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The Top 10 Singles And Albums on ITunes June 15, 2009

iTunes‘ top 10 selling singles and albums of the week ending June 15, 2009:
Singles:
1. “I Gotta Feeling,” Black Eyed Peas
2. “Boom Boom Pow,” Black Eyed Peas
3. “Fire Burning,” Sean Kingston
4. “LoveGame,” Lady GaGa
5. “I Know You Want Me (Calle Ocho, More English Extended Mix),” Pitbull
6. “Waking Up In Vegas,” Katy Perry
7. “Knock You Down,” Keri [...]

Rapper Drake to Sue Over Unauthorized Album

Toronto rapper Drake is such a hot artist that one of his albums is selling even though he didn’t release it.
An unauthorized album, “The Girls Love Drake,” which features selections from Drake’s mixtape “So Far Gone” and other tracks, was released May 28 by a label called Canadian Money Entertainment and distributed by the Independent [...]

LIVE NATION TO SELL MAJOR LABEL MP3S ON ARTIST PAGES

Live Nation, which has been on a tear recently with major artist
signings and its own ticketing system that will soon replace a
contract with Ticketmaster, has confirmed that it will sell
unprotected MP3s from three of the four major labels. Rather than
an iTunes-style database, Live Nation’s MP3 store will route fans
to artist pages somewhat similar to the [...]

Yahoo to Open Music Site to Other Services

Yahoo Inc plans to open its online music site to feature information about songs and artists from outside services such as Apple Inc iTunes or Amazon.com, an executive said on Thursday.
“We are going to completely open up Yahoo Music in the next few weeks,” Scott Moore, the executive in charge of Yahoo’s media businesses, [...]

David Already Cooking on ITunes

At first it seemed like overkill, being able to download American Idol performances from iTunes the day after they aired.
Until we realized we could pay 99 cents and listen to David Cook’s version of “Hello” as many times as we wanted!
And thousands of people are clamoring for more, giving the newly crowned Idol winner [...]

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 [...]