Topic: EMI Group plc

Why Apple's Ping Stumble May Help Google Music

The oft-flawless company stumbled in Ping's launch, and the reasons why are representative of Apple's relationship with consumers, record labels, and Google.READ»

Playlist.com Files for Bankruptcy, Owes Millions to Major Record Labels

Popular online streaming service Playlist.com heads for bankruptcy after struggling with royalty payments.READ»

I Want My MTV, er, Vevo

Once the most popular vehicle for music promotion, MTV has just lost its access to the world's largest record label. Universal Music Group announced Friday that MTV.com will no longer be carrying its artists' music videos, a big ...READ»

Watch Out Spotify, iTunes Subscription Service Could Be Worth $1 billion

About 15% of U.S. iTunes users are willing to pay at least $10 per month for a music-subscription service, according to a new study by the NPD Group. The report, which concludes that between 7 million and 8 million users have a ...READ»

How Warner Music and Its Musicians Are Combating Declining Album Sales

Up-and-coming bands like Shinedown are helping Warner Music Group pull off the hardest trick in the music biz: redefining the record label for the digital age.READ»

• Keeping It on the Download

Julie Lee, SVP at Vevo

Before coming to Vevo, 10-year tech-industry vet Julie Lee spent time at Universal Music Group's successful eLabs division, where she devised partnership-development deals with Apple, Best Buy, and Walmart. Now, as SVP of Vevo's growth strategy, she's tasked with making the online music-video service the Hulu of the music industry.READ»

OK Go Ditches Label Over YouTube Embedding Rights

How many times does a band have to take the music video world by storm before its record label gets that its members might know a little something about music videos? We may never find out, because OK Go, the band in question, has ...READ»

Today in Most Innovative Companies

Daily news of note from our Most Innovative Companies, including Hulu, Warner Music Group, Google, and Microsoft.READ»

Dailymotion Latest Target in EMI's Shotgun Approach to Music Videos

EMI, long time YouTube-phobe, has just announced a new music video partnership with Dailymotion. It'll kick off in April, and means Dailymotion users on the desktop and in iPhone apps will get access to EMI's huge video library.The ...READ»

Big Record Labels Bailing on Spotify for U.S. Launch? No, Tweets Spotify [UPDATED]

Can Europe’s popular music service survive in the U.S. without the world's largest labels?READ»

Online TV Wars: The Hulu Music vs Comcast On Demand Edition

The battle for supremacy in web-based TV transmission is rapidly hotting up: Comcast has launched an on-demand web-streaming video service, just as its pseudo rival Hulu has signed a deal with Warner to bring more music vids to its service.READ»

Why Vevo's a Victory--Even If It's Not "Hulu for Music Videos"

Music-video megasite Vevo launched today (sort of, read on). And bloggers and users alike are breathlessly dubbing it "the Hulu for music videos." But here's the thing: It's not. I mean, sure, there are similarities. Both sites ...READ»

On Eve of Launch, Music-Saving Vevo Scores Another Partner

Vevo's gathering more strength, even before its official launch. The music video site, described by Vevo execs as "like MTV on steroids" and by others as the Hulu of music videos--announced this morning a partnership with music ...READ»

Hank Risan on BlueBeat's $20 Million Gamble...on 25-Cent Beatles Tracks?

Bluebeat founder Hank Risan says he sank $20 million into an effort to revolutionize digital music delivery. But he flushed it all the day he offered Beatles tracks for a quarter a pop, a judge has ruled. U.S. District Judge John ...READ»

Today's Vision of Tomorrow: Entertainment

To brighten up your dreary winter's morning, here's something to tickle the dreamer inside you: Exactly how might we be enjoying our digital entertainment in the future? Three news pieces today point to different TV-based ways to ...READ»

BlueBeat's Hank Risan: That's Not the Beatles, It's a "Virtual Cover Band"

If you thought that was AC/DC, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, and The Beatles you streamed for free or downloaded this week for $.25 from BlueBeat.com, it's an understandable error. The music sounded identical to songs by those artists. ...READ»

Beatles Label EMI Slaps Former Huffington Post Blogger, BlueBeat Owner With Federal Lawsuit

Get your Beatles downloads from BlueBeat.com while they're hot--as in stolen, according to a federal copyright infringement lawsuit filed against the site and its owner by EMI records, which distributes the Beatles music, in Los ...READ»

$3.7B in Digital Sales? That's Entertainment!

Shawn Baldwin from CMG discusses how private equity is investing in the media and entertainment industry.READ»

Record Labels Mix Up a Rival to Apple's "Cocktail"

Silly, music business. Will the record labels ever learn? There's news today that a group of record labels are busy working on their own next-generation digital album format to rival Apple's "Cocktail" system. It's doomed to ...READ»

Warner, 7digital Spread the Music

In a sign that the major labels are finally beginning to embrace digital music worldwide, U.K.-based digital music provider 7digital announced a pan-European licensing agreement with Warner Music to sell their MP3s, nearly completing ...READ»

The 10 Most Creative People in the Music Biz

1. DeAndre "Soulja Boy Tell'em" Way, rapper/producer The 18-year-old Web wunderkind took a crazy song and dance, and propelled it via YouTube and MySpace fame into an Interscope recording contract and platinum ...READ»

Survey Shows MP3 Pirates Also Buy the Most MP3s, So Why All the Fuss?

A survey conducted in Norway found that music consumers who regularly download illegally pirated music tracks are also the largest purchasers of legitimate digital music files, by a factor of 10 over non-pirates. So, you have to ...READ»

Four Convicted in Pirate Bay Trial

The music industry won a major victory against copyright infringement today with the conviction of the four men behind the Pirate Bay, a file-swapping service with over 20 million members. The men were sentenced in a Swedish court ...READ»

Beatles Discography Finally Gets Digital Remastering, Due 9/9/09

Some audiophiles would argue "let it be," but the Beatles' discography is finally being brought fully into the digital 21st Century: Apple Corps Ltd. and EMI Music have just announced that the completely re-mastered ...READ»

iFive: Apple's New iPhone and Chicago's Spire Are Rising and Google's Old Wonder Boy Is Falling in Today's Innovation News

While you slept, innovation brushed up his resume and begged Google CEO Eric Schmidt to let him come home. Here's today's top innovation news: Next-gen iPhone rumors abound. Video camera, faster Net, can act as a DVR remote. ...READ»