Topic: Warner Music Group Corp.

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»

Warner's Secret Machine

More and more companies are jumping on the blogwagon. Today's New York Times has a story about what happened when, earlier this month, Warner Brothers Records became the first record label to publicize its music to a handful of MP3 ...READ»

AOL's True Believers

Wall Street is down on AOL Time Warner -- and worried about its moguls. Yet deeper in the ranks, a cadre of executives is working hard to bring the troubled colossus to life. Here's how a new cast of players is building the future of the world's biggest media company.READ»

Why the Music Industry Needs A Makeover

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»

Sky to Launch Music Streaming/Download Service as the Money Moves Elsewhere

In the digital music arena, it often seems like there is iTunes, and then there is everybody else. (A spoof of an iTunes ad pictured left.) While Apple cornered the market early by dropping the iPod on the world and then shrewdly ...READ»

Digital Matters - Issue 39

"That explosion you just heard is the music business."READ»

The Sound of Freedom?

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»

The Music Industry: No Longer a One Trick Pony

There was a time when all a record label had to worry about was making hits. Good hits paved the road to successful albums, and then the label got paid--really paid. As holder of the majority of the publishing rights of music ...READ»

Now, <em>That's</em> Entertainment Technology

When media and tech collide, the consumer wins. Prepare for a media world of unimaginable freedom and endless choices.READ»

The Most Innovative Companies in Music

Apple may be the top music retailer in the U.S., but the company isn't alone when it comes to keeping the industry afloat. Here are the top 10 companies--and a band--innovating the business of music.READ»

Tommy Boy Can CD Future

Rap`s smartest label shows how brute force yields diminishing returns in the face of a better idea.READ»

Entertainment: Madonna's Moves Herald the Future of Music Distribution

Material Girl Madonna appears to be thinking not just like an artist, but also like a businesswoman. The 49-year-old singer has signed a groundbreaking record deal with concert promoter LiveNation, citing her decision to adopt a more ...READ»

Fast Talk: Gamer Controls Music 2.0

Steve Schnur Worldwide Executive of Music and Marketing, Electronic Arts Redwood City, California Steve Schnur, 40, creates the soundtrack for all Electronic Arts video games, including such franchises as Madden NFL and Harry ...READ»

SanDisk Proposes Memory Card Albums

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»

Dotcom Debutantes

Momentum Growth Conference October 4 Mountain View, California The annual Momentum Growth Conference gives 15 private companies poised for an IPO or big-money acquisition the chance to strut their stuff for investors. ...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»

Myspace, the Sequel

With Facebook surging, cofounders Chris DeWolfe and Tom Anderson have gone back to their roots -- music, pop culture, and a proven cash-flow ad model -- to spur a next phase of growth. Will that be enough for boss Rupert Murdoch?READ»

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YouTomb Shows Music Labels Stepping Up YouTube Copyright Crackdowns

Every month, thousands of videos are pulled off YouTube for copyright infringement and other user-flagged violations. A student organization at MIT called Free Culture has compiled a kind of online eulogizer for videos lost to ...READ»

Who Made Urban

Urban culture is a something we've all heard about for a long time. But who created it? And what is it? Largely "urban" means African American. But it us used to refer to some cultural trend (music, fashion, political, etc) that ...READ»

How Blu-ray Lost, Then Won, And May Lose Again

Blu-ray may have defeated HD-DVD, but now it stands a chance of becoming too overpriced for an overburdened economy to adopt. Exactly how did Blu-Ray get to this position, and what's happened since the format's victory that could keep it from taking full advantage?READ»

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Digital Music Arms Race: MSN Joins the Fray

The arms race to lure music-loving clients is heating up at the moment: First Google gets a music service, and now MSN does too. MSN's download service launches tomorrow, and Microsoft's schmoozed all four big record labels to help it ...READ»

Media: Can Google, Limewire Outplay iTunes?

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»

Gimme Sanctuary

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

Gimme Sanctuary

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

Saving the Music Industry -- Environmentally, At Least

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»