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CDs now for Xmas only? Performance royalties for British artists increased last year, driven by international agreements. Paid music use overseas was up almost 20 per cent to £166.9m, a healthy part of the £623m recorded by PRS For Music for 2009.… Wh

In the aftermath of the deal struck by Sony Music Entertainment and Michael Jackson's estate — reported Monday night by Tribune Newspapers — it's worth noting that Jackson, who died in June, essentially has the highest-paying recording contract of a

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David Compton's and Jennifer Bedell's hands never stopped moving as they talked about being volunteers with the American Red Cross. Bedell sorted through boxes, took protective newspaper wrappings from around music boxes and glass figurines, dusted them

Anoop Desai, 23, who was a graduate student at the University of North Carolina before Idol, has made the switch from academia to music. He's releasing his first EP, All Is Fair, May 4.