independent music News Archive

06-Aug-2008

 

  • BMG duet is over as Sony goes solo (The Hollywood Reporter)
    Sony Corp. has purchased Bertelsmann's 50% stake in their joint music label Sony BMG for a reported $1.5 billion.


  • IODA and R2G Partner to Launch Wawawa Music Store, Bringing Independent Music to China's 253 Million Internet Users (Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance)
    IODA, the global leader in digital distribution, marketing, and technology solutions for the independent music and film industry, and R2G, the leading digital music distribution company in China, today announced an agreement to provide China's growing Internet audience with access to a diverse selection of more than one million recordings of international music. IODA's catalog will be available ...


  • U.S. firm offers 3-cent songs in country where piracy reigns (The Clarion-Ledger)
    A U.S. distributor of independent music is offering songs for about 3 cents apiece online in China, where people have easy access to free, pirated music.


  • In Brief - August 5, 2008 (FMQB)
    Opie & Anthony return to WYSP hinges on new Sirius XM Radio deal, Karmazin buys up more Sirius XM stock, Disc Makers acquires CD Baby


  • What's new in the business scene (Poughkeepsie Journal)
    Environmental company an-nounces new hires - Enviro Clean Services, an environmental management and contracting company in Wappingers Falls specializing in residential and commercial storage tank services, recently announced the following appointments.


  • CHRONOLOGY-Sony BMG's ambitions, legal woes, management spats (Reuters via Yahoo! Singapore News)
    Aug 5 (Reuters) - Sony <6758.T> agreed to buy out Bertelsmann's [BERT.UL ] 50 percent of Sony BMG on Tuesday, ending a four-year music joint venture that never managed to beat the woes of an industry in decline.


  • Singer uses dramatic past, soulful voice to connect (The Pantagraph)
    "Listen, I'm the one you're gonna want in the foxhole with you," advises Janiva Magness, one of the headliners for this weekend's Seventh Annual Nothin' But the Blues Festival.


  • eMusic?s catalog grows to more than 4 million tracks (InternetRetailer.com)
    eMusic, which claims the title of the largest retailer of independent music, reported today that its worldwide catalogue now exceeds 4 million tracks from more than 40,000 record labels.


  • eMusic Catalogue Tops Four Million Tracks (Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance)
    eMusic the world's largest retailer of independent music and the world's second largest music service after iTunes, announces that its worldwide catalogue has now exceeded four million tracks.


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