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Coldplay to Give Away Live CD At Gigs

Coldplay will give a live CD away for free to fans at gigs during their coming tour of North America, underlining the dwindling financial importance for successful groups of selling physical records.
The group, who had 2008’s biggest-selling pop album with “Viva La Vida or Death And All His Friends,” kick off their summer tour on [...]

Apple’s ITunes Grows to No. 2 U.S. Music Retailer

Apple Inc’s iTunes digital media store edged out Best Buy Co and Target Corp to become the second-largest U.S. music retailer, behind Wal-Mart Stores, according to data released on Tuesday from tracking firm NPD Group. Based on 2007 sales, legal music downloads now account for 10 percent of music acquired in the United States, but [...]

Amazon Sells MP3 Downloads

Amazon.com Inc launched an early version of its highly anticipated digital music download store, which is seen as a potential rival to Apple Inc’s dominant iTunes system.

Amazon’s store, named “Amazon MP3,” allows users to buy music without copy protection technology, so that the songs can play on a variety of devices including Apple’s iPod.
Most songs [...]