Recording Industry Association of America

RIAA adds gold, platinum awards for digital music streams

2013-05-09 14:52:00

Sales are no longer the only path to gold and platinum in the music business. The Recording Industry Assn. of America, the music business trade association that certifies and issues the storied gold and platinum awards, will now hand out precious metal...

A federal judge takes on 'copyright trolls'

2013-04-09 19:47:00

There are trolls who live under bridges in fantasy novels. Then there are "copyright trolls." The latter have always occupied one of the most squalid corners of the legal system. They're people or firms that acquire copyrights to movies, music or...

Cheap Trick to revisit 'At Budokan' at the El Rey on April 30

2013-04-04 11:45:00

How best to celebrate the 35th anniversary of a beloved live album? By re-creating it onstage, of course. That's the approach being taken by Cheap Trick, which announced Thursday that it plans to play "Cheap Trick at Budokan," the power-pop veterans'...

SXSW 2012: Artists, you have 42 different ways to make money

2012-03-17 21:37:03

Entertainment giants and broadband providers team up on piracy effort

2011-07-07 16:33:40

The Internet: Proudly flying the pirate flag

2011-07-08 16:35:43

Tennessee outlaws sharing passwords to Hulu, Netflix, Rhapsody and other sites

2011-06-02 16:36:30

Soundgarden scores instant platinum status via Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock

2010-09-28 21:35:35

Brand X Files: Dan Gordon-Levitt's death. 'Entourage' house for sale. Facebook 'I like it' statuses.

2010-10-06 16:35:14

The 'Glee' cast surpasses Beatles on Billboard Hot 100 chart, inches closer to James Brown and Elvis Presley

2010-10-06 16:34:37

Tech industry to RIAA, radio biz: Keep your 'legacy technology' demands away from our cellphones

2010-10-11 16:34:48

LimeWire goes down, but where do its users go?

2010-10-26 21:34:43

The RIAA will present new digital stream awards plaques to Cher Lloyd, Jason Derulo and Emeli Sande on May 9 in Los Angeles.

2013-05-09 14:37:41

The music-sharing service may have lasted two short years (June 1999- July 2001), but those years not only let us fill our music library until it bulged at the seams but changed the way we felt about paying for, well, everything.

2012-06-26 00:00:00

A photograph of Nodar Kumaritashvili, together with a bouquet of flowers, stands under the Olympic Rings on a steet in Whistler on Friday. The 21-year-old from the Republic of Georgia died from injuries he sustained in a high-speed crash during a men's singles luge training run.

2010-02-12 00:00:00