Digital Music News, April 9, 2013 For the first time ever, early results for 2013 show that individual download sales are down in the U.S. … Read More no comments

In the U.S. Apple is talking with record labels about getting rights for a music-streaming service but the labels consider the offer too cheap. Apple… Read More no comments

The Muzak name will be retired this week as part of the reorganization by its owner, Mood Media. Mood Media, based in Concord, Ontario, has… Read More no comments

Willard Ahdritz, Founder and CEO of Kobalt Music Group (Kobalt), announced that the company has launched, Kobalt Neighbouring Rights Limited (KNRL). Kobalt believes eligible clients… Read More no comments

LyricFind is forming a partnership with Gracenote and will now power all lyric services from Gracenote’s large data base of music and video services. Gracenote… Read More no comments

Music publisher Sony/ATV to receive a 25 percent increase in royalties from the Oakland, Calif.-based Internet radio player, Pandora. The agreement may come as a… Read More no comments

30,000 copyrights from the Virgin and Famous Music U.K. publishing catalogs, that the Sony-led consortium agreed to sell in order to gain regulatory approval to… Read More no comments

Robert Fripp has quit the music industry.  The guitarist, best known for being the leader of King Crimson as well as playing with David Bowie,… Read More no comments

Sesac Inc., a performance-rights company, plans to sell $300 million of bonds linked to licensing agreements, copyrights and royalty payments for artists such as Bob… Read More no comments

The composer Norman Blagman has sued Apple, Amazon, Google and Microsoft as well as eMusic.com and Orchard Enterprises, claiming that they “accept and sell unlicensed… Read More no comments