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 approved the deal two weeks ago.

eMusic, the online music “club” that offers members discounts on tracks in exchange for a monthly subscription fee, has struck a deal with a fourth major music label to add tracks to its catalogue. eMusic says its members can now access more than 15,000 albums from EMI.

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 part-shareholder Access Industries, the diversified group owned by Russian-American industrialist Len Blavatnik, whose offer of $3.3 billion in cash (at $8.25 per share, a 34.4 percent…

		EPS*	Rev. vs Q110	Net Inc. vs Q110
Warner Music Group	Release		2%	47.1%

* vs. Analysts' Estimates: Beat Met Missed

The winning bidder for Warner Music Group (NYSE: WMG) (WMG) is part-shareholder Access Industries, the diversified group owned by Russian-American industrialist Len Blavatnik, whose offer of $3.3 billion in cash (at $8.25 per share, a 34.4 percent premium over WMG’s average half-year price of $6.14) has been approved by WMG…

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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 inevitable shrinking of physical CD sales. And although digital’s share of revenues grew—in part because CD sales are less and less a part of the mix—the revenue…

		EPS*	Rev. vs Q409	Net Inc. vs Q409
Warner Music Group	Release		14%	12.5%

* vs. Analysts' Estimates: Beat Met Missed

Some of the stories people are talking about this morning:»  With even digital music sales flagging these days, it’s hardly surprising that Warner Music Group (NYSE: WMG), one of the four major record labels, has hired Goldman Sachs to search for possible buyers for the company. However, it is surprising…

eMusic launched its new website today, which includes 250,000 new songs from Universal, new hits from Sony (NYSE: SNE) Music and Warner Music—and higher prices for its newer tracks.

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 Bronfman Jr said WMG has signed a new deal with the unlimited-music service - but it’s only a renewed deal, covering Spotify’s existing European markets.

Warner Bros. (NYSE: TWX) has hired mobile gaming veteran Greg Ballard to lead its digital games business, as the company continues to double-down on the effort. Ballard is joining Warner Bros. only four months after he was hired by mobile video ad network Transpera as CEO; he had previously spent…

»  Credit MTV’s ad-sales partnership with Warner Music Group (NYSE: WMG) at the end of June, but the Viacom (NYSE: VIA) property became the web’s most-visited music destination, surpassing rival Vevo, according to the latest comScore (NSDQ: SCOR) Media Metrix figures. [WSJ] »  Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Voice may be returning…

Vevo and MTV Networks (NYSE: VIA) are having difficulty coming to an agreement over whether Vevo can sell advertising around the Viacom network’s online music player, according to interviews with sources in both camps. As a result, UMG, one of the founding partners of Vevo, has pulled its artists’ videos…

He may still be declining specific comment on yet-to-be-announced future services, but Warner Music Group (NYSE: WMG) CEO Edgar Bronfman Jr. has gone further than ever to confirm reports Google (NSDQ: GOOG) will launch a mobile music offering. Asked by analysts specifically about the recent Google Music rumors, Bronfman Jr.…

Digital income is now only creeping up at Warner Music Group. For its Q3 ending June 30, group digital revenue grew only two percent since last year, to $179 million, and is a tenth down on the preceding three months.

		EPS*	Rev. vs Q210	Net Inc. vs Q210
WMG	Release		16%	48%

* vs. Analysts' Estimates: Beat Met Missed

Warner Music Group (NYSE: WMG) has struck a “multi-year” ad sales and digital content partnership with MTV Networks (NYSE: VIA) that revolves around music videos. It’s hard not to see this announcement within the context of WMG still being a holdout when it comes to offering its artists’ videos on…

As part of Warner Music Group (NYSE: WMG) CEO Edgar Bronfman Jr.‘s efforts to expand its mobile reach beyond iTunes, the company is partnering with iPhone and iPod touch gamer Tapulous to promote and sell its artists’ songs. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. The agreement follows a similar deal…

Last quarter, Warner Music Group (NYSE: WMG) CEO Edgar Bronfman Jr scolded Apple for introducing variable track pricing too late and eagerly predicted a new wave of subscription digital music services “dwarving” the iTunes Store on which labels depend so much. This quarter, he’s full of praise for Cupertino, ahead…

Some encouragement at Warner Music Group (NYSE: WMG), as digital sales have now hit 30.1 percent of total income - but this may also be contributing to an overall sales dip... In WMG’s January-to-March Q2, at constant currencies, digital revenue grew strongly by 11.8 percent from last year‘s period, to…

		EPS*	Rev. vs Q110	Net Inc. vs Q110
WMG	Release	N/A	1%	N/A

* vs. Analysts' Estimates: Beat Met Missed

This surely isn’t the four weeks of Advent, but nevermind, at least Blockbuster (NYSE: BBI) gets some breathing space it desperately needs. It has a new windowing deal with Warner Bros. (NYSE: TWX) where DVDs and Blu-rays will be available to the customers four weeks before they get released on…