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Pundits have warned that the major labels should adjust to a world where they aren’t so “major,” but Universal has just announced year-to-date growth of 5 percent. Thank digital downloads and a plethora of new options for grabbing tunes.

One consumer benefit to the music industry's tribulations has been an increase in opportunities to acquire music. The industry had to loosen the reins as is looked like the horses might bolt and leave the stagecoach stranded in the ditch….

In the big, bad game of rock and roll, Stairway to Heaven? is undeniably a winner. VALUE OF “STAIRWAY” EARNINGS: $562 million
VALUE OF POTENTIAL LICENSING DEALS: $10 million and up

POTENTIAL EARNINGS Does the Verizon deal signal a change of heart? In 2002, Zeppelin licensed a hit for the first time: “Rock and Roll,” for a Cadillac campaign. If the band ­licensed “Stairway,”…

Warner Music Group has confirmed that its music is no longer available through Last.fm’s on-demand music streaming service.

I'm sure this is why Warner believes they have a trump card to renegotiate now. Smart move on their part. This isn't about Warner turning up their nose at digital music… Last's business model is changing a bit and is becoming more…

It is not yet time to stick a fork in Madonna. The grande dame of pop isn’t done just yet. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee has succeeded for so long, with more than 200 million records sold worldwide since 1982, in large measure because she’s always had a knack for identifying interesting trends and adopting them as her own.

Though lust is hardly a new addition to the "Sex" author's repertoire, the sound on "Hard Candy" represents a welcome new twist for Madonna: It's dance-pop pressed through a hip-hop filter with…

Details are beginning to emerge of a controversial plan to charge internet users an extra fee through their ISPs to freely download music on P2P networks.

Obviously, fees that are collected from businesses tend to get passed on to consumers. Thanks to Bourget, everyone who spends money at a restaurant or a store has to pay for the background music, like it or not. Most people never notice the bite….