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Warner Music Group Plannning $750m EMI Bid
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Terra Firma's Guy Hands and EMI CEO Roger Faxon claim they have no intention of selling EMI. But its doubtful that their largest lender Citigroup agrees, and since loosing his lawsuit woth the bank, Hands may have no choice. Eager, as he has in the past to take advantage of EMI's struggles is Edgar Bronfman Jr's Warner Music Group, who The Guardian reports is once again readying a $750 million fire sale price bid for EMI's recorded music division that ...
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Why Piracy is Good for Innovation
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This guest essay is written by Robbert van Ooijen. He recently graduated on online music and music piracy at the master New Media & Digital Culture at the Dutch University of Utrecht. Van Ooijen also blogs at HaveYouHeard.It. Last Tuesday, ARS Technica reported about the US government's upcoming list of the world's “notorious markets" for copyright infringement and counterfeiting, compiled from rightsholder complaints. While the odds of calling out the world's most notorious markets is further discussed on ARS Technica, ...
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Bands as a Business: Invest Money in Marketing
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This is second part of my interview segment with Paige X. Cho, who is the Administration and Promotions Manager for digital distributor Valleyarm and author of the Melbourne music blog Paper-Deer. In this part, Cho talks about the importance of bands thinking of themselves as a business, how pop suffers the most from file sharing, and the shutdown of LimeWire. Could you describe the relationship between superfans and the artists? Cho: The term “superfan" reminds me of Mel from Flight ...
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Signmeto Roadrunner Records is Fan-Sourced A&R
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(UPDATED) Roadrunner Records has launched a new service called SignMeTo. The idea behind the site is to allow fans and unsigned bands to take part in the A&R process. Users operate as scouts and seek out unsigned band profiles, rating them according to their preference. As users interact with and rate more artists, the amount of influence they have increases. Such actions influence the charts on the site. Along the way, bands can also earn badges, some of which are ...
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A Brief History of Musical Disruption...
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Digital Music News
The music industry is certainly navigating though interesting times, but are these the most disruptive of times? Shifting fromdiscs to digital is no small matter, though a stroll through history reveals some seriously seismic shifts—potentially on a grander scale than what we're currently experiencing. There's no question that the physical music format has been 'disrupted' at least a handful of times since the gramophone first appeared. But moving from one playback mechanism to another is mostly small potatoes — at ...
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The Dangers of Social Media as Sales Pitch... or How Artists Create Seth Godin's Meatball Sundae
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Recently, I spoke with Paige X. Cho, who is the Administration and Promotions Manager for digital distributor Valleyarm during business hours, and a freelance music writer and marketing consultant for bands at night. She's also recently started up Melbourne music blog Paper-Deer to fulfill her obsession with the local talent in her adopted city. In this interview Cho talks about Seth Godin's Meatball Sundae concept, how some artists are too shy about their use of social media while others are ...
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Jazz Forward Coalition: "Business of Jazz" Launch
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DL Media
A Global and Unified Voice For Jazz Jazz is as vital as ever, with vibrant local scenes, active educators and thousands of jazz recordings released each year. However, the jazz community lacks a central organization to coordinate and maximize its vast resources, and must take a mainstream new media approach through social and professional networking. The Jazz Forward Coalition (JFC) was formed by a consortium of industry leaders who seek to raise jazz's profile by enhancing its vitality and cultural ...
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On Management in the Music Industry
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"Music enterprises must be able to strategize and plan in order to create value for its customers." None Like Joshua writes on Music Think Tank about strategy, planning, and management in the music industry. He emphasizes the importance of aligning a company's core values and vision with customer values. Planning is essential to creating a targeted strategy which creates value for consumers. In the ever-changing music industry, management must be willing to change to keep up with current technology and ...
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