Though plastic sales may be waning, value may remain in ascribing physical characteristics to virtual content. But do “digital album signing” and “second-hand MP3s” add up to real innovation? Read more »
The debate over whether artists get enough money from streaming played out in public last week when EMI and Spotify executives failed to win… Read more »
It’s taken ten years, and a last leg up by way of an acquisition of a competitor, but Rhapsody says that it has finally reached one million… Read more »
When Vivendi (EPA: VIV) announced it was buying EMI’s recorded music division last week, it cryptically said the deal would see it sell “500… Read more »
On the heels of news last week that it has secured EMI’s recorded music division for nearly $2 billion, Universal Music is again in the news… Read more »
Four years after the whole label sold to Terra Firma for £4.2 ($6.69) billion, now one half of EMI Group – the record music division, EMI M… Read more »
Following on from Part 1 of the ‘Innovation Files’ series, this post looks at EMI’s OpenEMI initiative and how it could drive transformation… Read more »
A major battle over cloud-music services has been resolved, and on balance, it looks like a pretty solid win for the small music-locker serv… Read more »
Warner Music Group’s sale to Access Industries has been completed for $8.25 per share in cash, or $3.3 billion. The record label’s board app… Read more »
After the sale to Terra Firma, the ensuring disaster, the salvage by Citigroup and the refinancing, could the next chapter for EMI be… ano… Read more »
Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has yet to make any public announcements on cloud-based music services, but some more details have emerged that seem to i… Read more »
Our look at some of the big stories in mobile today: Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) files patents that point to a cloud service; two UK operators launch… Read more »
eMusic, the online music “club” that offers members discounts on tracks in exchange for a monthly subscription fee, has struck a deal with a… Read more »
Our look at some of the big stories in mobile today: Apple’s apparently getting closer to a cloud music product after signing a deal with EM… Read more »
EMI Music Publishing is pulling in-house from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) how some of its songs are li… Read more »
Our rundown of mobile news to start your day. Today we look at the newest reports around Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and cloud services; Motorola’s n… Read more »
New forecasts out today for the mobile music market from Juniper Research: it will bring in revenues of $5.5 billion by 2015, compared to $3… Read more »
Radiohead’s last album, In Rainbows, was a little misunderstood in so far as, following its initial online-only release on a pay-what-you-li… Read more »
EMI Music is finally licensing Beatport, a specialist online retailer of electronica music, in a deal that will satisfy many electronic musi… Read more »
EMI Group’s holding company Maltby Investments Ltd, after defaulting on its loans, has called in PwC as administrators, who have in turn sol… Read more »
» With even digital music sales flagging these days, it’s hardly surprising that Warner Music Group (NYSE: WMG), one of the four… Read more »
Nokia’s struggle to compete against Apple (NSDQ: AAPL), and drive more sales of its own smartphones, hit a new low today, as the Finnish com… Read more »
iTunes Store may have an exclusive on The Beatles digital downloads today. But that special treatment will only last “in to 2011″, EMI Music… Read more »
In many ways, it seems like the “bad old days” between content and internet companies are over. While Viacom’s high-profile copyright lawsui… Read more »
EMI again isn’t detailing how much money it’s making from digital in latest earnings, but it is saying estimates for digital growth were too… Read more »
By Jemima Kiss: Here is the spot where the video for Jay-Z and Alicia Keys spoof Newport State of Mind once lived… Read more »
Digital news today from EMI and *Apple* Records. No, it’s not the Beatles. That would make too much sense and deprive us of writing the same… Read more »
The umpteenth restructure at EMI Group, since the Terra Firma takeover three years ago, sees the chief of one of its two divisions upped to… Read more »
EMI Music has chosen former Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) Europe exec Bertrand Bodson as SVP, global digital marketing. When he starts June 7, Bodson… Read more »
The on-again, off-again interest is starting to sound like a ‘bad romance’. But Sony (NYSE: SNE) Music may be rekindling its interest in EM… Read more »
The album’s not dead yet – well, not in Pink Floyd’s case at least. A judge has ruled in favour of the prog rock band, which went to the UK… Read more »
In another bit of EMI news, less vital to the company’s future than today’s latest change at the top, OK Go and Capitol Records have parted… Read more »
In 2008, Terra Firma hired the guy who ran the company which makes Cillit Bang and Air Wick to turn EMI Music around. But now the record lab… Read more »
Litigious EMI may have avoided a court showdown with yet another digital music startup (it’s settled a case over lyrics data with TuneWiki),… Read more »
– Kevin Anderson: Guardian.co.uk’s blogs editor, who has been working on pre-election online planning lately and previous worked on the BBC… Read more »
By Julia Finch. EMI, the music group behind artists ranging from Pink Floyd to Katy Perry and country and western band Lady Antebellum, cras… Read more »
Beleaguered private equity group Terra Firma is now trying to raise an additional $160 million to keep EMI afloat, according to numerous rep… Read more »
What is a lip-sync worth? According to a lawsuit filed by Capitol Records (EMI), millions in copyright violations, at least as far as Vime… Read more »
EMI is buying Loudclothing.com, a Leicester, England-based retailer of band t-shirts and other accessories, as it looks to broaden the range… Read more »
The glitzy opening at a trendy club in Tribeca — followed by a crashing site when millions of would-be music video viewers tried to sign on… Read more »
