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.
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.
