The music industry will soon reach that fabled tipping point at which digital revenue exceeds lost physical sales, Warner Music Group (NYSE:… Read More »
Access Industries Closes $3.3 Billion Purchase Of Warner Music Group
By David Kaplan
Jul. 20, 2011, 10:02pm
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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 »
EMusic Reaches A Deal With EMI
By Joseph Tartakoff
May. 20, 2011, 1:00am
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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 »
Mobile Lowdown 5-19-11: Apple Cloud, EMI; VZW Sues FCC; Latest Gartner Figs
By Ingrid Lunden
May. 19, 2011, 3:24pm
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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 »
As WMG Prepares For Handover, Digital Now More Than 30 Percent Of All Sales
By David Kaplan
May. 10, 2011, 6:35pm
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Warner Music Group’s losses widened and revenues were up slightly in Q1, the company’s next to last quarter before it gets taken over by par… Read More »
The winning bidder for Warner Music Group (NYSE: WMG) (WMG) is part-shareholder Access Industries, the diversified group owned by Russian-Am… Read More »
The Morning Lowdown 04-14-11
By David Kaplan
Apr. 14, 2011, 5:10pm
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» Arianna Huffington has some things to say about that class action lawsuit over unpaid blogging. (HuffPo; read paidContent’s cov… Read More »
WMG Digital Revs Rose Weakly Amid Wider CD Sales Declines
By David Kaplan
Feb. 8, 2011, 7:46pm
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Warner Music Group (NYSE: WMG) didn’t get much of a boost from the all-too-important holiday season last quarter. There were, of course, the… Read More »
The Morning Lowdown 01-21-11
By David Kaplan
Jan. 21, 2011, 5:30pm
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» 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 »
eMusic launched its new website today, which includes 250,000 new songs from Universal, new hits from Sony (NYSE: SNE) Music and Warner Musi… Read More »
If analysts on Warner Music Group’s Q4 earnings call were hoping for news of a Spotify deal, they got exactly what they wanted. Edgar Bronfm… Read More »
More Must Reads
By Joseph Tartakoff
Oct. 5, 2010, 4:20am
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Warner Bros. (NYSE: TWX) has hired mobile gaming veteran Greg Ballard to lead its digital games business, as the company continues to double… Read More »
By David Kaplan
Sep. 10, 2010, 4:30pm
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» Credit MTV’s ad-sales partnership with Warner Music Group (NYSE: WMG) at the end of June, but the Viacom (NYSE: VIA) property b… Read More »
– Verizon Wireless: Andrew Davies has been named Verizon’s new VP and CFO, effective November 15. He joined Vodafone in 2003, having most r… Read More »
By David Kaplan
Aug. 7, 2010, 2:48am
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Vevo and MTV Networks (NYSE: VIA) are having difficulty coming to an agreement over whether Vevo can sell advertising around the Viacom netw… Read More »
He may still be declining specific comment on yet-to-be-announced future services, but Warner Music Group (NYSE: WMG) CEO Edgar Bronfman Jr.… Read More »
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