CD sales finished the year 2.4% above 2003, marking the first time this century that music sales have experienced a year-to-year bump. But the big story for the music industry comes from the newer ...

In 2004, the beleaguered music business is at a crossroads, the recent mega-deals in the music industry offer the possibility of near-term financial survival and the promise of fresh strategic… By ...

The revenue generated by live music events in Italy in 2004 grew by 54.1% compared to the previous year, according to new figures. By Mark Worden The revenue generated by live music events in Italy in ...

UP Andrew Lack CEO, Sony BMG Music Entertainment Age 57 When Lack took over Sony Music in 2003 he was a TV guy with no music experience, presumably picked because he’d be unsentimental about massive ...

There’s absolutely no way to compartmentalize the way we ingest music, right? So, for this — the obligatory year-end crapola — we got most of our music writers yakkin’ and jerkin’ it to whatever blew ...

While the first day of the 2004 Playboy Jazz Festival stayed generally within the galaxy of music that can be called jazz, Sunday's edition sometimes careened off the chart in the inimitable Playboy ...

What a crummy year for music in Aspen, the worst in more than a decade for sure. With the Double Diamond and the Grottos out of business, horrible weather all over Jazz Aspen Snowmass’ festivals, and ...

Can you feel nostalgic for something that never happened? If so, the recent Paramount Plus series Lolla: The Story of Lollapalooza offers up a few hauntological pangs for Lollapalooza 2004. That year ...

"Warning: the tracks on this album do not all sound the same. There are fast songs and slow ones, dark moods and dance tracks, sung in many languages, hardly any in English." And Gillett is true to ...

TWO singers from two legendary Manchester acts were picked out as the winners of ManchesterOnline's 2004 music poll by hundreds of our users - Morrissey and Mark Owen. Meanwhile, ex-Take That star ...

Close Calls, Imaginary Girls, Risqué Sonics, and Blue Scholars: Seattle's local-music winner's circle. MVPs Three Imaginary Girls are the Seattle music scene's shrewdest cheerleaders. B-b-b-but they ...