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Coalition of Independent Music Stores Top 200 for Week Ending 12-17-06

Pos. ARTIST | TITLE 1 BEATLES|LOVE    2 CALE/CLAPTON|ROAD TO ESCONDIDO 3 MAYER*JOHN|VILLAGE SESSION EP 4 YOUNG JEEZY|INSPIRATION: THUG 5 WAITS*TOM|ORPHANS 6 MCLACHLAN*SARAH|WINTERSONG 7 STEVENS*SUFJAN|SONGS FOR CHRIS 8 DYLAN*BOB|MODERN TIMES. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 12/20/2006 in Vinyl, Cassettes & Retail | Permalink | Comments (0)
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Amazon To Enter Crowded Download Market With MP3 Only Store

Late last week Amazon began circulating contracts to labels aiming for a late 1st Q ’07 music download store launch.  Rumors of an Amazon entry have been circulating all year,. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 12/18/2006 in Indie Music | Permalink | Comments (21)
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Labels Find Profits Despite Declining Sales

The New York Times took a look at how labels are finding profits despite declining sales: "…Warner Music executives provided cost-analysis data from a successful hip-hop record released in the. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 12/11/2006 in Vinyl, Cassettes & Retail | Permalink | Comments (1)
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Coalition of Independent Music Stores Top 200 for Week Ending 12-03-06

Pos. ARTIST | TITLE 1 BEATLES|LOVE    2 INCUBUS|LIGHT GRENADES 3 WAITS*TOM|ORPHANS 4 CALE/CLAPTON|ROAD TO ESCONDIDO 5 JAY-Z|KINGDOM COME 6 CLIPSE|HELL HATH NO FURY 7 YOUNG*NEIL & CR|LIVE AT THE. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 12/06/2006 in Vinyl, Cassettes & Retail | Permalink | Comments (1)
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Coalition of Independent Music Stores Top 200 for Week Ending 10-29-06

Pos. ARTIST|TITLE 1 MY CHEMICAL ROM|BLACK PARADE,T 2 BECK|INFORMATION 3 DYLAN*BOB|MODERN TIMES 4 LEGEND*JOHN|ONCE AGAIN 5 BRIGHT EYES|NOISE FLOOR (RARIT 5 DECEMBERISTS|CRANE WIFE 7 KILLERS|SAM’S TOWN 8 CONVERGE|NO HEROES 9. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 11/01/2006 in Vinyl, Cassettes & Retail | Permalink | Comments (0)
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Universal Drops Euro Catalog Download Prices

Universal is dropping the European pricing on 1500 classic albums including titles from The Who, Stevie Wonder, Bob Marley and others.  These titles will now sell for about 6.99 euros. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 10/31/2006 in Major Labels | Permalink | Comments (0)
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Coalition Of Indie Music Store Charts For 10-25-06

Pos. ARTIST|TITLE 1 BECK|INFORMATION 2 DECEMBERISTS|CRANE WIFE 3 KILLERS|SAM’S TOWN 4 BETWEEN THE TRE|STORY AND THE 5 DYLAN*BOB|MODERN TIMES 6 BLOOD BROTHERS|YOUNG MACHETES 7 EVANESCENCE|OPEN DOOR 8 RANDOLPH*ROBERT|COLORBLIND 9 TRIVIUM|CRUSADE. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 10/25/2006 in Vinyl, Cassettes & Retail | Permalink | Comments (3)
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Coalition of Independent Music Stores Top 200 for Week Ending 10-08-06

Pos. ARTIST|TITLE 1 BECK|INFORMATION 2 DECEMBERISTS|CRANE WIFE 3 KILLERS|SAM’S TOWN 4 HOLD STEADY|BOYS & GIRLS IN AM 5 DYLAN*BOB|MODERN TIMES 6 EVANESCENCE|OPEN DOOR 7 SCISSOR SISTERS|TA-DAH 8 TV ON THE. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 10/12/2006 in Vinyl, Cassettes & Retail | Permalink | Comments (0)
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Tower To Be Liquidated

After what was reportedly an intense 30 hour auction, venerable music retailer Tower Records will be liquidated.  Liquidators Great American beat music retailer Trans World by $500,000 paying $134.4 million. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 10/07/2006 in Vinyl, Cassettes & Retail | Permalink | Comments (0)
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Tower Auction Today. TransWorld And Radius Seen As Top Bidders

Today is auction day for Tower Records (more) and according to HITS Rumor Mill: It’s looking more and more like the Tower auction will come down to Trans World Entertainment. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 10/05/2006 in Vinyl, Cassettes & Retail | Permalink | Comments (0)
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