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Hypebot’s Music 2.0 Week In Review: Sales Down 21%, WMG MP3’s To Amazon, Jay-Z Leaves & More

This may have been a slow holiday week, but it didn’t stop a few major music industry stories from breaking…

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> Holiday music sales were down a whopping 21% from last year.

> The Warner Music family of labels (Warner, Elektra, Atlantic, Rhino and Nonesuch) started selling its catalog as DRM free mp3’s on Amazon.com leaving Sony BMG the last major label group adding unpopular copy protection. Our commentary dug into what this means for the music industry and consumers.

> Jay-Z announced he is leaving his executive post at Def-Jam. Stay tuned…

> A new study showed that marketing online is far more productive than TV or even print. There was a hint of hope for music magazines.

> The RIAA appears to be feeding its own anti-piracy "news" stories to local TV.

> OurDigitalMusic has a list of sites that claim to sell legal mp3 downloads cheaply but who have no deals with the major labels.

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