Mike Hales

iTunes continues to grow, most recently hitting 150 million total downloads. That works out to an average of four million downloads per month, and 200 million song purchases per year. Although it took more than one year to finally surpass the 100 million mark, a snowball effect now seems to be slowly emerging. That momentum […]

MusicNet is once again providing the guts for a new digital music store, this time for an f.y.e. digital retail play. The new store, initiated by f.y.e. owner Trans World Entertainment, will attempt the thread digital aspects into the physical buying experience. At several pilot locations, consumers will be able to download tracks on kiosks […]

Among the slew of announcements by Microsoft, MSN Music is perhas the biggest one for music companies: the MSN Muisc store has been formally launched, here…it has added a bunch of new content, added music news, added audiobooks, ringtones, videos, Billboard charts etc… It has also launched music stores in Austria, the Netherlands, Spain and […]

(US) Media Centers On Parade; Content Partners Announced: PC makers, working with Microsoft, set course for consumers’ living rooms on Tuesday, launching a slew of new Media Center PCs. Dell, Gateway, Hewlett-Packard, Sony and Toshiba all introduced their latest Media Center PCs, wrapped around Microsoft’s Windows XP Media Center 2005 operating system. The latest version […]

With the Supreme Court’s rejection of its appeal, the recording industry Tuesday suffered a setback in its bid to force Internet service providers to turn over the names of possible music copyright violators. The high court rejected the appeal from the Recording Industry Association of America Inc. without comment. The decision let stand a lower […]