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Beastie Boys Accused Of Stealing Beats
nydailynews.com 2 weeks, 6 days agoThe Beastie Boys pirated beats and vocals from a funk group to make songs on their classic hip-hop albums “Licensed to Ill” and “Paul’s Boutique,” a new lawsuit charges. Record label Tuff City Music Group made the accusations in Manhattan Federal Court a day before Beastie Boys member MCA died of cancer on May 4.
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Spotify Plays Can Increase ITunes Sales. Here’s Proof!
techcrunch.com 3 weeks, 2 days agoDespite fears that streaming access cannibalizes sales, classical music record label X5 tells me when it launched an app within Spotify and saw streams of one album increase 412% in a month, that album’s iTunes sales shot up 50%. The Swedish label’s “The 50 Greatest Pieces of Classical Music” soon reached #1 on the iTunes Classical charts, and broke into the iTunes Top 200 album charts for the first time, hitting #152. The stats back up claims by some record labels and Spotify’s CEO Daniel Ek that there’s n
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