Digital music sales 'to grow 50 per cent this year'
Published: 13 October 2007
Digital music sales in the UK look set to receive a substantial kick over the next year as competitors such as Nokia up the ante in the battle against iTunes while major music companies free songs from restrictive anti-piracy software.
Madonna ditches record label to sign up with concert promoter
Published: 12 October 2007
The Eighties may be distant history, but Madonna has proved she is still a Material Girl. The singer has abandoned Warner Music, her long-time record label, in favour of a $120m (£60m) deal with Live Nation.
Radiohead album goes live on the internet
Published: 11 October 2007
What may be the most eagerly awaited 42 minutes and 29 seconds of music in recent times was made officially available over the internet yesterday.
Typical dose of sardonic alienation - and worth every penny
Published: 11 October 2007
Whether or not the walls of the music business will come crumbling down in the wake of this clarion blast at its financial foundations remains to be seen, but one requires no clairvoyance to predict that Radiohead's pay-what-you-like download album would have been perched atop the world's charts come the weekend, had it been eligible.
Winehouse wins best album prize at Q Awards
Published: 09 October 2007
Amy Winehouse can for once look forward to positive headlines today after collecting one of Britain's most prestigious music awards.
How Radiohead struck a blow for freedom (and consigned the CD to history)
Published: 07 October 2007
Major record labels 'stifling creativity' say independents
Published: 05 October 2007
Independent record labels have warned that creativity in the music industry is being stifled by increasing consolidation following the European Commission's decision to approve the 2004 merger of Sony BMG.
Charlatans to give away new album as free download
Published: 01 October 2007
Alan McGee, the musical impresario behind Oasis, has hatched an audacious plan to make new singles and albums available to download free, a move that threatens to throw the music industry into confusion.
Festival recalls links with John Lennon
Published: 29 September 2007
The Scottish Highland village of Durness – the scene of John Lennon's childhood summer holidays in the 1950s – stages a festival in his name this weekend.
West graduates with honours from the Mobo music awards
Published: 20 September 2007
The stand-off between two of America's biggest rappers came to a triumphant end for Kanye West last night as he beat his rival 50 Cent to a Mobo award for best hip-hop artist.
50 Cent loses his bet – but vows to go on anyway
Published: 15 September 2007
How much do you want to bet that when a certain rap megastar vowed recently to retire if his latest album ended up being outsold by a rival's he was really just blowing bubbles? No celebrity with millions in future earnings at stake could be so foolish. More than half a dollar says it was fakery and posturing.
The Stylophone beloved of Bowie is back on sale
Published: 15 September 2007
Is it a keyboard? Is it a circuit board? Or is it just the worst noise you've heard in your living room since the Furby? No, it's the Stylophone, the cult Seventies pocket organ, which HMV is bringing back to the delight of retro music fans – and the despair of parents.
Demand for Led Zeppelin tickets crashes websites
Published: 14 September 2007
Millions of rock fans were left on tenterhooks yesterday as a surge of interest in Led Zeppelin's one-off reunion concert crashed booking websites.
Britney panned for MTV awards performance
Published: 10 September 2007
As in most train wrecks, it was hard to focus on just one thing as the Britney Spears disaster unfolded. There was just so much that went wrong.
Glastonbury boss woos a younger crowd as middle-aged fans top the live music bill
Published: 09 September 2007
Glastonbury festival's patriarch, Michael Eavis, will turn to old and new technology for next year's event in an effort to draw in more young people.
Klaxtons sound siren for Nu-Rave with Mercury win
Published: 05 September 2007
It was a triumph for "forward-thinking music", or so proclaimed the Nu –rave band, Klaxtons, as they scooped last night's prestigious £20,000 Mercury Prize.In the finest tradition of the prize, which is now synonymous with celebrating the freshest new acts on the Indy music scene, few could have guessed it would be these rank outsiders who would be standing on the podium and whooping for joy.
The price of fame: pop stars are more likely to die young
Published: 04 September 2007
Fame may be the spur that drives young rock bands to success – but it can also be a killer when it finally arrives.
Royal Opera House 'shocked' as Terfel pulls out of Wagner
Published: 04 September 2007
It was due to be one of the highlights of London's opera season: a full staging of Wagner's four-part Ring Cycle, the first in the capital for more than a decade and featuring one of Britain's most celebrated baritones in a major role. Confirmation of the Royal Opera House's production of the complete Ring had sent a flurry of excitement around the world and, spurred on by the participation of Bryn Terfel, tickets had sold out within days. Seats for a single instalment were reportedly sold for more than £800.
Stop buying troubled Amy's records say in-laws
Published: 28 August 2007
The in-laws of troubled singer Amy Winehouse today urged fans to stop buying her records - to send a message to her and her husband that they must sort out their drug problems.
Winehouse leads white artists in line for black music awards
Published: 23 August 2007
Amy Winehouse's distinctive soul sound was hailed as representing the best of "black music" as she was nominated for four Mobo music awards yesterday.
Amy Winehouse cancels US tour
Published: 22 August 2007
Troubled singer Amy Winehouse has put her North American tour on hold, raising more concerns about her health.
Lily Allen to miss tour as US revokes her visa
Published: 18 August 2007
Lily Allen has postponed her US tour and her appearance at the MTV Video Music Awards because of an ongoing visa dispute.
Barat follows in the footsteps of Johnny Cash for prison gig
Published: 18 August 2007
"I know I had it coming
She's going to be fine, says Amy Winehouse's father
Published: 14 August 2007
The father of Amy Winehouse came to her defence yesterday after her collapse from a cocktail of drugs and reports of a heated argument between the father and daughter over her continued substance abuse.
Hip-hop showdown: Is the battle between Kanye West and 50 Cent just a publicity stunt?
Published: 14 August 2007
