Hands Reaffirms EMI Reductions; Citigroup Debt Still Sticky
Terra Firma chief executive Guy Hands reaffirmed his restructuring plan for EMI Group in a recent note to partners. The address, which trav… Read more »
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Music Locker MP3tunes Pleads For Users To Bankroll EMI Copyright Defence
MP3tunes CEO Michael Robertson is resorting to desperate tactics in his defense against music copyright charges brought by EMI. The digital… Read more »
Record Label Chrysalis Rejects Takeover Offers, Citing Credit Crisis
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Music publishing company Chrysalis has ended takeover talks with prospective buyers, which included EMI and Warner Chappell, the music publi… Read more »
Interview: Douglas Merrill, President, EMI Digital Business: ‘We Need To Question Everything’
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Industry Moves: EMI Appoints Google VP As New Digital President
By Rafat Ali
Another high profile Google (NSDQ: GOOG) departure: VP of Engineering Douglas Merrill has left the online giant and joined the embattled mus… Read more »
Weekend Papers: Indie Owner; Tiscali Nears Sale; EMI’s Levy Goes TV
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EMI Looks To Go All-You-Can-Eat, Join Nokia ‘Comes With Music’
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) looks set to gain EMI’s repertoire to add to the Universal catalogue that will be part of its upcoming Comes With Music pr… Read more »
Free Music Streaming: We7 Signs on SonyBMG; 24-7 Signs on EMI
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Oxford-based We7, which offers music tracks for free with ads tacked on the front, has signed its first major label deal with SonyBMG, which… Read more »
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Thumbplay Partners With Sony BMG For Mobile Content
By Tricia Duryee
New York-based Thumbplay said it now has distribution agreements with three of the top four record labels with today’s addition of Sony (NYS… Read more »
News Corp. Working On Music ‘Hulu’ For MySpace
paidContent has learned that News Corp (NYSE: NWS). is pursuing a music joint venture for MySpace — similar to Hulu, its video joint ventur… Read more »
@ MWC: EMI To Sell DRM-Free Mobile Music Through Jamba
EMI has licensed Jamba to provide what the News Corp (NYSE: NWS). and Verisign-owned mobile entertainment outfit says is the label’s first D… Read more »
NY Daily News, EMI To Offer Free Downloads To Readers
The New York Daily News and EMI have cooked up a promo for this Sunday (Super Bowl) and Feb. 10 (Grammys): three free downloads for readers… Read more »
Mobile Content Bits: EMI On SendMe; Rok In Turkey; Weather Channel
By James Quintana Pearce
– EMI, SendMe Sign Deal: Mobile media company SendMe has signed a deal with EMI Music, which will see SendMe offering EMI’s full catalog of… Read more »
EMI Troubles Continue: Digital Head Wragg Leaves
By Rafat Ali
Updated below: EMI announced its restructuring and layoffs earlier today, but an un-noticed move on the digital side, till now: Barney Wragg… Read more »
EMI Confirms Up To 2,000 Job Losses In Restructuring
By Dianne See Morrison
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EMI Restructuring: 2,000 Jobs May Be Cut; Dropped Artists; $391M Raise: Reports
By Joseph Weisenthal
Terra Firma’s much-anticipated restructuring of EMI will result in major job cuts and a fresh equity investment, according to reports on the… Read more »
EMI Restructuring: Job Cuts May Hit 2,000; Dropped Artists; £200m Raise: Reports
By Joseph Weisenthal
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Preview Of Guy Hands' EMI Strategy; Rescue Plan Gives Artists Better Digital Deal: Report
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EMI Rescue Plan Gives Artists Better Digital Deal: Report
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Sony BMG Joining Amazon Music Store; Final Major To Try DRM-Free: Report
Sony (NYSE: SNE) BMG will join EMI, Vivendi’s (EPA: VIV) Universal Music Group and Warner Music Group (NYSE: WMG) in selling music through A… Read more »
Radiohead Got 'Absolutely Zero' From EMI Digital, 'Done Really Well' Online-Only
With In Rainbows’ digital-only running having ended and some time having elapsed since Radiohead’s departure from EMI’s Parlophone, Thom Yor… Read more »
Warner Signs On With Amazon's DRM-Free MP3 Download Store
Effective today, Warner Music Group (NYSE: WMG) follows Universal Music Group and EMI to the DRM-free Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) MP3 store. For War… Read more »
Capital Scarce For Major Labels; EMI Looks To Cut Funds to Industry Groups
By Joseph Weisenthal
Planned debt offerings from EMI and Warner Music Group (NYSE: WMG) will have to wait. FT reports that the companies had been looking to rais… Read more »
Beatles Downloads 'Happening Soon' In 2008 – Paul McCartney Says So
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EMI Turnaround Plan: £337 Million More From Online/Mobile By 2012
Terra Firma’s plans for turning EMI around supposedly include cutting $58 million (£29 million) off A&R and marketing budgets “by using soc… Read more »
EMI Sues MP3Tunes/Sideload On Copyright; Reckoned To Be 'Retaliatory'
The new broom sweeping clean at EMI also wants to clear up the small matter of online music storage. Labels owned by the group on Friday fil… Read more »
Sony Ericsson Plans For Mobile Music Store In Q208; Signs 4 Major Labels
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*Sony Ericsson* has announced plans to launch a mobile (and online) music store in the second quarter of 2008 in a bid to counter moves by N… Read more »
Content Bits: Joost/Meebo Chat, O2 Czech IPTV, Newspapers RSS
- Joost: The P2P PC TV platform has done a deal with web-based IM chat service Meebo to offer its instant messaging facilities through the a… Read more »
Industry Moves: EMI Adds Two To Investor Board, Gets Bigger In Japan
“Change is good” seems to be the ongoing mantra at EMI, which is hiring former BAA CEO (yes, an airports boss) and music producer Billy Mann… Read more »
EMI Sells Cliff Richard Album On Viral Sliding Price Model
If you thought pricing innovation in downloadable music was practised only by artists you wouldn’t be embarrassed to listen to (Radiohead th… Read more »
Industry Moves: EMI Appoints Consumer Champion To Work With Digital Director
Terra Firma’s changing of the EMI guard continues as it brings on ex Virgin Money CEO Mark Hodgkinson as consumer development director. In t… Read more »
Hands On Management: EMI Boss Tells Staff To Wake Up And Smell The Coffee
By Ingrid Lunden
Sometimes it takes an outsider to call a spade a spade: Guy Hands, the new owner of EMI after the label was bought by his private equity hou… Read more »
Radiohead Asks Buyers To Name Price For Download-Only Album Release
Here’s a pricing model you might call the online equivalent of busking – Radiohead, without a label after their EMI/Capitol contract expired… Read more »
Apple, Record Labels Each Deny Culpability For EC Price Differentials
Update: Steve Jobs said at the iPhone Germany launch: “We think prices should be the same. We think anybody in Europe should buy off any sto… Read more »
EMI Promises To Invest in EMI; Keeping It Intact
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Private equity group Terra Firma, which bought music label EMI (EMI.L) will keep the company intact and not sell its recorded music division… Read more »
EMI Launches Social Networking Site ScoutR
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Not to be outdone by social networking sites that have effectively taken the role of labels by promoting and distributing music for emerging… Read more »
Industry Moves: EMI Adds Birt, NME.com Editor
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EMI Adds Ringo Starr To McCartney Downloads; DRM-Free Swells Sales
Updated below:-
Last month, EMI made Paul McCartney’s back-catalog available to digital music retailers; next up it’s Ringo Starr. EMI will… Read more »
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