New Music Industry Briefing For Wednesday May 24, 2006

– Apple (The Beatles) plans to appeal the UK courst decision that it’s OK for Apple (The Computer Co.) to us the name Apple in music related ventures.

– Smithsonian Folkways Recordings announced that it has selected The Orchard as the exclusive marketing and digital distribution partner for its deep and diverse catalgue.

– EMI Publishing took top publisher honors at the recent ASCAP and BMI awards. Click after the jump for a listing of EMI’s individual winners. EMI also recently posted a 13% earnings increase for the year ending March 31. The jump included a doubling of digital download revenues in the fourth quater to $77.6 million Click here for a webcat earning presentaion.

– More and more major orchestras are going D.I.Y. with their recordings. (Ind. UK)

EMI MUSIC PUBLISHING TAKES TOP PUBLISHER HONORS

AT ASCAP AND BMI AWARDS

LOS ANGELES, May 23, 2006 — EMI Music Publishing continued its unprecedented streak of success taking top honors at both ASCAP and BMI’s Pop Publisher of the Year Awards for 2006. The ASCAP Awards, announced in Los Angeles last night (Monday 22), saw EMI take the top spot for both Publisher of the Year and also Song of the Year for writer and producer Jermaine Dupri for his Mariah Carey hit song ‘We Belong Together."

The ASCAP Awards saw EMI Music Publishing take 17 top song honors, while last week’s BMI Awards (also in Los Angeles) saw 18 song awards going to the company in what has been described it as a "landslide" win for EMI Music Publishing.

The winning EMI Music Publishing songs at the BMI Awards (held on May 16) were:

“1985” – Bowling For Soup
“Accidentally in Love” – Counting Crows
“Don’t Phunk With My Heart” – Black Eyed Peas
“Drop It Like It’s Hot” – Snoop Dogg
“Goodies” – Ciara
“Heaven” – Los Lonely Boys
“Hollaback Girl” – Gwen Stefani
“Leave (Get Out) – JoJo
“Let’s Get It Started” – Black Eyed Peas
“Listen to Your Heart” – D.H.T.
“Lose My Breath” – Destiny’s Child
“My Happy Ending” – Avril Lavigne
“My Place” – Nelly
“Overnight Celebrity” – Twista
“Salt Shaker” – Ying Yang Twins
“Slow Motion” – Juvenile
“Soldier” – Destiny’s Child
“Turn Me On” – 112

The EMI Music Publishing songs honored at last night’s ASCAP dinner were:

“1985” – Bowling For Soup
“Caught Up” – Usher
“Don’t Phunk With My Heart” – Black Eyed Peas
“Karma” – Alicia Keys
“Let Me Hold You” – Bow Wow
“Let Me Love You” – Mario
“Lonely No More” – Rob Thomas
“Lose My Breath” – Destiny’s Child
“My Boo” – Alicia Keys/Usher
“My Place (Come On Over)” – Nelly
“On The Way Down” – Ryan Cabrera
“Shake It Off” – Mariah Carey
“True” – Ryan Cabrera
“Turn Me On” – Kevin Lyttle
“We Belong Together” – Mariah Carey
“Yeah” – Usher
“Behind These Hazel Eyes” – Kelly Clarkson

Adam Grossberg
Senior Director
Corporate Communications
EMI Group
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