The billionth digital single was downloaded in the UK on Tuesday night, the Official Charts Company have announced. The landmark sale was reached ...
There's a growing number of people for whom HMV didn't sell the product they wanted. The retailer might have accounted for 40% of physical sales but they didn't want physical items. They wanted data. No matter how cheaply HMV sold it, it wasn't what they wanted.
On the one hand, people are not paying for recorded music in the way that they used to; on the other, a large proportion of those who do, still prefer something tangible they can hold in their hand.
It was my recent trip to New York that brought it home to me. Walking around this most fraught and amazing city I tried to find somewhere to buy a CD from an American singer I like called Greg Laswell. But not one place could I find and on asking waiters and the concierge they couldn't help either.
The BBC is planning to set up a "digital shop" allowing viewers to pay to download old programmes. Director-General Mark Thompson said the idea - d...
