The music business continues to change and evolve, where it stops only the visionary knows.
Music retailers have had enough with bootleggers, file shares and copyright infringer's. Recording artist, musicians, songwriters, music composers, producers, music labels and music publishers all want to get paid when music is sold. Then why are music retailers doing away with CD Singles once and for all? Mi2n.com broke the news story about a changing tied in the music business. As Ice Cube said "once again it's own!"
The real question is how will this effect independent music labels and recording artist bottom line, if at all?
According to Mi2n.com --The high street store group, which has been synonymous with the singles chart since its inception, believes downloads are the format consumers now want for single track buying and has announced that it will no longer sell CD singles in its stores from August, with the exception of one off event singles like the X-Factor winner which still sell hundreds-of-thousands of copies.
Woolworths believes the new site is unique in the market place as it offers music, video, games and mobile content on one website. Clear navigation and simple downloading mean the site is really easy to use. It is designed to appeal to people that aren't experienced downloaders and customers that currently download but are looking for an easier solution. For full details on
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