Terra Firma Takes Citigroup To Court Over EMI Deal
By Phillip Inman: The private equity owner of EMI is suing Citigroup for £1.5 billion after it accused the US investment bank of artificial… Read more »
Vevo Not Global Until 2010, Strains On First Day
Music labels’ YouTube-powered music video site Vevo may have had a glitzy launch in New York on Tuesday – but on Wednesday many who hit the… Read more »
Vevo Brings EMI Videos on Board; No Equity; Launch Tomorrow
Vevo, the music video JV site which is slated to launch tomorrow, has officially brought on the smallest major, EMI, though no equity is inv… Read more »
EMI Finds Music Sales Actually Growing, Despite Terra’s Troubles
Terra Firma may have written off 90 percent of its investment in the label after Citigroup refused to ignore about half the debt it provided… Read more »
Updated: Hulu in Limited Music Video Deal With EMI; How Long Before a Vevo Deal?
Updated below: Hulu is doing a limited music video deal with EMI, which could be interpreted as a sign of things to come: it is tying up wit… Read more »
Terra Firma Writes Down 90 Percent of Its EMI Investment, After Failing to Restructure Debt
Terra Firma’s really been brought down to earth, in more ways than one: after failing to restructure EMI’s debt, it has written down about 9… Read more »
BlueBeat’s Claim That It Owns The Beatles Falls On Deaf Ears
You’ve got to marvel at BlueBeat’s chutzpah. The music site that quickly attracted an EMI lawsuit this week for selling Beatles tracks for $… Read more »
EMI Suing $0.25-A-Track Beatles Site
When music site BlueBeat decided to offer The Beatles tracks for $0.25 each, as Staci wrote this week, it knew it would be controversial. Read more »
Beatles Go Digital, Chapter #271: Back Catalogue On An Apple-Shaped USB; EMI Suing Site
Of all the anticipation over the last couple of years, this was not the way we expected The Beatles archive to manifest digitally. Fans can… Read more »
After The Encore: EMI Will Sell Digital Concert Recordings At Shows
photo: kokalola
With recorded music sales still ebbing away, the only part of the industry that can truly make money from fans, conventional wisdom goes, is… Read more »
Beatles Eight Days A Week — Whether It’s Legal Or Not
BlueBeat Music has found one way to stand out among the plethora of music streaming and download sites: stream The Beatles’ catalog (origina… Read more »
Streaming Service Grooveshark Signs Licensing Deal With EMI
Streaming music service Grooveshark has signed a licensing agreement with EMI, six months after being sued by the music label, AllThingsD re… Read more »
@ Billboard: The Inside Scoop On EMI’s Stealthy New iPhone App
By this time next week, EMI Music will have launched a new iPhone app tied to the launch of one of its “major artists” — and it will be a b… Read more »
Industry Moves: FremantleMedia Europe CEO; Havas Media Planning Director; EMI Marketer; Wunderloop
– FremantleMedia Enterprises: The London-based prodco has plucked Mel Alcock from digital agency iCrossing to be its new CEO for EMEA. His… Read more »
Sitting On A Cornflake Waiting For The Van To Come
The lyrics from I am the Walrus make as much sense as anything else I’ve heard today about the Beatles and iTunes as 09-09-09 hysteria build… Read more »
Do The Beatles Have A Date With iTunes?
By Bobbie Johnson: The Beatles coming to iTunes is the New Year’s Eve of rumours: it comes out once a year and always end up disappointing y… Read more »
On The Edge Of Default: More Details On A Souring EMI …
Is EMI Music getting closer to the edge? That is the growing consensus, based on a souring loan situation. The latest to pile on is the Wall… Read more »
EMI Taps Amazon MP3 For Direct-To-Consumer Retail
photo: David Shankbone
We first reported the fourth-place major music label’s launch of its new EMI.com site back in December — an artist showcase, rather than a… Read more »
Industry Moves: Ondrejka Latest To Leave EMI Music
I just landed in New York to a burst of messages about the latest change at EMI on the digital side: Cory Ondrejka twittered late this after… Read more »
Report: Terra Firma Investors Approve EMI’s £300 Million Injection
Guy Hands has won backing for plans to re-finance EMI: investors in his Terra Firma private equity firm, which owns the major, have given th… Read more »
Apple, Labels Jamming On Ways To Boost Music Sales
“Don’t it always seem to go you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone.” … Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) didn’t pave paradise but it helped kill o… Read more »
EMI Staffs Up With Eight Digital Marketing Execs From Tesco, Google, BSkyB
Four months after he took over EMI’s digital marketing, former Second Life tech exec Cory Ondrejka is rebooting the label’s online strategy… Read more »
EMI Suing Another Music Startup; Grooveshark Plays Piracy Card
Another day, another major label legal challenge… Elio Leoni-Sceti’s EMI has filed a lawsuit against Florida-based music streaming site Gr… Read more »
UK Round-Up: BSkyB Makes VMtv Bid; Terra Firma’s EMI Cash Injection; Newspaper Readership Grows
–BSkyB–Virgin Media: BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) could be looking to bolster its digital TV portfolio by splashing out on seven channels from its cl… Read more »
Piracy Round-Up: Spanish P2P Case, French Legal Challenge, Pirate Bay Appeal
After their attempts to shut down The Pirate Bay in Sweden, Europe’s entertainment companies have a new target: Pablo Soto, a 30-year-old ma… Read more »
