digital music

The death of Whitney Houston found nostalgic fans rushing to buy the music icon's catalog of digital works, which means a bittersweet payday for her label Sony Music. But a gaffe overseas is making Sony out to look like a greedy opportunist.

On Monday, Apple unveiled iCloud, which will allow users to store digital files on remote servers, and access them through smartphones, PCs or tablets. This should give a boost to iTunes, but that accounts for only about 2% of Apple's value. The real gain will be in how iCloud adds to the appeal of Apple's more lucrative devices.

Recorded music sales in America plunged another 7% last year as the sharp 16% drop in CD revenue more than offset gains in digital-media sales, according to new report. Overall sales fell despite the fact that illegal downloads of music have declined markedly since LimeWire was shut down.

Bowing to reality, Best Buy will slash the floor space it devotes to compact discs and DVDs this holiday season. It's a reflection of the record industry's grinding digital transformation. Meanwhile, Google is getting ready to challenge Apple, the digital music king.

The digital music world now dominated by iTunes may be in for a shakeup this fall if Google joins in with its own music service. CNET is reporting that the search engine giant could launch a music service that offers song downloads and streaming music. Google's global communications and public...

The Lala purchase and an iTunes overhaul could tighten Apple's already dominant stranglehold on the music industry's digital-downloading segment. Apple may see a fundamental shift in technology, and it's trying to get out in front.

After nine months of wrangling, Warner Music Group (WMG) has finally agreed to allow its content back on YouTube, becoming the last of the four major record companies to strike a deal with the site. The move means Google's vast video library will now feature original videos by Madonna, R.E.M. and...

Lawmakers in France, the birthplace of Rousseau and the idea of modern political liberty, have approved one of the most draconian laws ever seen in the fight against digital piracy of music, movies and software. On Tuesday, the French National Assembly approved a bill, known as HADOPI 2, which...

Compact discs are quickly becoming a thing of the past, as all the activity on iTunes has made it the second largest music retailer in the world. iTunes has passed up Best Buy in sales figures, and that's for all forms of music -- digital and CDs. iTunes sits behind only Wal-Mart in music...