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Let’s get physical: in music, bits take on appearance of atoms
Though plastic sales may be waning, value may remain in ascribing physical characteristics to virtual content. But do "digital album signing" and "second-hand MP3s" add up to real innovation?…
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The debate over whether artists get enough money from streaming played out in public last week when EMI and Spotify executives failed to win……
Read More$1.29 Can’t Buy Me Love, but it will get me the ringtone
Apple and EMI announced that the iTunes store is exclusively selling ringtones from The Beatles for $1.29 each. The 30-second tones are from the The Beatles no. 1 hits album called 1, which represent the 27 top Beatles tunes in the U.S. and UK.…
Read MoreRhapsody Now Has One Million Music Subs In The U.S. Next Stop: Europe
It's taken ten years, and a last leg up by way of an acquisition of a competitor, but Rhapsody says that it has finally reached one million……
Read MoreCall Of Duty Maker Booms As Vivendi Sells A Stake To Buy EMI
When Vivendi (EPA: VIV) announced it was buying EMI's recorded music division last week, it cryptically said the deal would see it sell "500……
Read MoreReport: Google To Put A Piece Into Its Music Puzzle With Universal Deal
On the heels of news last week that it has secured EMI's recorded music division for nearly $2 billion, Universal Music is again in the news……
Read MoreEMI Group Split Between UMG And Sony
Four years after the whole label sold to Terra Firma for £4.2 ($6.69) billion, now one half of EMI Group - the record music division, EMI M……
Read MoreOpenEMI, An Innovation Files Case Study
Following on from Part 1 of the 'Innovation Files' series, this post looks at EMI's OpenEMI initiative and how it could drive transformation……
Read MoreMP3tunes Wins Copyright Case Against EMI, For The Most Part
A major battle over cloud-music services has been resolved, and on balance, it looks like a pretty solid win for the small music-locker serv……
Read MoreAccess Industries Closes $3.3 Billion Purchase Of Warner Music Group
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 MoreEMI Is Up For Sale Again
After the sale to Terra Firma, the ensuring disaster, the salvage by Citigroup and the refinancing, could the next chapter for EMI be... ano……
Read MoreCloudy With A Chance Of Apple: How An iTunes Cloud Service Might Look
Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has yet to make any public announcements on cloud-based music services, but some more details have emerged that seem to i……
Read MoreMobile Lowdown 5-20-11: More Apple Cloud; NFC UK; iPhone China; WP7 Verizon
Our look at some of the big stories in mobile today: Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) files patents that point to a cloud service; two UK operators launch……
Read MoreEMusic Reaches A Deal With EMI
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 MoreMobile Lowdown 5-19-11: Apple Cloud, EMI; VZW Sues FCC; Latest Gartner Figs
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 MoreEMI Takes Charge Of Its Digital Music Licensing
EMI Music Publishing is pulling in-house from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) how some of its songs are li……
Read MoreUpset YouTube Users Strike Back at Music Biz
Two German music fans were fed up with geo-blocking on YouTube, which has been preventing them from accessing music videos from major-label artists. So they turned the tables and started to block employees of major music labels from accessing popular blogs and other websites.…
Read MoreMobile Lowdown: Apple’s Cloud; Motorola And HTML5 Gaming; Twitter; Samsung
Our rundown of mobile news to start your day. Today we look at the newest reports around Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and cloud services; Motorola's n……
Read MoreMobile Music: A $5.5 Billion Opportunity For More Than Just Apple
New forecasts out today for the mobile music market from Juniper Research: it will bring in revenues of $5.5 billion by 2015, compared to $3……
Read MoreRadiohead’s Latest Asking Price Learns From Its Last Digital Experiment
Radiohead's last album, In Rainbows, was a little misunderstood in so far as, following its initial online-only release on a pay-what-you-li……
Read MoreEMI Lets DJ Site Beatport Sell Its Music
EMI Music is finally licensing Beatport, a specialist online retailer of electronica music, in a deal that will satisfy many electronic musi……
Read MoreWill the Music Industry Ever Learn From Its Mistakes?
It was home to the Rolling Stones and the Beatles, but EMI is on the block again after a takeover by Citigroup. It's the final proof that the sprawling record label is dangerously outmoded — but there's little suggestion the industry can really learn from its mistakes.…
Read MoreCitigroup Buys And Refinances EMI, Digs In For Future
EMI Group's holding company Maltby Investments Ltd, after defaulting on its loans, has called in PwC as administrators, who have in turn sol……
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