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Major Record Label Seeking Buyer

Which major is seeking a new owner?

Mar 29 2013 | Posted in featured,Labels | Read More »

EU Piracy Report – Ramifications For The Music Business

ShareTweet The European Commission has released a report on the effect of digital music piracy on digital music consumption. It seems to have generated a giant backlash from the vested interests of the Major Labels including the IFPI, their representative body, and certain digital music services including Spotify. TMV have now read the report and [...]

Mar 23 2013 | Posted in Digital,featured,Labels | Read More »

Update: An Exercise in Irrelevancy

ShareTweet Thanks to one of my valued readers, the latest sales figures for recent memoirs by both Tommy Mottola and Clive Davis reveal how little it takes to become a New York Times bestselling author. Tommy’s Hitmaker entered at Number 3 on the NY Times list last month with sales for the previous week totaling [...]

Mar 11 2013 | Posted in featured,Labels | Read More »

i, Clive

Review: Clive Davis autobiography

Feb 28 2013 | Posted in featured,Labels | Read More »

Did Tommy Mottola Buy Credibility From The New York Times?

“Hitmaker” Number 3 and gone

Feb 19 2013 | Posted in featured,Labels,Marketing | Read More »

Did Warner Overpay for Parlophone?

WMG owner Len Blavatnik shows off the jewelry that the Vivendi board gave him at the closing of the Parlophone deal.

Vivendi would have taken $200 million less

Feb 18 2013 | Posted in featured,Labels | Read More »

Grammy Winners & Losers, 2013 Edition

Grammy’s real winners & losers

Feb 18 2013 | Posted in featured,Labels,Wide Angle | Read More »

Mottola’s “Hitmaker” Misses

ShareTweet Former Sony Music Entertainment chairman Tommy Mottola released his memoir last week, ”Hitmaker: The Man and His Music”, and has been making the media rounds. The once T.D. Valentine turned Tommy Mottola turned Thomas D. Mottola is now back to the good old Tommy. In these interviews, Tommy appears as an older, wiser, mellow, [...]