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eMusic reaches a new milestone, announces 4 million tracks now available

by Robert Nelson on Aug 5, 2008 at 11:48 AM

eMusic, as we have previously learned is the number two digital music provider in terms of catalog size, has once again reached another milestone. Their most recent announcement puts them at the 4 million mark, which is now made up of music from more than 40,000 record labels. Some most… Continue Reading »

Nine Inch Nails expands on Ghosts success with YouTube ‘Film Festival’

by Robert Nelson on Mar 18, 2008 at 08:19 PM

With a very web friendly release for their latest album, which in turn saw a great amount of success, Nine Inch Nails has taken the Ghosts ‘project’ one step further. In a recent post on the official NIN website, Trent Reznor first begins by thanking everyone for the albums success… Continue Reading »

Nine Inch Nails proves to be successful with Ghosts release

by Robert Nelson on Mar 13, 2008 at 09:37 PM

It seems Trent Reznor was right on with his latest album release for Ghosts I-IV. Based on “confirmed” reports the album has seen sales totaling 800,000 during the first week of its release, which in turn brought in $1.6 million. The 800,000 total included all forms of the album, including… Continue Reading »

Trent Reznor, NIN confirms BitTorrent, website uploads

by Robert Nelson on Mar 8, 2008 at 12:51 PM

In a move that is not all that surprising, especially after Trent Reznor had confirmed being an OiNK user himself, Nine Inch Nails (NIN) have confirmed the legality of uploading and are actually encouraging the sharing Ghosts I. They have in fact not only made Ghosts I available for free… Continue Reading »

Nine Inch Nails understands, release new album ‘Ghosts” in a web-friendly format

by Robert Nelson on Mar 4, 2008 at 11:38 AM

Nine Inch Nails has released their latest collection of music in a very web friendly format. Giving current fans and potential new fans a wide variety of choices to purchase the music in just about any way that you would like to get it. The new music is a 5… Continue Reading »

Amazon planning International roll-out of MP3 store in 2008

by Robert Nelson on Jan 28, 2008 at 08:28 AM

Amazon seems to be primed to give Apple some true competition, they have announced plans to roll-out their MP3 service to an international market during 2008. Amazon, who is currently the only retailer able to make the claim of offering DRM-free music from all four of the major labels and… Continue Reading »

Amazon to carry Sony’s DRM-free MP3s

by Leo Blanco on Jan 12, 2008 at 02:32 PM

With the new partnership between major music label Sony BMG and online retail giant Amazon.com, music fanatics can download the songs of Justin Timberlake, Santana, Bruce Springsteen and many other famous artists at Amazon MP3 starting next month. This is a very significant milestone because Amazon MP3 becomes the online… Continue Reading »

Sony joins the party, drops DRM

by Robert Nelson on Jan 4, 2008 at 04:24 PM

Sony has just announced they plan to start offering DRM-free music tracks. Shocking news coming from a company that has had more than a fair share of bad press when it comes to DRM, thanks to some root kit issues. Sony has become the last of the four major labels… Continue Reading »

Warner adds complete music catalog to Amazon

by Robert Nelson on Dec 28, 2007 at 08:24 AM

Warner has added their entire music collection to Amazon as DRM-free MP3’s. According to a spokesperson for Amazon and Warner Music Group this will add “hundreds of thousands of tracks” to Amazon, which now contains over 2.9 million tracks. With 3 of the 4 major labels, Amazon is looking like… Continue Reading »

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