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

BY Kit Eaton
Relevancy Score: 98
Tue Apr 7, 2009 at 11:01 AM

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»

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EMI's New Business Models: YouTube Viewing and DRM-free Music

BY Lynne d Johnson
Relevancy Score: 90
Thu May 31, 2007 at 4:58 PM

EMI is testing out new business models and attempting to improve its relationship with consumers at the same time. Recent partnerships with iTunes, Amazon, and YouTube could prove successful for the record label's brand as it cozies ...READ»

WORK/LIFE | Comment

Work/Life: Finally, A Use For The Internet

BY Tom Stern
Relevancy Score: 88
Mon Jun 11, 2007 at 7:32 AM

We are living in the age of everyone getting their fifteen minutes, and videos of a drunk guy trying on a variety of hats or shots of people’s household pets dozing off are probably getting more viewers than Ugly Betty ever will. ...READ»

BLUEBEAT | Comment

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

BY Tyler Gray
Relevancy Score: 80
Thu Nov 19, 2009 at 12:18 PM

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»

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Why the Music Industry Needs A Makeover

BY Lynne d Johnson
Relevancy Score: 80
Wed Mar 7, 2007 at 12:27 PM

A recent article in Crain's New York Business (subscription required), titled "Music Labels' New Leaders," explores the music industry's shift to hiring the hippest hitmakers to man the helm of many top -level positions in the ...READ»

BLUEBEAT | Comment

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

BY Tyler Gray
Relevancy Score: 78
Wed Nov 4, 2009 at 12:17 PM

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»

VEVO | Comment

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

BY Dan Macsai
Relevancy Score: 69
Wed Dec 9, 2009 at 10:53 AM

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»

BLUE BEAT | 1 comment

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

BY Tyler Gray
Relevancy Score: 66
Sat Nov 7, 2009 at 12:04 AM

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»

SHAWN BALDWIN | Comment

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

BY Shawn Baldwin
Relevancy Score: 66
Mon Oct 19, 2009 at 2:13 AM

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

VEVO | Comment

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

BY Kate Rockwood
Relevancy Score: 64
Mon Dec 7, 2009 at 10:50 AM

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»

MEDIA | 4 comments

Media: Can Google, Limewire Outplay iTunes?

BY Oscar Raymundo
Relevancy Score: 62
Tue Aug 21, 2007 at 5:07 PM

The digital music market continues to be an exemplary battleground for the implications new media has on pre-established business practices. Startup gBox and infamous Limewire are venturing into the digital music market to try to ...READ»

MEDIA | Comment

Media: imeem's Triple Play

BY April Joyner
Relevancy Score: 57
Tue Oct 30, 2007 at 6:38 PM

Social media network imeem recently announced its partnership with EMI Music, which means that EMI's catalog of music and video is available for streaming on the media sharing service. With this latest announcement, imeem now offers ...READ»

MP3 PIRATES | 5 comments

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

BY Kit Eaton
Relevancy Score: 56
Tue Apr 21, 2009 at 6:06 AM

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»

FUTURE VISION | Comment

Today's Vision of Tomorrow: Entertainment

BY Kit Eaton
Relevancy Score: 54
Wed Nov 18, 2009 at 8:09 AM

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»

SLURPEE | 3 comments

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

BY David Lidsky
Relevancy Score: 54
Tue Mar 24, 2009 at 12:17 AM

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»

NEWS + CURRENT EVENTS | 2 comments

The Sound of Freedom?

Relevancy Score: 50
Wed Sep 6, 2006 at 7:06 PM

Today’s deal by Bertelsmann to sell its big BMG music publishing unit to Vivendi seems, at first glance, like a victory for the little guys. After all, music giants such as Sony, Warner, and EMI all wanted to buy BMG -- and the ...READ»

PIRATE BAY | Comment

Four Convicted in Pirate Bay Trial

BY Chris Dannen
Relevancy Score: 40
Fri Apr 17, 2009 at 9:42 AM

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»

APPLE | Comment

SanDisk Proposes Memory Card Albums

BY Chris Dannen
Relevancy Score: 38
Tue Sep 23, 2008 at 9:37 AM

SanDisk [SNDK] is betting that you miss going into a store and buying music the old fashioned way. Well, not the "old-fashioned" way, exactly -- but on memory cards instead of CDs. Memory cards packed with DRM-free music, ...READ»

ENTERTAINMENT | 19 comments

The Wizard of iPod--Jobs' DRM Deal Is Smoke and Mirrors

Relevancy Score: 34
Tue Apr 3, 2007 at 2:29 PM

Pay no attention to that man in the mock turtleneck behind the curtain. Too much fanfare, Apple's Steve Jobs and British music giant EMI Group announced that for an extra $.30 they will sell songs on iTunes without copy protection. ...READ»

WARNER MUSIC | Comment

Warner, 7digital Spread the Music

BY Zachary Wilson
Relevancy Score: 34
Mon Aug 3, 2009 at 1:10 PM

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»

FORMAT WARS | 3 comments

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

BY Kit Eaton
Relevancy Score: 34
Tue Aug 11, 2009 at 5:33 AM

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»

MUSIC | 14 comments

The 10 Most Creative People in the Music Biz

BY Lynne d Johnson
Relevancy Score: 28
Tue Jun 16, 2009 at 9:00 AM

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»

ENTERTAINMENT | Comment

Amazon Takes on iTunes

BY Kevin Ohannessian
Relevancy Score: 24
Thu May 17, 2007 at 1:19 PM

Amazon.com has announced they are going to provide a music download service later this year featuring songs without Digital Rights Management. With this move, Amazon joins Apple in selling DRM-free music that has no restrictions and ...READ»

ADSTREAM | Comment

Saving the Music Industry -- Environmentally, At Least

BY Rachel King
Relevancy Score: 22
Wed Sep 24, 2008 at 3:34 PM

As the music biz starts tossing out jewel cases by the busload as they try to jump on the green bandwagon, a Canadian enterprise is also looking to clean up the music industry. Yangaroo, a Toronto-based venture, is innovating the ...READ»

INNOVATION | Comment

Gimme Sanctuary

BY Ian Wylie
Relevancy Score: 22
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 7:50 AM

Andy Taylor has built a music-industry powerhouse by doing what's best for his artists.READ»

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