Still Wanna Buy EMI? Sony Says Yes. WMG Avoids the Question…
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 [...]
A&E Television Networks and Extreme Music CREATE “Scoreganics Production Music”
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 [...]
Hélène Muddiman Nominated for Ivor Novello Award
British composer Hélène Muddiman is the first woman to be nominated for an Ivor Novello award for film score this century.
Sony secures services of veteran music supervisor
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.
The Drib-Drab of Major Label Layoffs…
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.
Q1 Market Share Figures Offer a Few Surprises…
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); [...]
A King-of-Pop’s Ransom: Jackson Estate Scores $250 Million Deal…
Tupac seemed to release more albums after his death than during his life. Now, Michael Jackson is about to do the same.
Charlotte Church Gets $3M From Power Amp to Finance Album
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.
Vevo. Arriving December 8th…
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.