The Orchard To Merge With Digital Music Group

According to reports, The Orchard will merge with Digital Music Group. The Orchard is a well-known digital music company that caters to independent labels who want to distribute their music to online stores such as iTunes. Digital Music Group does much of the same, but also has a foothold in the online video business as well. The combined company will trade publicly under the Digital Music Group’s Nasdaq listing. However, it will be...

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Last.fm Inks Deal With Sony/BMG

Last.fm, the U.K.-based online music-recommendation service, has inked a content deal with Sony/BMG Music Entertainment. As the third major to sign up, Sony/BMG joins EMI and Warner Music Group that have made deal with Last.fm to allow recordings by their artists to be streamed on Last.fm. Works handled by online-music aggregators such as the Orchard and IODA are also cleared for use on Last.fm. Subscribers can listen to tracks and...

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