News The Backstreet Boys have sold more albums than The Beatles in Canada in past 20 years Shania Twain has bestselling album in country since 1995
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News iTunes: music, movie, TV and e-book sales drop 7% iTunes revenues make up 3.5% of Apple's total cash haul
News Alt-J, Caribou, Frankie Chavez and Sleaford Mods nominated for ‘European Mercury’ Twenty-three nominees up for IMPALA prize
News Google Play growing at ‘unprecedented speed’, reaches 58 countries YouTube 'watch time' up 50% year-on-year
Analysis Apple makes more money every 3 weeks than the entire recorded music industry does in a year See how small 'major' music companies are compared to Cupertino giant
Analysis ‘Old’ albums now outsell new albums on iTunes in America Annual sales of new albums have plummeted by more than 150m in the past ten years
News Sony scraps its own streaming service, partners with Spotify Users to be transferred to Spotify in March
Analysis Streaming now makes more money than iTunes in Italy Streaming now at 22% of the market, according to MBW analysis
News Red Bull Records strikes deal to expand into India, China and South Korea JV inked with Secret Signals in Far East
News One Direction and Nicki Minaj song shares acquired by ole RedOne Productions' 2101 Songs company snapped up
News Canada: Taylor Swift, Sam Smith, Ed Sheeran amongst 2014’s bestselling albums 1989 the only album to sell 300k+
News Dean James adds £20m to Sixth Group’s acquisition warchest IPO in the sights of MAMA founder's new company