Music
MUSIC
Ngam.bigstep.com
is a new group attempting music. They are a newbie group of six
acappella hopefuls for whom the Harmony Awards is the first step to a
dream come true.
ConcaveScream.com.sg
is the website of homegrown music band Concave Scream. DiscVault.com is an online music
store that sells music CDs targeted at Asian consumers.
Ngam.bigstep.com
is a new group attempting music. They are a newbie group of six
acappella hopefuls for whom the Harmony Awards is the first step to a
dream come true.
Soft.com.sg
is a website dedicated to music making in Singapore. They have
links to musicians, studios, dealers, and where to find '
live' music on this little island.
TanyaChua.net
is a website dedicated to talented local singer & songwriter Tanya
Chua. Learn all about her here.
ThomsonJazz.com is the
website of Thomson Jazz Club, the only organisation dedicated to
the promotion of jazz music. It is home to the Thomson Big Band
- the premier large-scale jazz ensemble in the country.
Vivamusic.com This website, set up in 1999, lets you listen to
popular music on the Internet FREE. You can even download some of their
music.
NEWS SNIPPETS
One of Singapore's
first online distributors of MP3 music, Vivamusic.com, has closed. A
petition, filed by Epilogue Catering which is owed S$200,000 by the
multi-media music distributor, for the company to be wound up has been
ordered. Vivamusic was set up in 1998 to sell digital music files over
the Internet. (Straits
Times 5 Jan 2002) (H17)
Retail sales of compact discs and cassettes have shrunk by more than
half since 1997. They plunged from S$115 million that year to S$57.7
million in 1998 and slipped further last year to S$53 million. Music
lovers bought 5.4 million CDs in 1997, but only 3.84 million in 1998 and
3.77 million last year. Only 1.8 million CDs were sold in the first half
of 2000, a little less than the half-year total in 1998 and last
year. SPVA chairman Gary See said that cassettes used to command 70% of
the market in 1986 and now CDs make up 95% of the market. He noted that
the music industry was losing 20% of its annual sales to pirates.
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