This Week’s Top Stories

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  It was a blue Christmas for CD sales. (more) Retail giant TransWorld holiday sales down 6%.  The real looser is the blockbuster CD as the Long Tail takes hold.
• More of the industry is jumping on the MP3 bandwagon including Limewire and least one major label. (Current odds are on EMI)
• Predictions for the music industry in 2007 (here) including some from Hypebot.
• A new study shows huge potential for an iPod phone.
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  Sirius ends the year with good numbers but faces new threats from in-car internet streaming and perhaps from digital radio.
• YouTube missed an important deadline to start filtering content.
• Napster reports 10% growth.