Posts Tagged ‘Sony Music Entertainment’
Monday, June 7th, 2010
After wriggling out of its EMI Music contract, OK Go is now structuring its own label and distribution arrangements. The new label is dubbed Paracadute Records, and was actually announced in March by the band. But that label is now getting distribution through RED, owned by Sony Music Entertainment.<!–more–>
So what next? EMI Music holds the rights to the older catalog, though the latest EMI release – Of the Blue Colour of the Sky – is now getting a fresh re-release under Paracadute/RED in July.
Tags: EMI, OK Go, Sony Music Entertainment
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Tuesday, May 11th, 2010
The on-again, off-again interest is starting to sound like a ‘bad romance’. But Sony Music may be rekindling its interest in EMI, according to comments coming out of Germany. “We are in a position that allows us to seize every opportunity in the market – including EMI,” Sony Music chief Rolf Schmidt-Holz told German paper Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, in translated remarks. (more…)
Tags: EMI, Sony Music Entertainment, Warner Music Group
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Wednesday, April 21st, 2010
A&E Television Networks, LLC (AETN), the global media content company owned by Disney-ABC Television Group, Hearst Corporation and NBC Universal, announced a unique creative collaboration with Extreme Music, the worldwide production music unit of Sony/ATV Music Publishing resulting in Scoreganics Production Music, a new production music library. The announcement was made jointly by Russell Emanuel and Dolph Taylor, co-CEOs of Extreme Music, and Doug Jacobs, SVP and General Counsel of AETN. (more…)
Tags: A&E, Disney-ABC, Marketing, NBC Universal, Sony Music Entertainment
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Wednesday, April 21st, 2010
British composer Hélène Muddiman is the first woman to be nominated for an Ivor Novello award for film score this century. (more…)
Tags: Award, EMI, Hélène Muddiman, Ivor Novello Award, Sony Music Entertainment
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Monday, April 12th, 2010
Sony Music is ramping up its sync activities after hiring veteran music supervisor Ian Neil for the newly-created role of director of music for film, TV, advertising and computer games. (more…)
Tags: Ian Neil, Sony Music Entertainment
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Wednesday, March 31st, 2010
Major labels have been downsizing for years, though huge layoffs are rarely part of the process. Instead of shuttering entire offices, dissolving sub-labels or pink-slipping thousands, the preferred path is a gradual pare-down of the ranks. (more…)
Tags: Music Industry, Sony Music Entertainment
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Monday, March 29th, 2010
EMI Music has been trumpeting improved market share figures in 2010, thanks largely to a successful Lady Antebellum release. That is now supported by stats from both Hits Magazine and Nielsen Soundscan, both of whom are showing the improved percentages. Hits is showing an 11.8 percent year-to-date share for EMI (up from 8.7 percent at the same point in 2009); and Nielsen 11.74 percent year-to-date (up from 8.77 percent). (more…)
Tags: EMI, Lady Antebellum, Sony Music Entertainment, Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group
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Tuesday, March 16th, 2010
Tupac seemed to release more albums after his death than during his life. Now, Michael Jackson is about to do the same. (more…)
Tags: Business, Michael Jackson, Sony Music Entertainment
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Thursday, March 11th, 2010
London - Welsh singer-songwriter and television host Charlotte Church has signed a $3 million deal with investment fund Power Amp Music to finance the recording of a new album, the Financial Times reported. (more…)
Tags: Album, Arts and Entertainment, Charlotte Church, Music, Record label, Sony Music Entertainment
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Thursday, November 19th, 2009
Vevo now has a launch date. According to a tweet from executives at the joint venture, the unveiling happens December 8th, inline with earlier calls for a late-year launch. “Vevo is launching the night of Tues., Dec. 8th,” the tweet confirmed. (more…)
Tags: Advertising, Music, Music video, Sony Music Entertainment, Universal Music Group, Vevo, YouTube
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