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Byline: David Winzelberg Melville-based A&G Real Estate Partners plans to market 27 leases for Sam Ash stores in 12 states across the country, pending court approval. A&G, which specializes in [...]

Huawei Consumer Business Group (CBG), recently launched its own Music Streaming Service across five markets in the MENA region Huawei Consumer Business Group (CBG), recently launched its own Music Streaming [...]

Music & Arts has acquired the four Mississippi Music stores, located in Flowood, Biloxi, Hattiesburg and Meridian, Mississipi. These acquisitions represent the very first Music & Arts locations in the [...]

Why does Capital Music Center prominently display a 1930s-era Royal typewriter in its showroom? Its a visual metaphor for a quaint' antiquated tool that has been replaced by something infinitely [...]

Fountain Square retailer Square Cat Vinyl, 1054 Virginia Ave., plans to nearly double in size, adding about 2,400 square feet that was previously occupied by Vintage Vogue, a Goodwill store [...]

HMV's new owner Doug Putman has told Music Week of his ambitions to 'grow and expand' the UK's last music chain. Putman, owner and CEO of Canada's Sunrise Records, acquired [...]

MICHAEL COLE AND TINA Landon are planning to open Loud Music in Wilmington, North Carolina in October. The novel business format combines music lessons and a well-equipped rehearsal space, along [...]

MTS Inc. known as Tower Records is expanding business through planning new and rehabbed stores and running an advertisement campaign in San Francisco after its brief bankruptcy reorganization. Tower knows it needs to be strong on the digital front and plans to address the demand for digital downloading with its own digital initiative while Tower Records' online store is one of the largest music stores in the business.

Since renegotiating a crucial debt payment, Guitar Center Inc. has gone on the offensive. To compete against online vendors, the music retailer has an array of initiatives to offer music [...]

TWO VETERANS of the Nashville music retail scene are pulling up stakes from their long-held home on 12th Avenue South. Music City mainstays Corner Music and Fork's Drum Closet sold [...]

RETAIL ANALYSTS SAY HMV is facing its toughest challenge yet as it looks to satisfy shareholders and investors about its further move into selling technology products. With the company's AGM [...]

Byline: AMANDA FUNG For seven years, LimeWire has developed a reputation on college campuses as the online service to use to get a free copy of the latest Justin Timberlake [...]

HMV Group has announced a strategic review of its operations, following a profit warning in mid-March. The company, which owns the Waterstones and HMV retail chains, plans to reduce costs, [...]

Chain store bosses roll out initiatives to build on encouraging figures over past five weeks by Ben Cardew The heads of HMV and Virgin Retail have revealed their companies' plans [...]

Music Zone is planning an ambitious campaign of organic growth over the coming year, on the back of an update to its retail offer and changes to the company's infrastructure. [...]

Microsoft Corp. on Friday confirmed plans to launch its own portable music player and online music service to compete with Apple Computer Inc.'s market-dominating iPod and iTunes. The software giant […]

As PART OF a restructuring of its entire retail operations, MTS Inc., the parent company of Tower Records, is revamping its book group, a move that will reduce the company's [...]

Guitar-strumming retiree picks a different route to fund nonprofit effort Ray Nelson billed himself as 'The No. 1 Singer of Motorcycle Songs' when he released his first and only album [...]

Perhaps as much as any entity in the Puerto Rico music industry, retail kingpin Casa de los Tapes has served as an engine of growth and innovation. The family-run company, [...]

Many Say The Time Is Now To Set Standards On Clearinghouse, Other Services NEW YORK--With the major labels set to begin rolling out digital content in the coming months, the [...]

NEW YORK--The Musicland Stores Corp.--which operates 1,345 stores under the Sam Goody, Suncoast, MediaPlay, and OnCue brands--has put into place part of its emerging digital-commerce strategy with the selection of [...]

NEW YORK--As the Sony Music and Time Warner-backed Columbia House readies for its pending integration with E-tailer CDnow (Billboard, Feb. 19) and Universal Music's Farmclub.com begins to take root, BMG [...]

NEW YORK--In taking a minority equity position in Supersoni.com, the Musicland Group has found yet another way to implement a click-and-brick strategy. The Supersoni.com Web site functions as a virtual […]

BERTELSMANN'S ONLINE ARM, BOL, is to set up music retail sites in four European territories next month. Local sites in the U.K. (www.uk.bol.com), Germany www.bol.de), France (www.bol.fr), and the Netherlands […]

CD Store Caters To Rich And Famous In Small Mountain Retreat TELLURIDE, Colo.--Seven hours west of Denver, Telluride is as far out as the hippies who communed with nature during […]

MINNEAPOLIS-Musicland Stores Corp. plans to open four new Media Play stores. The concept stores to open by the end of 1999 will be located in metro-area Buffalo, N.Y.; outside Toledo, [...]

LONDON--The managing director of the U.K.'s 230 store Our Price chain is staying put despite parent company Virgin Entertainment Group's (VEG) decision to put his proposed management buyout (MBO) on […]

American Music Stores of Detroit, which operates the Grinnell Brothers chain of music stores, has announced its plans to hold a public offering of its shares. Net proceeds of the [...]

NEW YORK--Musicland Stores, the largest music retailer in the U.S., has revealed an Internet commerce strategy that is more ambitious--and potentially more profitable--than those of some of its competitors. The […]