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Amazon cuts MP3 prices in attempt to close in on iTunes
Web retail giant Amazon.com has lowered its individual-song MP3 prices drastically, in an attempt to cut in on Apple iTunes’ 70 percent market share. Amazon has lowered the price on select top-selling tracks to just 69 cents. Apple charges almost twice as much for in-demand hits, which cost $1.29 each.…
Ex-Sony chief, father of the CD, dies
TOKYO (AFP) – Former Sony president Norio Ohga, who helped transform the music industry with the development of the compact disc format, has died at the age of 81, the company said. The music school graduate served as president from 1982 to 1995 and led the evolution of the electronics…
Threats against ‘Friday’ web sensation Rebecca Black probed
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Police said on Tuesday they were investigating two death threats against 13-year-old Internet sensation Rebecca Black over her low-budget music video “Friday.” The threats were made sometime in March, after “Friday” became a YouTube hit and went viral as a web phenomenon, Anaheim Policespokesman Rick Martinez said. “In essence the threats were…
Uzbek rappers to turn more humane, patriotic: official
TASHKENT — Rap music in Uzbekistan should not be called ‘evil and satanic’, part of Western culture, although rappers should include “love for the homeland” in their songs, an Uzbek official said Tuesday. A documentary entitled “Melody and Calamity” shown on state TV earlier this year “incorrectly interpreted the role…
Beatles songs sales cost music website $950,000
SAN FRANCISCO – US online music service Bluebeat will pay British recording label EMI nearly a million dollars to avoid trial in a case over rights to stream and sell versions of Beatles songs. Along with paying $950,000, Bluebeat agreed to “permanently cease and desist” from infringing on copyrighted music…
Steve Jobs to be deposed in iTunes antitrust suit
SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) – A federal judge has cleared the way for Apple’s ailing leader Steve Jobs to be deposed in a class-action lawsuit charging the iPod maker turned iTunes into a digital music monopoly. US Magistrate Judge Howard Lloyd ruled on Monday that attorneys for the plaintiffs may question…
Ricky Martin gets top award by GLAAD
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Latin pop star Ricky Martin was honored by media group GLAAD for his work as a role model at a gala held on Saturday where he urged people to spread gay rights throughout Latin America. “I just want to be free. I can say, today I…
Uzbekistan warns over ‘evil, satanic’ rock music
TASHKENT – Uzbekistan’s state television Monday issued an unequivocal denunciation of rock and rap as a Western liberal excess, saying the music is epitomised by sadism, drug addiction and immorality. In a TV documentary called “Melody and Calamity” Uzbekistan’s second main channel Youht TV raised alarm over “pernicious influence of…
Montreal basks in Arcade Fire Grammy win
MONTREAL – Montreal music industry executives, critics and even Canada’s prime minister on Monday all sang the praises of Arcade Fire, saying its Grammy win was a coup for the city’s burgeoning music scene. The Montreal-based indie group won the best album Grammy on Sunday for their record “The Suburbs,”…
U2′s anti-apartheid song caused new stir in South Africa
JOHANNESBURG – Irish pop singer Bono caused a stir in South Africa on Sunday after expressing support for the singing of an anti-apartheid struggle song that includes the lyrics “shoot the farmer”. The song has been at the centre of a politically charged controversy in South Africa, where the firebrand…
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