Tag archive: Alicia Keys

If your day begins with a bowl of Captain Crunch and reading celebrity tweets, this is not the news you want to read. Lady Gaga, Alicia Keys, Justin Timberlake, Usher, Jennifer Hudson, Ryan Seacrest, Kim Kardashian, Elijah Wood, and other celebrities (none of our favorites) have joined Digital Life Sacrifice, a crazy new campaign that asks participants to sign off of all social media until $1 million is raised for Key's Keep a Child Alive… Read More

Plainly, some folks in the record biz think if they kiss this particular frog, it might just turn into Prince Charming. Not-yet-launched online music service SpiralFrog announced today that one of the world's largest music distributors, EMI Music Publishing, will make its music catalog available for free, legal download via SpiralFrog's forthcoming ad-supported music service. The news follows last week's announcement that… Read More

It's possible Google surprised absolutely no one: at his keynote today at the 2006 Consumer Electronics Show, Google co-founder Larry Page took the wraps off the Google Video Store, officially putting the Internet giant in the content distribution business. Expected to be available “shortly,” the Google Video Store will enable users to buy or rent video content provided by independent producers and film makers, along with… Read More

Sony BMG just can't seem to catch a break: just as the public firestorm of controversy and outrage over the XCP copy protection software (and the Windows security nightmares it engendered) begins to fade from everyday headlines, the company has to perform another mea culpa. SunComm's MediaMax? That other copy protection system Sony BMG has shipped on some of its music CDs in an effort to cut down on piracy? Yeah

From Apple's press release: "After selling over 800,000 songs during its first week, iTunes is Europe's top online music store," said Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO. "In the UK alone, iTunes sold more than 450,000 songs in the last week-16 times as many as OD2, its closest competitor." The iTunes Music Store in the UK, France and Germany offers over 700,000 songs in each country, a la carte pricing and seamless… Read More