Here's a digital milestone of sorts: artists can now earn Gold and Platinum awards in the US based on on-demand streams and video views of their songs, as well as sales.
May 10th, 2013 by Music Ally
March 27th, 2013 by Stuart Dredge
US music industry body the RIAA has published some data on recorded music revenues in 2012, with the headline figure being a 0.9% drop in sales to $7.1bn. Not the kind of decline seen over the last...
February 22nd, 2013 by Music Ally
Yesterday, US industry body the RIAA attacked Google for its 'unfulfilled' promises to downgrade piracy sites in its search rankings. Google has now responded to the criticism in a short statement
February 22nd, 2013 by Stuart Dredge
Last August, Google announced that it would start downgrading sites in its search rankings if they received lots of valid copyright removal notices. Now music industry body the RIAA says the tech giant...
February 5th, 2013 by Music Ally
Ever since Google promised to downgrade websites in its search results if they received lots of successful takedown notices, entertainment rightsholders have been peppering Google with… LOTS of takedown...
January 4th, 2013 by Stuart Dredge
Nielsen SoundScan has published US music sales figures for 2012, and as ever there is debate around what they indicate about the impact of streaming services on traditional sales. The bad news: overall...
January 2nd, 2013 by Music Ally
It's an irony we've noted before that back in 2010, opponents of the UK's Digital Economy Act criticised the lobbying power of the music industry, yet by 2012 that industry was itself criticising the lobbying...
November 20th, 2012 by Music Ally
The BPI and US body the RIAA have both significantly upped the number of takedown requests they're sending to Google: 1.6m in the last month from the RIAA, and 1.4m from the BPI according to Google's Transparency...
October 30th, 2012 by Music Ally
RapidShare has removed restrictions on download speeds for free users of its site, claiming 'there are more efficient counter measures" to deter piracy.
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