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The Jamaica Music Museum will open in Kingston in 2010 featuring rare pieces from the island's music history including Martha Velez's Escape From Babylon, produced by GRAMMY Hall Of Fame inductee Bob Marley.

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"The Weary Kind (Theme From Crazy Heart)," co-written by Ryan Bingham and 10-time GRAMMY winner T Bone Burnett, won the Oscar for Music (Original Song) at the 82nd Annual Academy Awards.

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Napster Japan has reported that it will end its service May 31, closing what was the country's first digital music subscription service.

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Gaming developer Harmonix and MTV Games have launched the Rock Band Network Music Store, which allows independent artists to submit their music as downloadable, add-on content to the game without a formal licensing process.

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The Austrian recorded music market generated revenue of $248 million in 2009, a 1.6 percent decline from the year prior, and unit sales of physical albums, digital downloads and bundles increased 3 percent to 22.1 million units.

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