A CRITICAL FIRST LOOK (UPDATED) After several months of open rumors, EMI has relaunched its flagship web site as a music discovery destination.  While direct purchase will be enabled soon,. Continue reading

Will Partnership Extend To U.S.? Under an expanded agreement, EMI will add digital distribution to physical sales of Warner Music Group repertoire in India and the Middle East, a role. Continue reading

EMI is praying that Santa is generous this season as it stares down a major post-Christmas payment due on  £2.7 billion in loans from Citigroup. UK analysts are warning that. Continue reading

Last week I wrote about Warner Music Group’s efforts to convince colleges to license music for their students at the ISP level. There’s even a copy of a slide show. Continue reading

Universal Music Group and Meebo.com are partnering to add ad-supported videos to the site. The partnership launches with Kanye West, Ludacris and The Killers. UMG also will embed Meebo Rooms. Continue reading

Two years after Steve Jobs declared that DRM was dead and a year after Amazon launched its DRM-free download store with all four major labels, the vast majority of tracks. Continue reading

A group of Terra Firma executives on loan to EMI have left the private equity group after the music group’s new CEO brought in his own management team. More from. Continue reading

Despite declining CD sales and an increasingly dismal economy, WMG managed to meet analysts’ expectations and hold its own. 2008 fiscal year revenue grew 3% to $3,491M, and declined 2%. Continue reading

Early A&R Successes Included Vanilla Ice And Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Pete Ganbarg has joined Atlantic Records as Executive Vice President of A&R, based in New York. Ganbarg, has previously. Continue reading