16 May 2013
In the opening keynote of the CMU-programmed Great Escape convention this morning, the CEO of Merlin, Charles Caldas, announced the...
15 May 2013
Revenues at Universal owner Vivendi were stable in the first quarter of its current financial year, though net income slipped...
10 May 2013
The Recording Industry Association Of America has announced that it will now count on-demand streaming data in its calculations for...
7 May 2013
A song by one of the festival-goers killed in a coach crash as he returned from last September has charted,...
3 May 2013
PRS For Music yesterday revealed that the songwriting and publishing community earned nearly £10 million in 2012 from the public ...
2 May 2013
This month’s most popular articles were dominated by updates in the long running sagas of HMV and The Pirate Bay. However, m...
29 April 2013
That Emeli Sandé has only gone and broken a Beatles chart record. According to the Official Charts Company, her debut ...
Amazon saw its revenues rise 22% in the first quarter of the year, though profits fell 37% year-on-year, from $130...
25 April 2013
Hey, Record Store Day 2013 was a success. Though if you were one of the people who looked at the...
23 April 2013
Calvin Harris has broken the UK chart record for the most top ten singles released from one album. So far...
22 April 2013
Mr Len Blavatnik is the highest ranking music industry bod in the latest Sunday Times Rich List of Britain's wealthiest...
Data relating to record sales, lyrics and song keys in music by David Bowie across his career have been turned...
Ahead of Saturday's Record Store Day festivities, research firm ICM last week published a new piece of research that showed...
19 April 2013
HMV saw its share of the entertainment retail market slip just 1.5% year-on-year in the first quarter of this year,...
17 April 2013
Can Psy follow-up the success of 'Gangnam Style' with his next single? That's the question everyone's been asking. And considering...
Previously stated theories that the download era would render the album format redundant and that the streaming era would render...
16 April 2013
Combined digital and physical album sales in the UK increased slightly in the first quarter of this year, the BPI...
The UK record industry's collecting society PPL has issued its financial results for 2012, confirming that its earnings increased by...
14 April 2013
'Ding Dong! The Witch Is Dead', from the soundtrack of 1939 movie 'The Wizard Of Oz', has reached number two...
12 April 2013
The BBC has said that the Radio 1 Chart Show will not play ‘Ding Dong! The Witch is Dead’ in ful...
11 April 2013
In an industry that is still, in many ways, male dominated, it's interesting, is it not, that the 'top ten...
10 April 2013
'Ding Dong! The Witch Is Dead' by the cast of the 1939 film ‘The Wizard Of Oz’ is currently at num...
Over a billion download singles have now been sold in the UK, since the Official Charts Company started counting in...
9 April 2013
Pandora has revealed that it now has over 200 million registered users. More stats and information about the milestone in...
The Official Charts Company has announced that one billion download singles have now been sold in the UK since it...
The International Federation Of The Phonographic Industry yesterday published its Recording Industry In Numbers report for 2013, which mainly confirms...
A new report from secondary ticketing website Viagogo, with the only slightly emotive title Scam Nation 2013, reckons that up...
8 April 2013
The Official Charts Company last week confirmed it had signed a new four year deal with the BBC which will...
5 April 2013
Collecting society PRS For Music collected a record £641.8m for the UK music publishing sector last year, an increase of ...
3 April 2013
The Official Charts Company has altered its rules regarding so called 'instant gratification tracks', according to Music Week. This relates to...
2 April 2013
So, top of the charts on theCMUwebsite.com for March was our round up of Justin Bieber’s slightly chaotic trip to L...
31 March 2013
Anthony McPartlin and Declan Donnelly have won the all-important race to the Easter Number One spot with their nineteen year...
28 March 2013
In 2011 Germany was one of the few markets that bucked the trend of decline in the global record industry...
So, Anthony McPartlin and Declan Donnelly are currently on course to have the coveted Easter number one single this weekend,...
26 March 2013
4Music will again consider who are the most powerful on-stage players in pop this weekend with 'The Pop Powerlist', a...
25 March 2013
Ant & Dec's 'Let's Get Ready To Rhumble' is at number two in the iTunes chart as we speak after...
21 March 2013
YouTube now has a billion viewers a month, says the Google-owned video platform, up from 800 million monthly uniques in...
20 March 2013
The rules of Buddhism dictate that for every bit of research saying that piracy platforms have hindered the legitimate content...
13 March 2013
Online entertainment services of all kinds continued to boom in 2012, according to stats aggregated by the Entertainment Retailers Association,...
6 March 2013
The Official Charts Company will next week launch the first ever UK Christian & Gospel Albums Chart, so that's a...
4 March 2013
February’s most-read news story actually dates back to December, when Peter Hook spoke to Xfm about him and Joy Division d...
27 February 2013
So good news, people. Revenues generated by the global record industry were 0.3% higher in 2012 than they were in...
The Official Charts Company will not be following Billboard's lead in the US and adding YouTube streaming data to the...
26 February 2013
Want to know what music firms US business magazine Fast Company reckons are the "most innovative" as of now? Digital...
25 February 2013
While digital revenues, whether download or stream-based, are booming, and a solid online base is ever more important for artists,...
22 February 2013
Winners and performers from Wednesday night's BRIT Awards have seen "massive sales uplifts" according to the Official Charts Company, with...
21 February 2013
Producer Baauer has jumped to the top of the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart in the US thanks to the...
15 February 2013
Music Week has selected 30 people working in the music industry who are aged under 30 and look set to...
If you work in the traditional music media, it's probably worth remembering that favourite mantra of the marketing profession -...
11 February 2013
Last November, the Official Charts Company revealed the 123 tracks that had sold over a million copies in the singles...
