Welcome to the new Sony Music Just when you thought that the summer doldrums were upon us, rumblings emanating from Asia-Pacific say that the recorded music division of Sony Music is the next major r...
Why make a trillion when we could make... billions? Google is offering billion dollar checks to labels for blanket rights to their entire catalogs, according to highly placed digital music sources. A...
"Sylvia, my little bialy. Meet me at the Tour Eiffel and well make audacious music together." audacious intrepidly daring : adventurous ; recklessly bold : rash contemptuous of law, religio...
Finally. Yesterday UMG CEO and new president of show business, Lucian Grainge, banished long-standing President & COO, Zach Horowitz, to Siberia by moving him over to the publishing company as Ch...
The King of "Free" Music Services, Australian "entrepreneur" Allan Klepfisz. Dont expect to be buying shares in Qtrax anytime soon. The US Securities and Exchange Commission toda...
Its unlikely that Mogs investors will get all of their money back For the last few weeks the digital rumor mill has been buzzing about an imminent sale of the Mog music service. CEO David Hyman told ...
Users have voted on Google Music and the results arent good so far. Last week CNET’s top digital music reporter Greg Sandoval reported that Google Music is not living up to expectations, noting...
"I owe you how much?" There have been numerous media reports since her untimely death that Whitney Houston passed away “dead” broke. In January a Whitney insider told Radar Onli...
Last night’s Grammy Award Show featured performances that rivaled Madonna’s Super Bowl halftime monstrosity and had its share of winners and losers. Here is my “alternative” t...
If Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom were really smart, this is where he would be today: a beach somewhere with no extradition treaty. Who keeps their clothes on at the beach anyway? Yesterday Digital Mu...
Get your motor runnin. Head out on the highway. Lookin for adventure and whatever comes our way While everyone at 550 Madison Ave. eagerly awaits the exit of Rick Rubin, speculation has risen that th...
The job market ain’t so great these days, as everyone knows, but high-priced top notch talent is always in demand. Just look at Sony Music and you sure do see the high-priced part of the equati...
How to rewrite history with one little press release The news that NARAS is honoring Steve Jobs with a Trustee Award has been picked up by media outlets worldwide. In making the announcement, the Aca...
"Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends." Enjoy the ride from the back of Sylvia Rhones Bentley limo. No puny little Lincoln Town car for her! Everyone in the business by now k...
Back to the future? With the new app from legendary AIR Studios your iPad can now play vinyl! Pretty cool. The resurgence of vinyl records has been a small but growing bright spot for the music indus...
Its bonus time!!!! When Lucian Grainge pulled the rug out from under Sony Music and Warner Music last month with the surprise acquisition of EMI, it left both companies sucking for any leftover oxyge...
Everybody has said something stupid that they later regret. However the music industry is awash in stupidity. Given that it’s final exam time, take this little pop quiz and see just how ...
Remember what happened to Moe Greene? Today Hits Magazine reported that former Sony North America chairman Don Ienner has been added to Lucian Grainge’s executive stable at Universal Music in t...
Thanks to my sources inside Warner Music, I have exclusively obtained a copy of Edgar Bronfman, Jr.’s latest memo to the company: Dear Colleagues: As Warner Music Group begins its next chapter,...
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