Archive For February, 2010
Growth stalls in Japan's digital market
Growth has stalled in Japan’s digital sector, which no longer makes up for the steady decline in physical sales, despite a steady rise in PC-based downloads in the world’s No. 2 music market.
Tuesday, February 23, 2010Read more
iTunes Japan probed over false-billing claims
Is the investigation by the Japanese government’s Consumer Affairs Agency (CAA) into alleged false billing by iTunes Japan a form of retaliation for the U.S. government’s probe into troubled Japanese automaker Toyota? Pretty far-fetched, but that’s what some people believe, if various online postings are anything to go by.
Thursday, February 18, 2010Read more
A MIDEM miscellany
“La vie c’est dur sur la Côte d’Azur” -- so say the denizens of the Riviera with an ironic Gallic shrug. I thought I would come away from the 2010 edition of music-biz confab MIDEM (held, as always, in Cannes’ Palais des Festivals et des Congrès) paraphrasing that old saw as “la vie c’est dur dans l’industrie musicale.” But instead I found the mood at MIDEM (which took place Jan. 23-27) to be one of determined optimism.
Friday, February 5, 2010Read more
