A fifth of British music label revenues now come from outside CD, DVD and digital sales, according to figures released by the BPI.
August 13th, 2012 by Music Ally
Popular UGC (user-generated content) sites such as YouTube will largely avoid the effects of Google’s new anti-piracy search rankings despite racking up a large number of copyright infringement notices,...
August 3rd, 2012 by Stuart Dredge
The BPI is trumpeting another digital milestone for the UK music industry: 100m sales of digital albums since records were first recorded in 2006. The music body notes that it took four years to reach...
July 18th, 2012 by Stuart Dredge
We don’t make a habit of liveblogging current affairs TV shows, but tonight is an exception. Newsnight is broadcasting a report by the BBC’s technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones on music...
July 5th, 2012 by Music Ally
Our lead looks at the recent research by Google and PRS for Music investigating the lucrative business models around pirate sites. While it may still fuel continued criticism of Google's search and advertising...
July 5th, 2012 by Stuart Dredge
The wagons are circling in the pro-torrenting world, after it emerged that the BPI may be training its sights on a new group of sites that it believes are thrumming with illegal activity. After Newzbin2...
July 4th, 2012 by Stuart Dredge
Yesterday’s annual general meeting of the BPI was notable for a two-pronged approach to the technology world: warmly embracing emerging startups while administering a verbal kicking to Google and...
July 3rd, 2012 by Music Ally
UK music industry body the BPI released its half-year sales figures yesterday, revealing that album unit-sales dropped 13.8% year-on-yea to 43.6m in the first half of 2012.
July 3rd, 2012 by Stuart Dredge
UK music industry body the BPI released its half-year sales figures yesterday, revealing that album unit-sales dropped 13.8% year-on-yea to 43.6m in the first half of 2012, while single sales rose 8.3%...
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