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Analysts fear the worldwide music market plummeted 10% in value to $33 billion last year – the worst drop in record business history. Official stats are due April 16 from the industry’s trade group the Intl. Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), but the estimated scale of the downturn has alarmed observers. Much of the blame is laid on pirated music downloaded from the Internet, especially in the United States, as well as more consumers burning copies of CDs. The IFPI reckons that for every CD purchased, another is burned. Meanwhile, organized piracy is still on the rise, particularly in… Read more »

Avoiding what was expected to be an intense bidding war over Kurt Cobain’s journals, a New York imprint snapped up the world publishing rights on Monday for a seven-figure sum. Publishers who got an advance look at the diaries were told to submit their bids by 11 a.m. on Monday, but the auction was called off around 10 a.m. after a deal was struck with Riverhead Books, a division of Penguin Putnam. “The journals are an intimate, unadulterated portrait of an artist of great influence,” Riverhead’s Julie Grau, who will be the project’s editor, said in a statement released Tuesday… Read more »

Bon Jovi are set to begin tracking their eighth album and follow-up to 2000’s comeback success, Crush. For the album, tentatively titled “Bounce,” the band will again call on their Crush cohort Luke Ebbin to co-produce (alongside singer Jon Bon Jovi and guitarist Richie Sambora), in Los Angeles’ Henson (formerly A&M) Studios and at Sanctuary, Bon Jovi’s home studio in New Jersey. Thus far they’ve penned twenty-six songs – among them the front-runner for leadoff single, “Everyday” – and expect to write considerably more before the process is through (sixty tracks were written for Crush). No firm release date has… Read more »

Waitresses will have to excuse Nickelback if they order their eggs Silver Side Up – the Canadian rockers are focused on promoting their new record, and to that end they’ve just announced dates for a headlining fall U.S. tour. Silver Side Up, the band’s second album, features the hit single “How You Remind Me” and currently sits at #5 on the Billboard 200 albums chart after peaking at #3. Nickelback will jet to Europe on Thursday for three weeks before returning to the States for their headlining stint, which begins October 30 at the Showbox in Seattle. Fellow Canadians Default… Read more »

Pressplay, a online music joint venture between recording giants Vivendi Universal’s Universal Music and Sony Corp.’s Sony Music, is still on track to launch this fall, a spokesman said Friday. The Pressplay spokesman declined to comment on a specific launch date for the service, which was originally earmarked to launch in September by Vivendi Executive Vice President Edgar Bronfman Jr at an industry conference in July. Many of Pressplay’s employees are based in New York City, where business has been severely disrupted by the attacks on the World Trade Center, the spokesman said. Pressplay and MusicNet, a competing music joint… Read more »

Britney Spears will grab another page from the Madonna playbook this fall with a “really, really theatrical” tour that will chart her journey toward full-blown, snake-toting adulthood, according to tour director and choreographer Wade Robson. The tour is slated to kick off in Miami next month and will include revamped versions of Britney’s hits, plus plenty of new songs from her upcoming third album, presumably including the just-debuted “I’m a Slave 4 U,” which she performed at Thursday’s MTV Video Music Awards. “The show is gonna be really, really theatrical – it’s really complicated,” Robson said on the red carpet… Read more »

Irish rock band U2, which just finished a European tour, will return to North America in October for 15 arena dates, the group’s promoter said. The tour will begin on Oct. 10 at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana and will conclude on Nov. 18 in Las Vegas, according to a statement issued on Monday by Clear Channel Entertainment, a unit of Clear Channel Worldwide. U2 will also play Chicago, Baltimore, New York City, East Rutherford, Providence, Philadelphia, Austin, Denver, Salt Lake City, Los Angeles, Oakland and the Canadian cities of Montreal and Hamilton. U2 have already grossed an… Read more »

O-Town has snagged an opening slot on Britney Spears fall tour. Only 10 dates have been confirmed thus far for the tour, which will kick off in Miami on Oct. 26. Spears will be touring in support of her upcoming as-yet-untitled new album, due Nov. 6 on Jive Records. Britney Spears/O-Town Tour Dates: Oct. 25 – Miami, American Airlines Arena Oct. 27, Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., National Car Rental Arena Oct. 28 – Tampa, Fla., Ice Palace Oct. 31 – Washington, D.C., MCI Center Nov. 2 – Pittsburgh, Mellon Arena Nov. 5 – Toronto, Air Canada Centre Nov. 7 – Uniondale,… Read more »

In support of its forthcoming album fifth album, Live will hit the road in October with Jane’s Addiction, according to a source close to the band. While the dates for the jaunt are still not set in stone, a likely kickoff date of Oct. 2 in Boston has been tentatively set for the tour. The trek was originally set to begin on Aug. 15 and a tentative routing was released in June but it was later postponed. Live will belt out tunes from its latest effort, V (previously known as Estatic Fanatic), due Sept. 18 on Universal/Radioactive Records. The first… Read more »

Funk/punk/rap-rockers 311 will follow their summer on the Warped Tour with an extensive headlining tour across North America. The group will kick off a two-month swing in support of its latest album, From Chaos, at the Street Scene in San Diego on September 8 and play more than three dozen shows through the end of October. The trek culminates in a Halloween performance at the Universal Amphitheater in the group’s home base of Los Angeles. Shows in Texas and New Mexico from October 22-27 are also expected to be announced in the coming days. Frontman Nick Hexum tells LAUNCH that… Read more »