
So, how do people working in music know who's signing who, what those pesky record labels are up to, what the latest download whatnot is, who is moving and shaking, who is spending and saving, who is planning and scheming, or, for that matter, what Pete and Amy and Britney are up to? Simple, they read CMU Daily, the UK music business' biggest and most popular daily news bulletin. Now you to can get the lowdown from Team CMU, here on the CMU-Blog. You'll find even more at www.thecmuwebsite.com
Posted Wed 15 Oct 2008 12:07PM BST
CMU is teaming up with MUZU to champion the best unsigned talent throughout November. Each day we will tip a different unsigned or self-releasing band in our SNAP Of The Day slot, linking to their MUZU channel and featuring their content on the CMU-T More »
Posted Fri 10 Oct 2008 2:57PM BST
Play.com has followed rivals 7Digital to become the second UK download store offering DRM-free music from all four major record companies as well as the independents.As previously reported, while Amazon in the US got to capitalise quite quickly on Un More »
Posted Fri 10 Oct 2008 2:55PM BST
US retailer WalMart has backtracked and said it will continue to operate its DRM servers. The US supermarket giant recently said it would no longer support music files that were bought from its download store before it went DRM-free earlier this year More »
Posted Wed 1 Oct 2008 12:59PM BST
Just in case anyone still needed more evidence that digital rights management on music was the stupidest idea in the world ever, WalMart in the US last weekend told their digital music customers that they are about to turn off their DRM servers which More »