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Why Are Music Sales Dropping? Because It’s Hard to Buy Music

in Media on December 2, 2008 at 4:34 am PT

Americans spent billions on CDs last year. But big-box retailers are increasingly uninterested in selling the discs in their stores. Newest data point: Borders Group, which has cut its music inventory by 30 percent in the last year.

Get Yer Free Britney Spears Here. Or on iMeem

in Media on November 24, 2008 at 2:39 pm PT

Give the music industry credit–a decade after the original Napster, it’s now standard practice to let fans listen to an entire disc worth of new music, for free, before it ever gets to stores. The latest example: Britney Spears’s new album, “Circus,” which you can listen to at iMeem.com. Or at the bottom of this post, via a groovy embeddable player.