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After rumors emerged last month, Universal Music Group and Google subsidiary YouTube have made it official: the two companies are working together to launch a new premium music video Web site dubbed Vevo. Vevo will be a wholly owned subsidiary of Universal, and will be supported through advertising revenue that will be split between the two companies. The hope is that by building a premium site, top music and entertainment brands will be… Read More

The U.S. Department of Justice has reportedly launched a preliminary investigation into “Total Music,” an idea originally floated in October of last year by Universal Music president Doug Morris. The basic idea: build the cost of subscribing to unlimited digital music for a fixed period of time into the cost of hardware players. Under Total Music, hardware makers would essentially by subsidizing the cost of subscribing to the… Read More

“DualDisc is a two-sided disc made up of a CD on one side and a DVD on the other. In addition to a full album on the CD side, the DVD side provides the full album in enhanced sound (such as Surround Sound and/or DVD-Audio or LPCM stereo), and also includes a wide range of special features, such as music videos, interviews, photo galleries, web links, concert footage and lyrics. Industry bigwigs like Edgar Bronfman Jr. (WEA), Andrew… Read More

Premium members have downloaded or streamed over 2 million tracks during the first week of the new service, and the Company estimates that it will have in excess of 80,000 Premium subscribers by theend of the year. Demonstrating the broad appeal of the “all access” nature of its Premium service, Napster and Penn State University today announced that Penn State will purchase access to Napster's Premium service for its… Read More

 In addition, over 46 percent of the songs have been purchased as albums, and over 80 percent of the over 200,000 songs available on the online store have been purchased at least once. Applealso announced that it will ship its one millionth iPodâ„¢ this week. Apple introduced the third generation of its ultra-portable digital music player in April, and it has become a huge hit with musiclovers worldwide. "The iTunes Music Store is… Read More

Over half of the songs were purchased as albums, dispelling concerns that selling music on a per-track basis will destroy album sales. In addition, over half of the 200,000 songs offered on theiTunes Music Store were purchased at least once, demonstrating the breadth of musical tastes served by Apple's groundbreaking online store. Apple also reported that over one million copies of iTunes4 have been downloaded, and that it has received… Read More