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Universal Revenues Slide 6.2%, Digital up 8.4%
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HypeBot
Universal Music Group's (UMG) revenues were 4,363 million in 2009 a 6.2% decrease compared to 2008. Digital sales grew 8.4% tempered by softening demand for mobile products in the United States and Japan. Music publishing revenues increased 1.7% and UMG newly acquired merchandising division grew 24.6%
The year end report touted UMG's support of “Spotify's premium service accessible on the iPhone and MusicStation's launch on the Android platform". but failed to mention Spotify's free ad supported online service or when ...
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RightsFlow Partners with the Royalty Network
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HypeBot
The Royalty Network, an independent music publisher and administrator and RightsFlow, a provider of bulk mechanical licensing and royalty services, announced a new partnership granting RightsFlow a blanket license for The Royalty Network's entire catalog.
This blanket access will allow RightsFlow to more accurately identify, account, and remit royalties on behalf of their over 9,500 label, distributor, music service and artist clients. The agreement marks a growing trend of independent music publishers engaging in new procedures to reduce administrative workload ...
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Los Andes Big Band Survives Chile Earthquake
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Lubricity
I just heard back from a close friend in Chile and thought this would be a good place to pass along word of the Chilean jazz community in the wake of the mega-earthquake that hit the country over the weekend. Santiago Cerda Contreras (pictured) is a jazz composer, arranger and director of Los Andes Big Band, Chiles preeminent jazz ensemble.
I just caught up with Santiago via gchat apparently power has just been restored to his village of Penaflor in ...
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Will Universal Music's New Boss Keep the Hits Coming?
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Michael Ricci
Lucian Grainge's management style is not short on theatrical flourish. Four years ago, the Briton who is about to become the world's most powerful music industry executive, arrived late to the boardroom of Universal Music Group's international head office in London after the company had suffered a particularly poor sales period.
As he entered, he turned off the lights, leaving his executive team sitting nervously in the dark. He then paced around the room until finally uttering the words: “See ...
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Acid Jazz...Is This a Form of Jazz Music or What? The Debate Continues
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JAZZzology by Richard Watters
Okay...this subject is an ongoing debate I have had with several of my jazz musician friends...is Acid Jazz just a name given by a radio disc jockey to promote some readily unidentifiable form of pop music or is it a form of jazz music?What is Acid Jazz? you may ask...personally I consider it a sub-genre of the jazz art form...notz.com gives us a little background on Acid Jazz..."Well for one thing it is very difficult to define, the ...
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Notes from the Net: Pizzarelli Does Ellington; Don Cheadle on the Miles Movie; Plus News, Reviews, Interviews, and More
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
Here's the latest compilation of assorted news briefs and links related to jazz, improvisation, and creative music in St. Louis, including news of musicians originally from the Gateway City, recent visitors, and coming attractions, plus assorted other items of interest:* In this week's Miles Davis news, AllAboutJazz.com is giving readers a chance to win a free copy of the boxed 70-CD set The Complete Columbia Album Collection. (This is a different giveaway than the one mentioned here earlier.) ...
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New Chopin Museum Opens in Warsaw
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All About Jazz
Composers 200th birthday will be celebrated all year in his native Poland. A new museum focusing on the life of Frederic Chopin has opened in Warsaw.
The last piano that Frederic Chopin composed on. A death mask made after he succumbed to what was probably tuberculosis. A lock of his brown hair. Those are among objects on display at a new museum dedicated to the life of the Romantic-era composer that opened on his 200th birthday Monday in his native ...
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