Music Playlist at MixPod.com Calvin Cordozar Broadus, Jr. (born October 20, 1971), better known by his stage name Snoop Dogg, is an American rapper, record producer, and actor. Snoop is best known as a rapper in the West Coast hip hop scene, and for being one of Dr. Dre's most notable pro... Read more...
Back in 2007 (June 30, Billboard) when I asked what is an indie, I got a multitude of answers. Today, that question evokes even more complex answers because the landscape has not only changed dramatically but is still changing. Over the last 15 years, things have only gotten even murkier. Majors ... Read more...
Len Blavatnik's Access Industries is buying Warner Music Group Corp., the world's third-largest recording company, for about $1.3 billion, according to a person familiar with the matter. The person, who was not authorized to speak publicly about the matter and spoke on condition of anonymity, ... Read more...
Citigroup (C.N), which got control of the world's fourth-largest record company EMI from British financier Guy Hands in February, plans to sell the company as a whole, the New York Post reported, citing sources. EMI Chief Executive Roger Faxon has been arguing for months that a breakup would hurt... Read more...
The race for Warner Music Group is now down to the three most credible bids but the board would consider more bidders, according to a person with knowledge of the discussions. These three companies were identified by a Bloomberg report as Yucaipa Companies, Access Industries and Platinum Equity.... Read more...
Topspin CEO Ian Rogers sketches out a different future. Rogers, the former head of Yahoo Music, correctly points out, as others have before him, that it is not the music industry that is dying. It is the CD business. And as far as the CD business going the way of the dodo, with sales of physi... Read more...
Citigroup Inc. seized control of EMI Group Ltd. after the record label struggled to meet the terms of loans used to finance its takeover by Guy Hands, opening the way for a sale of the 114-year-old company. The U.S. bank, which funded Hands’s takeover in 2007, will own all of EMI after the de... Read more...
EMI Music Australia has teamed with national telco AAPT to create a groundbreaking music service. The new AAPT "Entertainment Bundle" fuses unlimited broadband and home phone line rental with a music subscription, and is a first for the Australian market. EMI Music Australia's digital retail pl... Read more...
EMI has reached an agreement with Dailymotion to deliver the major's premium music videos to the video-sharing service's Web site, mobile site, iPhone app and the Dailymotion channel on Internet-connected TVs. From April 2010, Dailymotion users will have free access to videos from artists inclu... Read more...