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/ 25 January 2007
Live music and internet-based social networking sites YouTube and MySpace are helping break new music acts — but video games are the latest new cool music space. ”It’s a great way of breaking new artists,” Joseph Stopps of independent, United Kingdom-based dance-music company MofoHifi said.
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/ 25 January 2007
Asia’s passion for singing and karaoke may be legendary, but now Asians are so enamoured of Western opera that Europe’s music academies are bursting at the seams with young Korean and Chinese opera students with stars in their eyes. ”The Koreans are mad about opera,” Christophe Capacci, the new artistic director for classical music and jazz at Midem.
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/ 19 October 2005
TV around the world is starting to ditch humiliation and confrontation in favour of the feel-good factor and good old-fashioned fun. That’s the big message from this year’s influential five-day Mipcom audiovisual trade show which opened its doors on Monday in the ritzy French Riviera resort of Cannes.
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/ 26 January 2004
Digital online music sales are taking off, boosted by the runaway success of Apple Computer’s iTunes launched last year, so the question is, who of the many new competitors will snare the market? Since its launch in the United States last April, iTunes has sold more than 30-million songs.