Mariah Carey’s “All I Want For Christmas Is You” is the most played song at Christmas in the U.K. over the past decade, according to collecting societies PRS for Music and PPL.

Christmas music boosts sales, it’s been proven. Here are some seasonal favourites you’ll be hearing on the high street.

Music is playing such a critical role on fast-growing social networks that brand owners can no longer ignore it for brand-awareness strategies.

Over a third (36%) of Brits have had sex in a public park compared to less than a quarter (23%) of the French and on average, we’re having 5.2 ogasms a month.

Web-based companies remain reluctant to make their users pay - so how can they secure the revenue they need?

BT is attempting to make inroads into the legal music download service that will compete directly with Sky and Virgin Media.

Ofcom has just released its fourth Communications Market Report 2009 (August), which is a mammoth 334 page .PDF (Adobe Reader) document charting every conceivable variable of the UK’s Television, Radio and Telecoms (Voice, Broadband etc.) markets. It reveals that nearly 65% of UK households had a fixed-line broadband connection in Q1 2009, up from 58% a year previously.

BT, the UK’s largest ISP, has followed rivals BSkyB and Virgin Media with plans to launch a music subscription service to address the Government’s Digital Britain proposals to end piracy.

Ever feel that listening to La Roux and Little Boots would liven up those PowerPoint presentations? We’d like to know if your working lives would be made better with a soundtrack.

New research shows that the number of teenagers illegally sharing music has fallen dramatically in the past year.

The threat of being disconnected by an ISP after being warned three times against illegal downloading would either definitely or probably deter a full 80 percent of consumers, a survey has found…

A new survey by Entertainment Media Research has revealed that the interest of internet-connected TVs is bigger than ever.

LONDON - Consumers are willing to pay their ISPs up to 70% more on their monthly bills if it meant unlimited access to normally pirated content, such as TV programmes, movies and music, according to research.

UK consumers are prepared to spend on average £26 per month on digital entertainment content that is currently available for free or pirated, according to new research.

People who illegally download music would largely ignore warning letters telling them to stop, according to new research from law firm Wiggin.

A coalition of the U.K. creative industries has called on the government to take action against illegal file-sharing in its Digital Britain report, due next week.

The majority of consumers want to be able to watch online content through their TVs. While 17% already can do this, a further 58% say they would like to be able to do this.

Only one-third of surfers would stop downloading copyright-protected content from the web if their ISP sent them a warning letter, a survey has found.

A new UK survey finds that only one-third of P2P file-sharers would change their behavior after receiving a warning letter alone. If ISP disconnection remains on the table, that number jumps to 80 percent.

Lord Carter’s Digital Britain report has stopped short of delivering the necessary measures to combat internet piracy, according to the music and video industries.

The Recording Industry Association of America’s decision not to pursue new lawsuits against online file-sharers marks a fundamental shift in the music business’s battle against piracy, from one focused on enforcement to one emphasizing education.

New report calls for ISP’s to be stricter on culprits

Last week Frank Taubert of 24-7 Entertainment announced at Popkomm that three million out of his mobile catalog of 4.5 million songs had not been played a single time casting doubts over the Long Tail theory

Three quarters of eMusic’s entire four million track catalog sells at least once every year, or to put it another way, we sell more than 50% of our catalog at least once every quarter

Entertainment Media Research recently released figures that should give the music industry something to smile about, for a little while at least.

Music discovery on mobile devices may not be supporting long tail sales but the new digital music consumer is web savvy, and turns to social networks, blogs and the web to find out about new music

Britain in 2008 is a schizoid place. Take a look at this for evidence. Two pieces of research were published yesterday. One of them, conducted by a governor at one of the UK’s biggest prisons shows that lengthy sentences do not deter teenagers from carrying knives. The other, carried out by an entertainment research organisation, says that 75% of British music download pirates would stop - straightway- on receipt of an on-screen warning from their ISP.

According to a recent report many would be music pirates could be put off by warning from their Internet Service Providers.

Fewer people are downloading music from the internet illegally than ever before, according to a report this week from Entertainment Media Research.

Music retailers are confident their digital download stores have a future despite added competition from MySpace and YouTube. The social networks have signed deals with online retail giants Amazon and iTunes in the US to let visitors click to buy music from labels including EMI.