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EMI Crashes £1.75 Billion Into The Red
EMI, the music group behind artists ranging from Pink Floyd to Katy Perry and country and western band Lady Antebellum, crashed £1.75bn into the red last year, according to figures released by the company on Friday 5th February.
The loss is one of the biggest black holes ever seen in a private equity-backed business and threatens [...]
Lily Allen Steps Up
Hooray for Lily Allen, she had the guts to stand up and say enough is enough, “File-sharing’s not OK for British music. I want to get people working together to use new digital opportunities to encourage new artists.” Not since Metallica’s stance against Napster ten years ago has an artist so boldly stood up [...]
Vevo Valued at $300 Million?
Yesterday it was reported that Universal Music execs were on the road pitching for investment in Vevo, Universal’s joint venture with Sony Music. They are giving the yet-to-be-launched music video channel a $300 million valuation, more than Spotify even. This, of course, is psychotic.
Generally speaking, investors have been very wary of record labels. They don’t [...]
TMV Interview (Video) -Terry Mcbride (CEO, Nettwerk Music Group)
The Music Void – Terry McBride on MUZU.
Terry describes how he is undertaking a new groundbreaking model whereby a platinum artist goes on tour but the fans only pay when they leave and pay what they believe the show is worth. Al-la Radiohead but taking it to the live arena pun intended). Terry goes on [...]
From Google to Gone: EMI Boots Digital Boss Douglas Merrill
TMV decided to get Ted Cohen Ex- SVP Digital Business at EMI Music Digital and managing partner of Consulting firm TAG Strategic provides his view on the departure of Douglas Merrill from EMI.
I’m currently in Margaret River, a resort town 3 hours south of Perth, Australia. It’s a sleepy place, the Napa Valley of Western [...]
Musexpo Europe 2008 Report
Well have just begun recovering from the first installment of Musexpo Europe which has been exported to london from the fine folks at AnR Worldwide in Los Angeles. 2.5 days of conference sesssions networking and showcases and I’m now looking forward to an early night!
Monday 27th October
Got off to a flying state with a [...]
Revisit To Can New Up and Coming Artists Afford To Give Away Their Music For Free?
After lecturing a bunch of 14 – 17 year old teenagers on the future of the music industry last Thursday, I have had to revisit some of the opinions I outlined in my previous article focusing on this topic. Compounding this was a number of comments on that particular article and especially one from a high level English Music Promoter forcefully stating that my views were very “old school”. This same industry executive also went on to state that new and upcoming artists should be giving away their music for free in return for collecting fans email addresses.
Can New Up-and-Coming Artists or Labels Afford to Give Away Music For Free?
With the proliferation of large megastar artists giving away their music for free, think Prince, Oasis, NIN Radiohead and Coldplay, is giving away music just a brief trend or is it here for the long-haul? Where does it leave young new artists who have not had the benefit of large marketing budgets to build national and international audiences? Will young up and coming artists be able to derive an income from other income sources if they give their recorded music away for free? Where does this, leave record labels in terms of investment in new talent?
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Billboard.biz- Vevo's Traffic Surge March 11, 2010
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Peter Sunde, one of the founders and former spokesperson of BitTorrent site The Pirate Bay, recently debuted a new venture…one that will actually make content owners money instead of bleeding them dry. The project is in the form of a service, called Flattr (get it, like flattering?) that aims to...
Everyone is now well familiar with the story of Spiral Frog and how it buried the ad-supported download model. Reasons given for this are numerous, ranging from reports of blatant mismanagement to non-compatibility with iPods to consumer resistance to being force fed a 60 or 90 second commercial before the...