Band partners with Apple to promote its new single "Vertigo" with TV ads and a special iPod.
Wal-Mart Battles Labels Over CD Prices
- Rolling Stone, October 28, 2004
CD Prices on the Rise Again
- Rolling Stone, June 10, 2004
Labels Owe $50 Million
- Rolling Stone, June 10, 2004
Avril, 50 Reap DVD Success
- Rolling Stone, March 4, 2004
Apple Backlash
- Rolling Stone, February 5, 2004
2003 Comes Alive
- Rolling Stone, February 5, 2004
Song Pluggers
- Rolling Stone, January 22, 2004
Can Porn Kill File-Sharing?
- Rolling Stone, October 2, 2003
Downloaders Fighting Back
- Rolling Stone, September 26, 2003
Downloader "Doe" Fights RIAA
- Rolling Stone, September 10, 2003
Double Trouble
- Bullseye, August 2003
Digital Music Wars Heat Up
- Rolling Stone, July 28, 2003
Eminem's Empire - Rolling Stone, July 24, 2003
Apple Gets Indie Bands - Rolling Stone, July 10, 2003
Napster Returns - Rolling Stone, June 26, 2003
Apple's Big Hit - Rolling Stone, June 12, 2003
99-cent Downloads! - Rolling Stone, May 29, 2003
All The Rave: The Rise And Fall Of Shawn Fanning's Napster. By Joseph Menn. - Rolling Stone, May 1, 2003
Trading Music? You're Busted. - Rolling Stone, April 17, 2003
Common Law
- Bullseye, February 2003
"It's Gonna Be More Bloodshed" - Blender, November, 2002
Wyclef Arrested - Rolling Stone, July 25, 2002
CD Burning: How the Labels are Trying to Stop You - Rolling Stone, June 20, 2002
The Labels' Losing Battle - Rolling Stone, May 23, 2002
The Day the (Pirated) Music Died - Fortune, November 26, 2001
Digital Music Fans Face a Battle of the Bands - Fortune, October 29, 2001
Roadrunner Records - New York Magazine, October 22, 2001
Prince of All Media - Inside Magazine, March 30, 2001
O-Town: Building the Perfect Boy Band - Inside Magazine, January 31, 2001
Behind Big Bucks 'N Sync-MSN Deal, a Secret Backroom Fixer
- Inside.com, December 21, 2000
Universal Fires First Strike in Music Subscription War, but AOL Has Finger Poised on Button - Inside.com, October 27, 2000
With Radiohead's Kid A, Capitol Busts Out of Big-Time Slump. (Thanks, Napster.) - Inside.com, October 11, 2000
The
Offspring: Enfants Terribles in the Age of Napster - Inside.com, September 30, 2000
Exposed! The Secret Committee That Selects the Now Compilation CDs
- Inside.com, September 15, 2000
Napster and Majors Play Chicken With the Future
- Inside.com, August 2, 2000
Disney, McDonald's...Napster: What's a Brand Worth, Anyway? - Inside.com, July 14, 2000
Wallet Out, MP3.com Finds Many Upturned Hands - Inside.com, June 14, 2000
Napster is rocking the music industry - U.S.News & World Report,
March 6, 2000
They want their MP3 - U.S.News & World Report, July 16, 1999
Internet
Music - U.S.News & World Report, March 29, 1999
The nation's biggest record retailer wants to sell CDs at al 3,400 of its stores for less than $10, and record companies don't like it.
Universal promised $12.98 CDs. So why is D12 almost $20?
Thousands of artists to receive back royalties
Artists, labels turn to video format for sales boost
While iPods are still a hit, some users complain of faulty batteries
Classic-rock acts lead a record year in the concert business
Wal-Mart, Coke and MTV get in the online music biz
Record labels trying a new tack to shut down P2P networks
Despite lawsuits, traffic on file-sharing sites is booming
Kazaa user invokes her right to privacy in face of lawsuit
Outkast's new album delivers the best of both worlds
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New online music sites compete with Apple's iTunes
Em Inc. is expanding beyond CDs, live shows and movies with a record label, DVDs, video games, clothing - but still no "8 Mile" beer.
Deals could make iTunes the ultimate music store.
New legal version aims to compete with iTunes.
Online store sells more than 2 million songs in two weeks.
And it’s legal. Apple introduces a new, simple – and cheap – way of getting music online.
Review of new book about Napster.
One of the record labels' toughest challenges is convincing music fans that file sharing is illegal.
Love reigns supreme in this hip hop artist's domain.
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Could an article blaming Biggie for killing Tupac spark gang wars?
Hip-Hop artists protest New York school budget cuts
Fans protest as the record labels experiment with copy-protecting music
A History of Digital Music (Timeline)
The industry's plan for copy-proof CDs.
The major labels are unveiling two competing online music services
In the hit and miss music business, the metalheads at Roadrunners consistently rack up sales. Now aligned with Island Def Jam, can this quiet but dangerous company crank it up a notch?
Just in time for the post-Napster world, the eccentric purple one has unveiled a new music subscription site. Does his NPG Music Club have the funk to lead artists into revolution?
An unapologetically prefab fivesome culled from 1,800 hopefuls on an ABC reality show is the most cunningly marketed, cross-platformed boy band ever. Can the efforts of Clive Davis, teen-pop impresario Lou Pearlman and radio giant Clear Channel create the new 'N Sync? Band debuts at #5 on this week's charts.
Legendary Aerosmith manager Steve Leber, now teamed with dot-com ad network MusicVision, dreams up a potential $20-$30 million deal between the world's biggest boy band and software company.
With Version 6.0, America Online is primed to roll out a Napsteresque service to go with its new media player. Will the labels play along, or follow their own Farmclub.com-like path?
The band that would not be promoted oddly finds itself at the top of the charts as a record company in the dumps tries harnessing the power of the Internet.
The band's plans to give away its new album online well before the official release have people at Columbia secretly thrilled and publicly peeved. And everyone's wondering whether this radical test case will transform record marketing for good.
A multi-conglomerate, transnational collection of music execs has turned a kitschy, late-night staple into an industry powerhouse. Let the knockoffs begin.
Both sides could benefit if they just sat down and talked things out -- you know, rapped -- but arrogance and short-sightedness keep getting in the way.
Take away the free music from the site and what's left -- software, a famous name and a cool logo. That could still be worth millions.
After winning over two of the majors, company finds publishers looking to be paid once, twice, three times per recording.
The popular web site has powerful enemies.
The popular online music distributor gets ready to rock Wall Street with an IPO.
The song doesn't remain the same.