http://www.congoo.com/feed/newschannelsfeed.aspx?chid=38&catid=21News Feed for - Music-businesshttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96324739&Channel_ID=38&Category_ID=212009-11-24T03:51:00BEIJING, Nov. 24 (Xinhuanet) -- Spotify, a Swedish streaming software company, announced that it will launch a music application for the Symbian platform of Nokia, the world's largest mobile phone maker. SINAhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96360265&Channel_ID=38&Category_ID=212009-11-24T02:11:00TORONTO, Nov. 23 /CNW/ - SOCAN (The Society of Composers Authors and Music Publishers of Canada) and the best of Canada's music industry came together tonight at Roy Thomson Hall to honour some of this BusinessWeekhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96357651&Channel_ID=38&Category_ID=212009-11-24T01:27:00BusinessWire - Financial literacy nonprofit, Operation HOPE today announced that audio book leaders Audible.com and iTunes have both released bestseller LOVE LEADERSHIP: The New Way to Lead in a Fear-Based Forbes.comhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96346220&Channel_ID=38&Category_ID=212009-11-24T01:51:00By Gail Mitchell LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - The release date for Usher's new album, recently announced as December 21, has been changed, according to a spokesperson at Jive Label Group. A new release date Reutershttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96352956&Channel_ID=38&Category_ID=212009-11-24T00:21:00Victor Keegan just can't bring himself to give the music industry credit for anything, can he ( The strange death of illegal downloading , Technology, 19 November)? He can't acknowledge that the industry Guardian.co.ukhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96270249&Channel_ID=38&Category_ID=212009-11-24T00:19:00Susan Boyle's new album I Dreamed A Dream is on target to become the fastest selling of the year. Published: 11:30PM GMT 23 Nov 2009 Susan Boyle's new album I Dreamed A Dream will probably shift up to Telegraphhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96354212&Channel_ID=38&Category_ID=212009-11-24T00:52:00Warner Music Group chairman Edgar Bronfman Jr. scored another legal victory on Monday. The New York State Court of Appeals upheld a previous court ruling dismissing a $100 million lawsuit filed against Billboardhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96355005&Channel_ID=38&Category_ID=212009-11-24T00:43:00A prominent music streaming service Spotify announced extension of its mobile reach with the release of an application that allows Symbian based mobile phones to access it. Earlier the service launched Ecommerce Journalhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96353185&Channel_ID=38&Category_ID=212009-11-24T00:24:00HMV is seeing encouraging signs from its temporary â??pop-upâ? stores, which it suggests could become a part of its future trading plans to increase musicâ??s presence on the high street. Need more? Music Weekhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96206473&Channel_ID=38&Category_ID=212009-11-24T00:44:00Lady GaGa made just $167 (100) from over 1 million plays on Spotify, it is claimed. Swedish newspaper Expressen published a report which says that the singer - real name Stefani Germanotta - has only Digital Spyhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96329170&Channel_ID=38&Category_ID=212009-11-24T03:58:00Here are a selection of box-set offerings this season: "Backtracks" AC/DC (Sony) The essence of a box set is great packaging, lots of swag and hard-to-find content. All that is here on the latest AC/DC Brandon Sunhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96245086&Channel_ID=38&Category_ID=212009-11-24T03:34:00LONDON -- ITV's 'The X Factor' series tightened its stranglehold on the U.K. sales charts, securing a double victory for creator/judge Simon Cowell's Sony Music-distributed Syco Music label. The 2007 Hollywood Reporterhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96330381&Channel_ID=38&Category_ID=212009-11-24T01:59:00Includes 20-track bonus CD, 15 free mp3s of choice & 3 month free subscription to Napster: OVER $25 VALUE FOR ONLY $7.99 NEW YORK, Nov. 23 /PRwire/ -- RED Distribution (a division of Sony Music Entertainment) Business Review Albanyhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96274681&Channel_ID=38&Category_ID=212009-11-24T01:30:0011 Millions more mobile phone users are set to tune into Spotify following the launch of a new service for Nokia products. The music streaming site has introduced a new application for the Symbian platform, Classic FMhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96305875&Channel_ID=38&Category_ID=212009-11-24T00:32:00SAN FRANCISCOYouTube is trying to help shrinking newsrooms expand their video coverage without increasing their payrolls. The assist comes in the form of 'YouTube Direct,' a free tool made for media interested York Dispatchhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96337221&Channel_ID=38&Category_ID=212009-11-23T23:15:00The 21st Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival (PSIFF) is starting to look like the road map for the 2009 award season with each passing week. Hot on the heels of its announcement that Anna Los Angeles Timeshttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96305298&Channel_ID=38&Category_ID=212009-11-23T16:46:00Terra Firma may have written off 90 percent of its investment in the label after Citigroup refused to ignore about half the debt it provided for the deal, but - slowly, slowly - EMI Group is turning a PaidContent UKhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96291489&Channel_ID=38&Category_ID=212009-11-23T08:34:00Spotify already previewed its in-development Symbian S60 app in September. Now itâ??s ready, giving the music service a much wider mobile footprint (Symbian runs half the worldâ??s smartphones). Premium PaidContent UKhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96268019&Channel_ID=38&Category_ID=212009-11-23T03:16:00Just as Las Vegas went from being a gangsters' paradise to a big business destination, so too is Napster in the midst of a remarkable transformation. The story arc isn't complete, and who knows what Napster's Varietyhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96338841&Channel_ID=38&Category_ID=212009-11-23T20:18:00General Fiasco supported the Enemy at HMV Kentish Town Forum It's been almost a year since I first saw General Fiasco play when they performed at the intimate Union Chapel in Islington, north London. Adferohttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96328293&Channel_ID=38&Category_ID=212009-11-23T17:04:00- By Glenn Peoples, Nashville Business Matters is a daily column that offers insight, analysis and opinion on the day's news. -- Expectations for Warner Music Group's fiscal Q4, according to Thomson Billboardhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96295371&Channel_ID=38&Category_ID=212009-11-23T13:30:00U2 has been confirmed as a headline act for the U.K.'s Glastonbury Festival in 2010. The Irish band will make their first appearance at the festival in Somerset next year, which also marks 40 years since Billboardhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96301686&Channel_ID=38&Category_ID=212009-11-23T12:17:00ne Australian songstress Sarah Blasko's critical and commercial hit album 'As Day Follows Night' is slated for a pan-European release in partnership with U.K. indie Dramatico next March. The ARIA Award-winner's Billboardhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96300761&Channel_ID=38&Category_ID=212009-11-23T11:20:00- Global By Andre Paine, London Universal Music Group International (UMGI) has appointed Andrew Kronfeld to the role of EVP, international marketing. Kronfeld is currently GM of Universal Motown Records Billboardhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96297639&Channel_ID=38&Category_ID=212009-11-23T11:20:00nd Catherine Neilan, The Bookseller Borders U.K. is once again the subject of feverish speculation after it was placed back on the market only four months after it was bought in a management buyout backed Billboard