$3,250, The Number Of The (Bar) Beast

Guess somebody found out early that they might have the #3 album on the U.S. charts next week. A Norwegian newspaper called the Bergens Tidende is reporting that during their visit at the Finnegan’s Irish Pub in Bergen, Norway on Monday (August 9), Iron Maiden...

You Might Want Your MTV, But Universal Doesn’t

So even MTV.com isn’t playing music videos anymore? Well, they still are, just not music from the world’s largest label group. CNet.com is reporting that MTV’s website will no longer be streaming videos from Universal after negotiations with UMG about financial...

Universal Has Great Idea Five Years Too Late

According to an article that our friend Ed Christman at Billboard wrote recently, the Universal Music Group (which includes Interscope and Universal, among other labels) has decided to experiment with dropping the prices of the majority of their CDs to $10 or less. In...

US Music Purchases Rise In 2009

US music purchases rose 2.1% in 2009 according to Nielsen SoundScan, including the sales of digital and physical albums, singles and videos. Overall album sales were still down, however, dropping 8.5% to 490 million, though digital album sales rose again to 16.1%,...