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Warner Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment will join Universal Music Group in a copyright infringement lawsuit against music streaming service Grooveshark, reports The New York Times. Information about the music companies' plans come from four anonymous sources who were briefed on the matter. Grooveshark's was initially sued by Universal after a person claiming to be a Grooveshark employee posted a comment on Digital Music… Read More

Details on RIM's BlackBerry music app leaked out today from CrackBerry. According to their report, the music service is priced at $5 a month. However, BlackBerry owners will be able to activate a free trial of the application after downloading the BlackBerry music app. After activation, the user can download up to 50 songs at a time onto the phone. While the amount is extremely minuscule compared to Spotify's offline caching of up… Read More

If you're a fan of free online streaming music services like Last.fm or Spotify, your music selection might be getting a lot smaller. Warner Music Group, one of the big four record labels, has apparently decided that free music streaming sites aren't doing it any good, with CEO Edgar Bronfman saying yesterday that such services were “clearly no positive for the industry.” Warner Music Group has yet to make any… Read More

The head of Warner Music Group expressed hope on Tuesday that the recent “fracas” over the price of e-books would help give content creators such as his company more pricing power over device makers. CEO Edgar Bronfman Jr. made the comments as the No. 3 recording company reported a net loss for its fiscal first quarter, as a slight uptick in digital revenue failed to make up for falling CD sales. Amazon.com Inc. was pitted in a… Read More

Online music service eMusic and Warner Music Group have announced an agreement that will see eMusic start selling tracks from WMG artists. The deal is eMusic's second with a major label—it signed a distribution agreement with Sony Music last year—and will include artists from Warner labels like Atlantic and Rhino, as well as independents distributed through Warner's ADA project. “Our editors look forward to contextualizing… Read More

Online social hub MySpace is in talks to acquire struggling free music streaming site imeem, two people familiar with the matter said Tuesday. The people spoke on condition of anonymity because talks are confidential. An announcement could be weeks away, and terms are still being negotiated, but MySpace is trying to revamp itself and its MySpace Music joint venture with the major recording companies. An acquisition could bolster the unit of News… Read More

The youth-oriented mobile phone operator Helio, run by Earthlink founder Sky Dayton, has launched Helio Music, a new music download service which lets Helio users buy tunes from major labels using their mobile phones for $1.99 each. But that's not all: Helio promises its catalot and interface will put other over-the-air music download services to shame, and, soon, users will be able to buy tunes via Helio for just $.99 apiece using… Read More

PassAlong Networks(TM), a new company launching today, announced the debut of its digital music download service and sharing network, marked by the company's launch of the first digital music storeon eBay to feature music catalogs from the major labels. Simultaneously, PassAlong Networks launched its own digital music store at http://www.passalong.com/. On both sites, consumers can choose from more than 200,000 songs from major labels. By… Read More

Turning the tables on record labels, makers of the most popular Internet song-swapping network are suing entertainment companies for copyright infringement. Sharman Networks Ltd., the company behind the Kazaa file-sharing software, filed a federal lawsuit Monday accusing the entertainment companies of using unauthorized versions of its software in their efforts to root out users. Entertainment companies have offered bogus versions of… 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