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Sony has launched Music Unlimited, a subscription-based music-streaming service, but the move to leverage its music studio and numerous music-playing devices is surprisingly tardy. Trying to breaking in now could sound some sour notes.

When DailyFinance reporter Jon Berr's wife posted a brief video on YouTube of their 3-year-old son dancing to Survivor's Eye of the Tiger, she never expected to become part of the complex fight over copyright and fair use on the Internet.

'Bleeding Love' singer Leona Lewis claims she is too heartbroken to continue tour plans throughout Australia, Asia and Europe after splitting from her 10-year boyfriend Lou Al-Chamaa. According to the Sunday Mirror: "Leona's heart just wasn't in the tour towards the end of the UK leg. She was...

Susan Boyle's debut album I Dreamed A Dream is now in its sixth week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 to become 2009's No. 2 top-selling album, after Taylor Swift's Fearless. The Boyle-Swift horse race was a bittersweet victory for the music industry, which stayed in the doldrums in 2009.

Since 2005, Britain's Christmas pop charts have been dominated by the winners of Simon Cowell's talent show, "X Factor." Baby-faced singer Joe McElderry won this year, but disruptive fans are trying to interrupt the climb of his single with a campaign to promote a song from the politically charged U.S. thrash band Rage Against the Machine.

Last weekend, pop singer Chris Brown spent a lot of time re-Tweeting stories from fans who were claiming that his new album Graffiti, released on Dec. 8 by Sony (SNE) subsidiary Jive, was being held back from store shelves. Brown's domestic-violence incident last February with then-girlfriend...

A splashy music-industry event in New York City on Tuesday night began, inevitably, with a speech by Bono. American Idol runner-up Adam Lambert and pop artiste Lady GaGa closed the gala out. In between, passionate testimonials from Google (GOOG) CEO Eric Schmidt and Universal Music Group CEO Doug...

Last week, British sensation Susan Boyle set the record for the highest single-sales week of 2009. This week, Boyle continued to lure consumers where they'd resisted going all year: the music aisle. I Dreamed A Dream, Boyle's debut for Sony's (SNE) Sony Music Entertainment, sold 527,000 copies in...