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Music Retail News: UMG’s New Pricing Structure Designed to Get Single CDs is Stores at $10 or Below

Share The Universal Music Group tests a new frontline pricing structure called the Velocity program which is designed to get single CDs in stores at $10 or below. Single CDs will have the suggested list prices of $10, $9, $8, $7 and $6. To compensate the lower pricing, UMG also plans to step up deluxe [...]

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23 March 2010

Marion Isobel Marion Isobel

Music Retail: Recorded Music Couldn’t Last?

Share We all know that the Music retail business is facing a big challenge because of the sagging economy and the digital media but does that mean that the record industry is bound for extinction? Here is what Brian Eno says in an interview with Paul Morley: “I think records were just a little bubble [...]

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13 March 2010

james James Hill

Spanish Indies Are Preparing to Take the Gov’t to Court on Charges of Piracy Negligence

Share Due to the “massive free downloading” over the past few years, many Spanish indie labels and distribution sectors are preparing to take the government to court on charges of negligence, and demand compensation for the damage done by piracy to the indie sector. The labels – which all belong to 46-member indie label association [...]

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4 March 2010

james James Hill