Music industry

While many US readers are used to albums being released on Tuesdays, several record industry heavyweights are working on selecting a universal release date to crack down on digital piracy. The music industry is hoping to adopt Friday as its global street release date starting a year from now, in July 2015. ...

In 2009, Chingy was clinging to the final vestiges of what was once a chart-topping career; his fourth album, Hate It Or Love It, became his first since his 2003 debut Jackpot to not break into the Billboard 200 Top 10 albums chart, and it wasn't even close. It had b...

Former Def Jam and Warner Music Group chief Lyor Cohen has announced the full details of his new music company, which he's launching with old Def Jam pals Todd Moscowitz and Kevin Liles. Not quite a record label, not quite a marketing company, the new venture is trying to create a template for the future of the music industry—which is why Cohen has named it 300, after the famous Spartan battle aga