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Universal Maintains Lead As Biggest Music Company of 2007
Undercover HD - New York,NY,USA
The four major labels are Universal Music, Sony-BMG, Warner and EMI. According to Nielsen SoundScan, Universal had 31.9% of the overall market in 2007 and ...
US Album Sales Down, Digital Sales Up
The Associated Press -
Warner Music remained third-largest, with a 20.2 percent share, an increase of 2.1 percent. Britain's EMI Group PLC ranked fourth among the majors, ...
Sony BMG Lets the Music Play
BusinessWeek - USA
... through Amazon.com's (AMZN) digital music store. EMI and Vivendi's Universal Music Group announced their plans for DRM-free downloads earlier in 2007. ...
Capitol Music executive dies of heart attack at 49
USA Today - USA
Capitol Music Group is a division of music company EMI Group PLC, home of the Beatles, the Rolling Stones and Coldplay. Local music producer Oscar Dais said ...
Antitrust Lawsuit Charges Apple With Monopolizing Online Music
InformationWeek - Manhasset,NY,USA
A week ago, Amazon said that Warner Music Group would make its artists' songs available in the unprotected MP3 format. EMI last year also began offering ...
Major Music Companies Lose Case Against Baidu
WebProNews - Lexington,KY,USA
... it will continue to fill this role, as the People's High Court of Beijing just ruled against a group led by EMI, SONY BMG, and Universal Music. ...
Music industry hails China deep-linking victory
Register - London,England,UK
In a statement issued before Christmas, the international music trade group IFPI, welcomed the decision by saying it set a new precedent. ...
Spreadtrum, Amoi and Kuro Jointly Launch China's First Solution ...
FOX News - USA
Kuro has not only pushed the development of digital music by linking the industry together, but also strives to cross different areas, launching innovative ...
Dutch court fines Bollywood pirates
Afterdawn.com - USA
The action stemmed from a March 2005 raid which led to the seizure of more than 140000 CDs and DVDs containing Indian music and movies from 13 shops across ...
Fisher, Beckerman, stand firm in RIAA row
p2pnet.net - Ontario,Canada
Warner Music, EMI, Vivendi Universal and Sony BMG’s RIAA asserted making MP3s from personal music files and putting them in a shared folder is in and of ...
Washington Post sticks by RIAA story despite evidence it goofed
CNET News.com - San Francisco,CA,USA
Fisher quoted Sony BMG's chief of litigation, Jennifer Pariser, who testified recently in court that "when an individual makes a copy of a song for himself, ...
Conspiracy Against Shareaza and Open Letter to the Recording Industry
TorrentFreak - USA
Since the rise in popularity of P2P networks and software the music industry, represented by the SPPF and their international associates have refused to ...
US firm promises more Bollywood fare in 2008
Hindustan Times - India
Now that Saavn's content is available on the music industry's most popular platform for digital downloads, everyone can enjoy Indian music on their own ...
On the Dilemmas of Artistic (Con)Fusion: Music
Asia Pacific Arts Online Magazine - Los Angeles,CA,USA
The Indian music industry finally pulled itself together and sued the American record label to the tune of $500 million. This little story takes us back to ...
Syco Music Top UK Charts
Top40-Charts.com - New York,NY,USA
London, UK (Top40 Charts/ SONY BMG Music Entertainment) - Today Syco Music are celebrating holding the No.1 spot in three of the UK sales charts. ...
AFA Music Group Turns Talent Into Success in 2007
FOX News - USA
His knowledge of the music industry, paired with his ability to find new talent, gave AFA Music Group its creative soul to complement the Company's CEO, ...
Over the Hilltops, still far away?
The Age - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
In a domestic music industry historically dismissive of Australian hip-hop, Obese Records - which Staaf bought as an ailing retail store in 2002, ...
Chris Brown Sued For Breach Of Contract; Plus Nate Dogg, Bright ...
MTV.com - USA
Radiohead singer Thom Yorke has hit back at the boss of his former label, EMI Music, after claims that the band had rejected a nearly $6 million advance for ...
Thom Yorke: Why he's glad to have made such a big noise
Independent - London,England,UK
But when they announced that they would allow fans to decide the price of their new album, the implications for the music industry were profound. ...
Children of the flag
Trinidad & Tobago Express - Port-of-Spain,Trinidad and Tobago
One would think that in this time of illegal music downloads, and other forms of music piracy that continue to cripple the fledgling local music industry, ...
'Rosary' duo's new CD aimed at all Christians
Minneapolis Star Tribune (subscription) - Minneapolis,MN,USA
The labor-of-love project didn't earn much money, but it did get noticed by the music industry (it was nominated for a Grammy) and, more important to the ...
Singer/Songwriter/Pianist Katherine Farnham to Appear
All About Jazz - Philadelphia,PA,USA
The panels include Co-Host Adam Gaynor of the band Matchbox 20, as well as music industry attorneys, promoters, and publishing experts. ...
Zee steps up on movie business; buys Om Shanti Om satellite rights
MUMBAI: With all the corporate mollah flowing in into the filmed entertainment space, Subhash Chandra's Zee Telefilms is now planning to revive its film production plans in a big way. Apart from plans on the production front, the company's movie channel Zee Cinema is also getting aggressive.
Big Music & Home eyes 40 per cent share in home entertainment
Business Standard - Mumbai,Maharashtra,India
The music industry in India is estimated at Rs 900 crore right now, which is expected to double year on year on the back of mobile music downloads catching ...
Big Music & Home plans Bengali film foray
Business Standard - Mumbai,Maharashtra,India
Reliance plans to revive the Bengali movie industry at par with other regions like the South Indian movie market which is estimated to be double the size of ...
ADAG to sell 5% stake in entertainment arm
Times of India - India
Sources said given the prospect of the Indian entertainment industry, there has been interest from most of the large global institutional players for buying ...
Get your licence or else face the music
Newindpress - Chennai,Tamil Nadu,India
While some establishments were quick to abide by the law and secured their permits, others chose to take on this watchdog body of Indian Music Industry ...
IMI seals Delhi's CD plant Rhythm Tech
Business of Cinema - Mumbai,Maharashtra,India
Citing this as the first case in India, Lazarus says, "We re-appealed and the court upheld our appeal, and their manufacturing unit has been completely ...
Hotels pay royalty to let the music play
CNN-IBN - New Delhi,India
Phonographic Performance Limited, affliated to the Indian Music Industry, has already sent legal notices to hotels like JW Mariott and Leela Kempenski in ...
Hungama,Friend Media join forces against piracy
Business Standard - Mumbai,Maharashtra,India
According to Neeraj Roy, CEO, Hungama.com, the Indian industry, especially players such as themselves with a large repository of original content and ...
eXposé, a Solution to beat Online Piracy announced by Hungama ...
TechShout! - Mumbai,India
We are very happy to be associated with the market leader in digital entertainment, Hungama Mobile who have a direct access to the entire Indian ...
Bollywood wakes up to online piracy
Mumbai Newsline - Mumbai,India
Says Vijay Lazarus, president of the Indian Music Industry, who has taken many representations to fight piracy, "Most often uploading is a harmless step by ...
In Mumbai, Hollywood Gambles — and Gets Burned
NPR - USA
The consulting firm pricewaterhousecoopers predicts that India's film industry will more than double in size over the next four years, from just over $2 ...
Why the big fight over spectrum
Sify - Chennai,Tamil Nadu,India
That makes the Indian telecom sector extremely lucrative, and explains the fight for it. India has a total of 217.14 million mobile subscribers and the ...
Rich Mobile Content Available in India from Media Magic
TMCnet - USA
India has realized a digital music industry that is already bigger than the physical sales. As 50 percent of India is below the age of 25, music and gaming ...
Chak De! India enters management school curriculum
Hindustan Times - India
The corporate training industry is feeding LCD projectors with scenes, music & characters from Bollywood films, reports S Mitra. Chak De! India scores yet ...
How Shah Rukh, Big B are helping India Inc
Hindustan Times - India
The corporate training industry, worth close to Rs 1 lakh crore, is feeding LCD projectors with scenes, characters and music from mainstream Bollywood films ...
Scorpions
unplugged!
Times of India - India
"We've heard that music is big over here, and yes, we have heard Bollywood songs, they're the very mainstream side of Indian music. ...
'Fusion music is a sort of flirtation'
Hindustan Times - India
I don't disrespect the industry - I have several friends out there. If something worthy comes my way, I'm still open to composing for movies. ...
Partners in Rhyme
Chandigarh Newsline - Chandigarh,India
No wonder the perfect mix of east and west has taken the Bollywood music industry by a tornado, the latest being Om Shanti Om. "When we make music, ...
Pritam
reveals secret behind a hit
NDTV.com - New Delhi,India
Bollywood music director Pritam, who has churned out the hit Punjabi numbers Mauja mauja and Nagara nagara in the recently released Jab We Met, ...
Today's music directors talented but lack knowledge: Pyarelal
Hindu - Chennai,India
When asked about plagiarism in the music industry and particularly about his song Jhumma Chumma, which was a copy of Mory Kante's "Tama Tama", he says, ...
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