Sites for CD-quality and studio master downloads: Qobuz: This French site is now the world’s best megastore record store for downloads. While the catalog is not quite as deep as Amazon or iTunes, it ...

I've written about CD Baby before. It's a great way for independent musicians to sell their recordings. For a one-time fee of $35 per album, it will set up both mail-order distribution (for which it ...

For the last couple of years, the music industry’s top lobbying group, the Recording Industry Association of America, has insisted that there’s a link between free music downloads and slumping CD ...

The number of Internet users paying for digital music increased by just over 8 million in 2008 to 36 million Internet users, and purchases of online digital music downloads increased by 29 percent ...

The compact disc has at least another five years as the most popular music format before online downloads chip away at its dominance, according to a new study. Jupiter Research said in its annual… By ...

As 2005 comes to a close, the music industry is singing the same old tune: The Sales Slump Blues. According to Nielsen SoundScan, the information system that tracks sales of music and music video ...

For the third time this year -- and only the fourth time ever -- the year-to-date total sales of digital albums have exceeded those of CDs. According to Nielsen SoundScan, so far in 2014 through the… ...

NEW YORK --Compact disc shipments fell 7 percent in the first six months of this year compared with last year as growing use of Internet downloading services undermined sales, the record industry said ...