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Downtown Records, home of Justice, Santogold, Kid Sister, and many other bands seemingly designed for the blog era's express-consumption cycle, is moving its distribution from the largely Warner Music Group-owned ADA (with occasional upstreams over to Atlantic) to a deal with the Fonatana distribution arm of Universal Music Group. (The deal beings with the release of this month's Cold War Kids disc.)...
A former senior vice president of consumer marketing for Warner Music Group has jumped ship from the major label for a start-up called uPlayMe that promises to connect music consumers around the music and videos they watch. However, uPlayMe will...
Former KORN guitarist Brian "Head" Welch is launching a promo tour to celebrate the release of his debut solo album, "Save Me From Myself", due out September 9 on Driven Music Group (distribution by Ryko/Warner Music Group), the label he co-founded with music execs Greg Shanaberger and Mark Nawara. The first single, "Flush", is currently spinning on radio stations nationwide, including XM and Sirius,...
CALL them subterranean superstars. Tomorrow night, the "Final Four" of subway musicians will perform a showcase at the Cutting Room in front of luminaries like guitar maestro Robert Randolph, Warner Music Group honcho Kevin Liles and Kiss FM deejay...
British singer/rapper ESTELLE has suffered a massive blow to the U.S. sales of her hit single AMERICAN BOY, after record label executives removed her album SHINE from digital download service iTunes. The move by the star’s bosses at Warner Music Group was aimed at forcing fans into record stores to purchase a CD version of the [...]
What do you buy the millionaire record company exec who already has everything this holiday season? Well how about Warner Music Group's American chairman and chief executive Lyor Cohen's former stock shares? With Mr. Cohen selling 23% of his stock in WMG, there are plenty of lovable stock options to choose from! 80,000 cuddly options, to be exact — each going for $8.45 a share, equaling approximately...
Sam Gustin notes that when Portfolio.com reported that Warner Music Group had hired industry consultant Jim Griffin to explore blanket licensing for digital music, the tech blogosphere erupted in protest. Griffin's idea, to bundle a monthly fee into consumers' internet-service bills for unlimited access to music, was decried as a "music tax" and " extortion scheme ," by prominent bloggers such as...
Following in the footsteps of its stock-dumping chairman/CEO Lyor Cohen , Warner Music Group's executive VP of human resources, Mark David Ansorge, cashed in 75,000 shares of company stock at $7.56 per share yesterday, netting a cool $567,000. Oh, to be a fly on the wall when he explains the company's next "restructuring" to whatever employees are still left... Correction and update: WMG's corporate...
Following in the footsteps of its stock-dumping chairman/CEO Lyor Cohen , Warner Music Group's executive VP of human resources, Mark David Ansorge, cashed in 75,000 shares of company stock at $7.56 per share yesterday, netting a cool $567,000. Oh, to be a fly on the wall when he explains the company's next "restructuring" to whatever employees are still left... [ Hypebot / Pic via Despair ]
New York - Warner Music Group (NYSE: WMG) announced that it has signed new agreements with Microsoft's Xbox Live Marketplace and U.K. digital retailer We7, to sell music videos and DRM-free MP3 downloads, respectively. Videos from WMG artists will be available to the 12 million worldwide Xbox Live members for download and viewing on their televisions via the game console. The ad-supported We7 service,...
While profits have shrunk, the distribution power of the four music giants -- Universal Music Group, Sony BMG Music Entertainment, EMI Entertainment, Warner Music Group -- is unparalleled.
Warner Music Group has announced it has teamed up with Microsoft to deliver new music videos to the Xbox Live Marketplace from its featured artists, such as Cute is We Aim For, Death Cab For Cutie, Flo Rida, Matchbox Twenty, T.I. and Panic! At The Disco. (comment on this article…)
Filed under: Microsoft Xbox 360 , Business "Panic! At the Disco" would actually make a neat title for an indie developed XBLA game, but, as our lengthy research has concluded, is already taken by a popular musical act. The band and several more will see their music videos on the Xbox Live Marketplace thanks to a newly announced deal between Microsoft and the Warner Music Group. Videos from Death Cab...
Filed under: News : Gaming Consoles Gamers with a hankering to watch music videos will have more choices after Warner Music Group Corpnnounced it is adding its library of videos to the Xbox 360 game console. Read more
Reacting to comments made earlier this month by Warner Music Group CEO Edgar Bronfman, Activision head Bobby Kotick says Bronfman's desire for larger royalties from rhythm games is "one-sided" and not respectful. "I think his view was ... that [Warner...
