Bands Led By Youngbloods Ding Sony For $8M In iTunes Royalties
Sony’s music labels have agreed to pay almost $8 million to bands like Allman Brothers and Cheap Trick which claim the company shortchanged…
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Michael Jackson lives on through crowdsourced music video
What do you do when you release a single from a posthumous album? To promote the new release “Behind the Mask,” Sony Music and Radical Media turned to Michael Jackson’s fans — literally — for an epic crowdsourced music video featuring contributions from 103 countries.
Michael Jackson’s Posthumous Album Is Coming to iTunes
A storm sprang up this week around reports that, due to disagreements between Apple (s aapl) and Sony BMG (s sne), the…
Interview: RCA/Jive’s Sean Rosenberg: Labels Are The Scapegoat For Mobile Music’s Woes
So why are mobile music — and digital music startups overall, for that matter — having such a hard time turning hype into real revenues? T…
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Earnings: Sony Down On Falling Gadget Sales, High Yen
Sony (NYSE: SNE) has announced a loss for the third consecutive quarter, two months after posting its first full-year loss in 14 years. The…
WMG, Sony And Others Sell Their Russian Online Music Distributor To Ru-Net II
Russian digital investment company ru-Net II has bought online music and film distribution platform Digital Access from joint owners includi…
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Sony Music Re-Ups With YouTube; First Major Label In Second Wave
As expected, Sony (NYSE: SNE) Music Entertainment is the first major label to re-sign with YouTube, AllThingsD reported tonight and I can co…
Could Sony Music be First Major To Re-Up With YouTube?
A couple of nuggets from Greg Sandoval’s look at the realities of Sony (NYSE: SNE) Music Entertainment, post-BMG buyout, and what he calls t…
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Mobile Content Bits: Verizon Adds Video; Sony Uses Kyte; Flurry Analytics; AT&T On Facebook; Abphone
— Verizon (NYSE: VZ) adds content to V Cast: Verizon Wireless said today that it is adding a host of content to its V Cast Video, including…
Microsoft Launching Mobile Music Downloads In UK, Tracks Are DRM-Protected
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) has launched a UK mobile music download platform offering more than one million tracks and 10,000 videos from Sony (N…
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Digital Music Roundup: Project Playlist/Sony BMG; Music Games Boost Artists’ Sales, Not Labels’
— Project Playlist seals deal with *Sony* BMG: So what can you do with a double-digit round of funding? You can use some of it to pay reco…
Dada Entertainment Targets Impulse Buyers With Transactional Ad Banners
Dada Entertainment, the joint venture between Italian content provider Dada and record label Sony (NYSE: SNE) BMG, has launched what they
Play.com Steps Up Music Download Battle With 3 Million DRM-free Tracks From All Four Majors
Play.com has signed up with all four major music labels to offer more than 3 million DRM-free tracks on its PlayDigital music download site,…
Sony Has It All Now: Acquisition Of Bertelsmann’s 50 Percent Stake In Sony BMG Done, BMG Dropped
The second-largest record company in the world is now all Sony
Sony Has It All Now: Acquisition Of Bertelsmann’s 50 Percent Stake In Sony BMG Done, BMG Dropped
The second-largest record company in the world is now all Sony
EC, US Approve Sony-BMG, Reed-ChoicePoint Takeovers
The European Commission has cleared Sony’s (NYSE: SNE) acquisition of BMG’s 50 percent stake in their Sony-BMG JV, creating Sony Music Enter…
O2 UK Launches ‘Artist-Led’ Music Store With SonyBMG
On the heels of Vodafone’s new music store yesterday, O2 is itself doing a new music play of its own, and with SonyBMG the only label on boa…
Sony Buys Bertelsmann’s 50 Percent Stake In Sony BMG For $1.2 Billion
As expected, Sony Corp (NYSE: SNE). and Bertelsmann AG have reached an agreement that has Sony buying Bertelsmann’s 50 percent stake in Sony…
Sony Buys Bertelsmann’s 50 Percent Stake In Sony BMG For $1.2 Billion
As expected, Sony Corp (NYSE: SNE). and Bertelsmann AG have reached an agreement that has Sony buying Bertelsmann’s 50 percent stake in Sony…
Earnings: SonyBMG Posts Loss On Falling Sales, Higher Costs
SonyBMG swung to a big $49 million (£24 million) loss for the three months to June’s end, thanks to “continued decline in the physical musi…
Earnings: Sony’s Games Unit In Profits; Sony BMG Sales Decline 6 Percent
Sony (NYSE: SNE) reported its Q208 earnings this morning, and the picture isn’t that pretty: it posted a 39 percent fall in quarterly operat…
Industry Moves: SonyBMG Adds Digi EVP, BBC Archive Director
— SonyBMG: Another SonyBMG senior digital appointment, and another from the mobile space, right on the heels of ex-Vodafoner Graeme Ferguso…
Industry Moves: SonyBMG UK Adds Picsel’s Ferguson As Digital SVP
Another music label staffing up digitally at the top, this time with a mobile track record. SonyBMG UK is hiring mobile media software maker…
Industry Moves: SonyBMG Adds Picsel’s Ferguson As Digital SVP
Another music label staffing up digitally at the top, this time with a mobile track record. SonyBMG UK is hiring mobile media software maker…
Music Bits: SonyBMG/UMG MP3, Virgin Stalling, Fatboy Slim
— SonyBMG/UMG MP3: Digital music retailer 7digital will be taking DRM-free MP3 repertoire from SonyBMG and Universal “imminently”, we can r…
BMG Could Retain Some Euro Assets in SonyBMG Sale; Could Sell For Around $1 Billion
In the permutations being worked out for the sale of BMG part of music label SonyBMG, Bertelsmann is looking to retain a stake in the Europe…
BMG Could Retain Some Euro Assets in SonyBMG Sale; Could Sell For Around $1 Billion
In the permutations being worked out for the sale of BMG part of music label SonyBMG, Bertelsmann is looking to retain a stake in the Europe…
Bertelsmann Wants $1.5 Billion For Sony BMG Stake, Talks ‘Advanced’: Report
Finally, some meat on the bone of the “Bertelsmann wants to quit music” story. An unnamed source tells FT Deutschland the German media group…
Mobile Content Bits: Sony Ericsson And Usher; m.friendster.com; Sprint’s Instinct; ShoZu’s NowPublic
— Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) said today that it will be partnering with Grammy Award-winning artist Usher and AT&T (NYSE: T) to…
Sony BMG Offers DRM-Free MP3s Via Dada
Dada Entertainment and Sony BMG have signed a deal to make full-length DRM-free MP3s available to Dada’s subscribers. The service charges $9…
Sony BMG Offers DRM-Free MP3s Via Dada
Dada Entertainment and Sony BMG have signed a deal which will see full-length DRM-free MP3s made available to Dada’s subscribers. The servic…
Sony BMG Joins Nokia’s Comes With Music Programme
Sony (NYSE: SNE) BMG is the second record label to join Nokia’s (NYSE: NOK) Comes With Music pre-bundled music initiative. At a London joint…
Bundling And Marketing Ringbacks Increases Sales
Are ringbacks just not marketed properly? According to a slew of analysts ringbacks are poised to pick up the slack in the declining rington…
SonyBMG Planning Subscription Music Store
SonyBMG is planning a subscription-based music download offering with a flat-rate monthly payment. CEO Rolf Schmidt-Holtz gave some extra de…
Sony BMG CEO Says Company Plans Subscription Music Service
Look at us, we’re planning one too… Sony (NYSE: SNE) BMG wants to get into the subscription music game. CEO Rolf Schmidt-Holtz told German…
Free Music Streaming: We7 Signs on SonyBMG; 24-7 Signs on EMI
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…
@ Digital Music Forum: Keynote Interview, Thomas Hesse, Digital Pres. SonyBMG; Physical Not Dead
The common theme through today’s Digital Music Forum East: physical music is for all intents and purposes dead, or if it’s not dead, its onl…
@ MidemNet: Sony BMG Sees '09 Digital Tipping Point; Backs Unlimited Music-As-Service
Sony (NYSE: SNE) BMG reckons its digital music revenue will first meet that of its physical sales next year. “It’s rapidly going to 50 perc…
Amazon Confirms Sony BMG To Sell MP3s; Amazon First To Get The Big Four
It’s official… Sony (NYSE: SNE) BMG will begin selling DRM-free tracks through *Amazon*’s music store by the end of the month, confirming…
Sony BMG Confirms DRM-Free Debut – At Bricks-And-Mortar Stores
Sony (NYSE: SNE) BMG has confirmed previous reports it will become the last of the major labels to offer DRM-free music. It’s a pretty tenta…
Sony BMG Joining Amazon's US Music Store; Final Major To Try DRM-Free: Report
Sony (NYSE: SNE) BMG, the joint venture between Sony and German media group Bertelsmann, will join EMI, Vivendi’s (EPA: VIV) Universal Music…
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…
SonyBMG Merger Likely To Win EC Approval Again – Report
The European Commission is likely to give a final, final approval to the merger of Sony Music Entertainment and BMG Entertainment, which is…
Sony BMG Forms JV U.S. Company With Dada For Mobile Entertainment
Interesting tie-up, though surprised why SonyBMG would go this route: it has tied up with Italian mobile content firm Dada to form a joint v…
@ Mobile Music Now: Oldies But Goodies
Just came out of an evening mini-conference on mobile music here in London, called Mobile Music Now! (Readers: the exclamation point is part…
Vodafone U.K. Trials New D2C Service, Uses “Text Trigger” To Cut Data Charge
Vodafone U.K. will trial a new off-portal service that gives users access to Sony BMG music tracks via a “text trigger.” Put simply, the ser…
@ Mobile Content World: Gavin Parry Sony BMG, On Mobile Music Opportunities
Gavin Parry, general manager of sales and digital at Sony BMG, gave a talk on music and communities at the Mobile Content World Australasia…
MobiTV And Sony BMG Team For Artist Sites
Sony BMG Music Entertainment has signed a deal with MobiTV to create a series of ad-sponsored customized channels featuring original video p…
Sony BMG Signs Music & Video Licensing Agreement, Sharpens Focus On China
Sony BMG Music Entertainment has sealed a deal with Global Music International a content aggregator active in the Chinese market, to deliver…
Sony BMG Bullish On Mobile Music
A couple of interesting points about digital music as part of Sony BMG’s business…it’s currently around 20% but “that percentage should ri…
Motorola To “Leak” Albums On iRadio
J/Arista Records has signed a deal with Motorola that will see whole albums appear on Motorola’s iRadio service before they are released. J…
Lawsuit Over Ringtone Royalties
The other half of the music battle…an ongoing lawsuit between some musicians and Sony over the amount of royalties they receive has been e…
O2 to Premiere OutKast’s New Single in UK
More in the continuing trend of uning operators as
@ CTIA: The New New Media Panel
Music and entertainment are central to peoples lives, so it will be essential to mobile — Michael Nash, Warner Music
The New Media panel ha…
@ Contenido Movil: Dealing With The Music Gatekeepers
We just want to do business. We are signing as many deals as possible. — Jorge Mejia, Director New Business Sony/ATV, USA
With someone from…
@ Contenido Movil: Mobile Music In LatAm
The first talk at Contenido Movil was about mobile music in Latin America, and was focused on ringtones (as the most widely distributed form…
