Music Downloads
Billboard to add streaming music, digital download services to its calculation for rankings
Billboard has announced that it will begin counting plays from streaming services when calculating its namesake music rankings.
U.S. music industry sees its first decrease in digital music sales, ever
Digital track sales as well as digital album sales fell for the year 2013. Individual track sales fell 5.7 percent to 1.26 billion units, and digital album sales fell 0.1 percent to 117.6 million units.
UK retailer HMV launches music store app
UK music retailer HMV has finally begun selling digital music, just months after emerging from bankruptcy after being purchased by Hilco.
Google Music moves out of beta, adds download store
Google Music, the cloud streaming service introduced earlier this year, has moved out of beta today, adding a download catalog.
The store ......
Google Music service revealed in leaked screenshots
Spanish blog TecnoDroidVe has posted screenshots of the upcoming Google Music download service.
Currently, Google Music is a free cloud streaming ......
Apple to finally remove draconian music download limit?
According to Bloomberg, Apple may finally be on the verge of removing their one-time-only download limits.
In the iTunes Store, the TOS reads:
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Apple, digital retailers to offer improved audio quality for music downloads?
Apple, Amazon and other digital music retailers are currently in talks with the major record labels in an effort to improve the audio quality ......