- International
- EMI ships 200K Beatles boxed sets, plus 4M single CDs
- EMI uses Fab Four as test for CD market potential
- Remastered Beatles hit file-share networks
- Whitney soars to #1 in US with 301K album sales
- Snoop Dogg named Chair of EMI’s Priority Records
- Vivendi offers $3B for Brazilian telco
- Technology/Marketing
- Telus acquires Black’s Photo business for $28M
- Canadian iPhones now have Skype
- Nimbit launches artist Facebook commerce app
- New Spotify app puts Pandora, Nokia in back seat
- 11th hour filing upends Google Books settlement
- Talent/Features
- Speech DeBelle wins Mercury Music Prize
- Lil Wayne tour grosses $42M
- Janet to honour Jacko at MTV Awards
- For acts, videogames now rival record deals
- Stones ’40th’ MSG live album respun as boxed sets
- Sean produces new Plastic Ono album
- Obituaries
- Canadian Brass trumpeter Fred Mills, aged 70
Today’s headlines, September 09
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