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HMV buys MAMA Group in live music takeover deal

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ShareEntertainment firm HMV is expanding its presence in the live music market by buying venue owner MAMA Group for £46m. HMV’s move comes nearly a year after it took a 9.9% stake in MAMA, which runs 11 concert venues including the Hammersmith Apollo. MAMA also owns other interests, including an artist management business which represents bands... »

Google opens OneBox music service

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Share Search giant Google has entered the online music market with a new service for finding and buying music online. OneBox is an alliance with music sites Lala and MySpace-owned iLike. The US-only service allows people to search using song titles, artists or using snippets of lyrics and will also stream sought-after tracks. Mark Mulligan, an analyst at... »

UK artists cash in on US charts

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Coldplay and Leona Lewis helped boost the British share of the US music market last year, new figures show. »

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