Posted Thu 30 Apr 2009 11:44AM BST
HMV saw its year on year sales volume increase by 11.7% for the
four months leading up to 25 Apr. You see, years of rejigging and
revamping and rebranding, and all HMV bosses needed to do to turn round
their business was push Zavvi over a cliff. . 
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 Thu 30 Apr 2009 11:41AM BST
I knew Capital FM's plans to launch a Summertime Ball could only lead
to something sinister, and I was right. Blue are going to reform to
play the event. Yeah, like we need that. And not only will the tedious
foursome warble their tunes at the Lon Posted Thu 30 Apr 2009 11:39AM BST
Rihanna shall have her jewels, so that's nice. Not that they were
hers to start with. Prosecutors preparing the case against Rihanna's
ex-boyfriend and beater Chris Brown have said they will return various
items of jewellery which the songstress w Posted Thu 30 Apr 2009 11:36AM BST
Trois-strikes is back people. Yes, less than a month after French
opposition MPs sneakily took advantage of a low pre-Easter turn out in
the country's parliament to bump government proposals for new rules
regarding copyright online, including the Posted Wed 29 Apr 2009 12:19PM BST
I'm sure we report on Britney's various restraining orders every
other day - there's only three in operation, the legalities behind them
must be very complicated. Anyway, an LA judge issued new restraining
orders against Ms Spears' former sort-of- Posted Wed 29 Apr 2009 12:16PM BST
The BBC yesterday announced that it would not air an interview with
former Radio 1 DJ Andy Kershaw on Radio 4's 'On The Ropes', which looks
at "the lives of successful people who have weathered storms in their
careers". ... Posted Wed 29 Apr 2009 12:12PM BST
The legal rep of The Pirate Bay's money man, the fascist loving
(allegedly) Carl Lundstrom, has requested a retrial for him and the
rogue BitTorrent tracker's three founders after those revelations last
week that the judge who ruled on the origina Posted Wed 29 Apr 2009 12:09PM BST
You know how we always said from the very start that record
companies suing individual file-sharers was counter-productive and an
unnecessary expense that would never be compensated for by out-of-court
settlements or damages payments? Yeah, well, Posted Tue 28 Apr 2009 1:32PM BST
Gigwise's Indie Idle competition reached its final stages at the
Camden Crawl at the weekend, and the band who emerged victorious,
following several rounds, were the rather buzzy Milke. The group, who
are from East London, beat competition from hu Posted Tue 28 Apr 2009 1:27PM BST
MGMT say they've reached a settlement with France's UMP, the
political party of French president Nicolas Sarkozy, who the band
claimed were infringing copyright by using their track 'Kids' at
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