Guardian Music — The growth of downloads helped the UK singles market enjoy its best year in history last year, with 152.7m sold, 98% of which were bought digitally, the British Phonographic Industry has said.The X Factor was behind many of last year's success storie... more info

Rolling Stone — The 2009 year-end Nielsen SoundScan numbers reveal that Taylor Swift edged Susan Boyle in terms of album sales, and that the Beatles and Michael Jackson can still move major units. But how did the music biz do overall last year? Slightly better than ... more info

Rolling Stone — The race for the best-selling album of 2009 was tight, and had Susan Boyle’s I Dreamed a Dream been released one week earlier, the headline on this story would be reversed. But according to Nielsen SoundScan’s final figures, Taylor Swift managed ... more info

The 9513 Country Music — Don Henley did it after the Eagles. John Fogerty managed it after Creedence Clearwater Revival. Paul McCartney pulled it off twice after the Beatles and Wings. Now, Jessica Harp is hoping for that elusive second-act success. For Jessica Harp, this n... more info

Don Henley did it after the Eagles. John Fogerty managed it after Creedence Clearwater Revival. Paul McCartney pulled it off twice after the Beatles and Wings. Now, Jessica Harp is hoping for that elusive second-act success. For Jessica Harp, this n... more info

Guardian Music — The Fab Four widow is to publish her autobiography in 2015, dishing the dirt on life with Lennon and the myths surrounding her role in the Beatles' break-upYoko Ono is to finally put pen to paper and tell us why the Beatles broke up. The Fab Four wid... more info

Undercover, Australia — What about those new kids called The Beatles hey. Didn`t they have a good year last year. more info

Pitchfork - Forkcast — Photo by Don Felix Cervantes Here's some video-in-a-video of Antony Hegarty's performance of "Here Comes the Sun" from the Sundance Channel's "Live From Abbey Road" series. Antony mentions a few favorite Beatles' covers, including Ray Charles' classi... more info

Rolling Stone — Before the end of the decade, Beatles fans will have a new book in their hands: a memoir by Yoko Ono revolving around her life with John Lennon. “I would love to do it. I just have to find the time,” Ono said. “It will be my next book, which wi... more info

MTV.com News — The Beatles, Black Eyed Peas and Susan Boyle also top the list.By James Montgomery Taylor Swift's Fearless Photo: Big Machine Records Well, the final numbers have been crunched and the end result is something we pretty much suspected all a... more info