Record labels have to keep experimenting on new ways to market their products. Case in point: Capitol/EMI says it is partnering with newspaper publisher Gannett (NYSE: GCI) to offer free…

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Music start-up vet Mark Piibe is moving to the digital side at EMI as global head of digital business development for EMI Music. Effective immediately, Piibe, who had been SVP-Business…

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Now that the extravagant “flowers” bill has come down, EMI’s turnaround certainly looks on track. The label may not have to report its earnings publicly since it was taken private…

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-- EMI Music: EMI Group has enlisted the European head of Air Wick maker Reckitt Benckiser’s head, Elio Leoni-Sceti (pictured), to take the helm at its EMI Music recorded music…

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-- BBC: BBC marketing director Tim Davie is being tapped to replace Heritage-Lottery Fund-bound Jenny Abramski as director of Audio & Music, in a move that reflects the BBC’s desire…

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Beatles representatives, who haven’t yet reached a deal to offer the band’s music online, are now in talks with two video games companies for a Beatles-themed video game, in a…

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EMI Music has agreed to allow the BBC to release its artists’ TV and radio performances that are currently in the broadcaster’s archives. The deal that will let both entities…

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EMI Music is hiring Linden Lab co-founder and developer guru Cory Ondrejka to the new position of digital strategy SVP, in a move it says will “drive innovation around new…

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SpiralFrog, the ad-funded free music and video download site, has signed a distribution deal with UK-based label EMI, giving it access to the content of two of the four major…

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Spinnaker Media, a holding company for family-friendly media content, has acquire HearItFirst.com, a Christian music discovery site from EMI CMG (Christian Music Group). Launched in 2005, HearItFirst looks like any…

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Terra Firma chief executive Guy Hands reaffirmed his restructuring plan for EMI Group in a recent note to partners.  The address, which traversed a broad number of Terra investments, acknowledged…

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Best Of compilations usually are released when an artist dies, a band needs to fulfil a contract or a label is trying to make cash off a recently-departed group. In…

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UK rock group Coldplay made its new single, Violet Hill, available for free for a week from yesterday at coldplay.com - and is already finding the move is paying off.…

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MP3tunes CEO Michael Robertson is resorting to desperate tactics in his defense against music copyright charges brought by EMI. The digital locker proprietor has emailed users urging them to upgrade…

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Music publishing company Chrysalis has ended takeover talks with prospective buyers, which included EMI and Warner Chappell, the music publishing unit of Warner Music, because it couldn’t get the kind…

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Just got off the phone with Douglas Merrill, the Google (NSDQ: GOOG) CIO who is leaving what he called “the best CIO job in the world” to join EMI as…

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Another high profile Google (NSDQ: GOOG) departure: VP of Engineering Douglas Merrill has left the online giant and joined the embattled music label EMI as its new digital president, apparently…

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- Independent owner: Irish telecoms tycoon Denis O’Brien plans to mount a full takeover bid for Tony O’Reilly’s Independent News & Media “in the coming weeks” and sell The Independent,…

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Nokia (NYSE: NOK) looks set to gain EMI’s repertoire to add to the Universal catalogue that will be part of its upcoming Comes With Music pre-bundled music initiative. EMI Finland…

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Oxford-based We7, which offers music tracks for free with ads tacked on the front, has signed its first major label deal with SonyBMG, which will license its catalog of more…

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A rather sketchy story from The Telegraph has started another Beatles-iTunes tizzy. It’s a different law of large numbers—the larger the dollar amount you can attach to a story with…

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EMI has licensed Jamba to provide what the News Corp (NYSE: NWS). and Verisign-owned mobile entertainment outfit says is the label’s first DRM-free repertoire in Europe to cross both mobile…

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EMI confirmed today that it will cut up to 2,000 jobs at the company in a planned restructuring of its recorded music division that is expected to reduce costs by…

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Terra Firma’s much-anticipated restructuring of EMI will result in major job cuts and a fresh equity investment, according to reports on the eve of the announcement. Up to one third…

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Guy Hands’ new strategy to turn EMI around will stress “tackling digital challenges”, “understanding the needs of the consumer” and the “importance of keeping artists at the heart of what…

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