The music industry's last-ditch effort to revive compact-disc sales with a massive price cut might have seemed downright visionary a few years ago, but now it smacks of desperation. After years of ...

If the price of a CD falls but no one really cares, does it still make a sound? You don't need to be a business major to figure out why Universal Music Group, the world's largest record company, has ...

Though students might be jumping for joy now over the low price of CDs, don’t expect it to last. Stores such as Best Buy that employ “loss leaders,” (cheaper products to get customers into the store ...

With new releases coming from chart-topping heavyweights Sting, Dave Matthews, Elvis Presley and, um ... Clay Aiken, the most anticipated major label move is a Crazy Eddie-like slashing of prices.

Is there any doubt that the value of purchased music is plummeting? Universal, one of the big four record labels, is planning to cut the prices of almost all of its ...