment devices, with 15 per cent owning MP3 players, though few use subscription services.…
IFPI figures say legitimate downloading up threefold
IFPI figures show digital music sales in the first half of 2005 tripled year on year, while CD sales fell 6.3 per cent and the overall market shrank slightly.…
Dylan sales boom after Scorsese documentary screened
Bob Dylan sales have risen sharply after the BBC screened the Scorsese documentary No Direction Home, with HMV reporting its largest catalogue increases in years.…
Online MTV VMA coverage goes into overdrive
MTV says its MTV Overdrive broadband platform received 13 million streams within a month of launch and 45 million page views the day after the VMAs.…
Queen song is world's favourite
Queen's We Are The Champions has been voted the world's favourite song in a Sony Ericsson poll of 700,000 fans across 66 countries, with Britney Spears second.…
MusicNet pass two million track mark
Digital music back-end company MusicNet says its catalogue now exceeds two million tracks, sourced from all four majors and around 25,000 independents.…
Britney is a top irritation
A poll by recruitment site retailchoice found Britney Spears is the most irritating music for shop workers, with Usher and Robbie Williams close behind and Christmas songs the worst.…
Mobile downloading worth £740 million this year
Research firm Mintel forecasts UK mobile phone users will spend £740 million on mobile downloads this year, though only 8% will go on music downloads.…
Keith Richards is top hellraiser
Keith Richards has topped a VH1 viewer poll of the ten living hellraisers, ahead of Courtney Love and Ozzy Osbourne.…
P2P usage up again
BigChampagne figures show global P2P network usage reached 9.62 million last month, up 1.3% on July and 41% on August 2004.…
Help likely to be biggest download album to date
War Child's Help: A Day In The Life album has had 90,000 track downloads and 4,000 full album downloads, with Radiohead's I Want None Of It topping its track popularity.…