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The Daily Chord

For Wednesday August 1, 2004

This is The Daily Chord, part of the SXSW website in which we share a few pertinent stories from the music business each weekday. Join our email list and get the headlines in your inbox Monday through Friday.

Today's Stories:

• Boomers still buying CDs
Story from Detroit News.

• One last day of speculation before Microsoft's music launch
Story from AP via USA Today.

• Country execs pleased with sales numbers
Story from CMT.

• Tim McGraw sells 766k in #1 debut
Chart watch from Billboard.

• Satellite and web radio are new fronts in piracy battle
Story from AP.

• Napster CEO Chris Gorog interviewed
Story from Cnet.

• UK download chart starts today
Story from BBC News.

• Faces trio reunite on stage
Item from BBC News.

Previously:

• European digital music market forecast to take off
• Can the 800 pound gorilla catch up?
• Proof that music makes you smarter
• Learning to squash technologies early, a lesson from Napster
• Recalling Ray Charles' final sessions
• Eminem titles his November release
• Microsoft wants music store to bolster Windows
• Broadcast treaty battle at crucial stage
• Supercross is battlefield for media consolidation
• MTV awards listed
• Hype cycle for consumer technologies
• Pete Seeger's Toronto gig may be his last public performance
• RIP Laura Branigan
• Record collecting in the digital era
• Clear Channel antitrust suit gets go-ahead
• HP releases its iPod
• Time-shifting software for satellite radio likely to wind up in litigation
• No men allowed at the Pari Zanganeh show
• Teaching the adaptability of the accordion
• How the king of gymnastics music got shut out in Athens
• 744 more online piracy suits filed by RIAA
• FBI seizes computers in piracy raids
• MTV yanks Beenie Man performance
• Japan music companies raided over ringtones
• Spoofing recommended to stop file sharers
• The perils of shuffle mode
• Fantasy sports, rock version

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