Sony Music Entertainment

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Top 8 Companies such as Universal, Sony, EMI and Warner Account for 80% of the $15 Billion Annual Industry Revenue Research and Markets has announced the addition of the “Music Production and Distribution” report to their offering. The US music production and distribution industry includes about 3,700 establishments with combined annual revenue of about [...]

billboard.biz

Sony Music Entertainment posted slight gains in the quarter ending June 30, 2010. The company’s revenue increased 1.3% to 110.3 billion yen ($1.24 billion) from 108.8 billion yen last year. Sony cited the impacts of top sellers such as AC/DC’s “Iron Man 2” soundtrack, music from the TV show “Glee,” Usher’s “Raymond v Raymond” and [...]

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INgrooves, a leading provider of digital distribution, marketing and promotion services to the global music & video community via its ONE Digital platform, announced today that its frontline music videos are now live on VEVO, the web’s leading premium music video and entertainment service. INgrooves joins majors Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment and [...]

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A big win for online music startup MOG on the heels of its $10 million funding round: The company has now added Sony Music Entertainment’s sites to its ad network. The deal brings 117 major artist sites—like AliciaKeys.com and GossipYouth.com—to MOG’s network, which historically has been mostly made up of blogs. (The company also has [...]

billboard.biz

Rolf Schmidt-Holtz, CEO of Sony Music Entertainment in New York, is one of four investors of the newly founded company Hanse Ventures based in Hamburg.His partners are Dr. Bernd Kundrun, former CEO of the publishing company Gruner+ Jahr, Jochen Maass, founder of the SEO (search engine optimization) agency artaxo, and Sarik Weber, former VP of [...]

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Latin music fans will get song downloads and other bonus content along with their concert tickets this summer, as Sony Music Entertainment ramps up its “Music Ticket+” bundling program. Sony is preparing to offer Music Ticket+ downloads this summer to fans attending shows by Chayanne, Camila and Daddy Yankee in the United States and Latin [...]

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Library Ideas, LLC, a new media company focused on Public Libraries, announced today an agreement with Sony Music Entertainment to provide its network of Public Library websites in the United States with access to songs from Sony Music’s catalog of legendary artists.
“Music is very important in our community”
Ten Public Libraries [...]

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FIFA and Sony Music Entertainment today announced that Waka Waka (This Time For Africa), written and co-produced by global superstar Shakira, has been chosen as the Official Song of the upcoming 2010 FIFA World Cup™ in South Africa. The song will be performed by Shakira together with South African artist Freshlyground at the Closing [...]

blog.brightcove

We are very excited to announce that in conjunction with our partner, TubeMogul, we will soon be publishing a new quarterly research report that will examine trends in the online video industry and include a variety of interesting data points from our wide-reaching customer base. Every quarter, the report will also highlight a specific industry [...]

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Encounter Technologies, Inc. (PINKSHEETS: ENTI) announced today that it
has just completed the final phase of development on its online music
store, a week ahead of schedule. Its flagship site, www.MusicMatrx.com
now has more than 7 million songs for purchase which are competitively
priced against other major competitors like iTunes and music.com. The
store is backed by MediaNetDigital.com, a [...]

pcworld

Nokia has launched a version of its Comes With Music download service without digital rights management (DRM) for the Chinese market, the phone manufacturer said on Thursday. Nokia’s Comes With Music includes a year of access to music with the price of the phone. Currently, the service is available in about 30 countries, but in [...]

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AUSTIN, Texas, March 11, 2010–
The “Future of Online Music Videos” panel will highlight how
music videos have long been a critical extension of a record
label’s [...]

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Sony Corp’s Sony Music Entertainment will announce a five-year deal with British show business entrepreneur Simon Cowell on Tuesday, the Financial Times reported.
Sony Music will exchange its 100 percent ownership of Cowell’s record label Syco for a 50 percent share of a broader venture with Cowell, the paper said, citing a source close to the [...]

billboard.biz

Chris Brown’s rant that U.S. music retailers are boycotting his new album “Grafitti,” appears to be unfounded. Brown took to his Twitter account - which is now inactive - over the weekend to complain about the fulfillment and display of his album in a series of posts.
“im tired of this shit. major stores r blackballing [...]

thespacelab.tv

There may have been a big launch party for the online music video site Vevo last week, but now the champagne has worn off, the party is over, and we’re stuck with Vevo.
Vevo is a joint venture between YouTube, Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment, EMI Music, AT&T, CBS Interactive Music Group and Abu Dhabi [...]

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RED Distribution (a division of Sony Music Entertainment) teamed up with SPIN, Best Buy and Napster for the premiere SPIN mini-magazine, available now at Best Buy locations nationwide. The 56-page mini-mag features exclusive editorial content from SPIN, with France’s break-out phenomenon Phoenix on the cover, and feature articles on the likes of Passion Pit, [...]

foxbusiness

Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN), today announced that Susan Boyle’s upcoming album, “I Dreamed a Dream,” has become the largest global CD pre-order in the history of Amazon. The album will be released from Sony Music Entertainment on Nov. 23. Boyle became a reality show and Internet star after her April 11, 2009, appearance on the television [...]

hypebot

VEVO, the new music video start-up created by Universal Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment in partnership with Google, is looking for interns for the Spring 2010 semester. Some of the projects interns may be involved in assisting with:
* Post-launch marketing & promotionsimage from independancas.files.wordpress.com
* YouTube [...]

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Some of the world’s largest recording companies are suing “The Ellen DeGeneres Show,” claiming producers violated their copyrights by playing more than 1,000 songs without permission.
Many of the songs were played during the “dance over” segment of the show, when DeGeneres dances from the stage to the interview area, often through the audience.
According to the [...]

billboard

Sony Music Entertainment has re-shuffled a number of executives across several divisions within the company.
Kevin Lawrie has been named president of Europe for Sony Music Entertainment, effective Sept. 1. In this new role, Lawrie will oversee European territories (exluding the United Kingdom and Ireland) and the company’s operations in Africa. He will be based in [...]

kerascene.blogspot

Dynamically-driven AmieStreet is now edging into the major label club, thanks to a deal with RED Distribution. RED is owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a nice coup for the unconventional pricing model. The licensing grab, tipped to Digital Music News early this morning, involves distributed artists like My Morning Jacket, Mandy Moore, and Third Eye [...]

createdigitalmusic

Through the power of skin-safe conductive ink, Scottish electronic artist Calvin Harris has collaborated with a team to make a synthesizer out of himself and a group of models in bikinis. That’s just fine, Calvin – now what are you going to use for your remaining two wishes?
The project is the creation of Calvin, Steve [...]

Tim Gideon
pcmag

In the past decade, have you downloaded music from a peer-to-peer service like LimeWire? Or shared files on the original Napster? Once? Twice? Lots? If so, you might want to hire a good lawyer, or consider moving to another country. Lately, major record labels—specifically, the “Big Four” (EMI, Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment, [...]

Hypebot

This time the rumor mill proved correct. Sony Music Entertainment has entered into a global partnership with IODA which includes an investment in the digital distributor. IODA will now provide digital services for Sony’s RED indie label arm, as well as, offer expanded overseas opportunities. In return, IODA can now offer its labels physical [...]

rollingstone

While organizers continue to plot out a 40th anniversary celebration to honor the original Woodstock, the 1969 festival will enter the 21st century with a new and refurbished Woodstock.com that will act as a “cutting edge live music social network for all concerts,” per an official press release. Woodstock Ventures will collaborate with Sony Music [...]

Liza Porteus Viana
FOXNEWS

Under pressure from the big record labels, several countries around the world are cracking down hard on illegal file-sharers with a “three strikes, you’re out” policy — and the United States may be next.
The basics are simple: Get caught three times sharing files illegally, and your Internet access gets cut off.
But in a [...]

Less than two years after Sony Music Entertainment made a daring move by hiring the legendary music producer Rick Rubin to run its Columbia Records label, the company is learning a lesson from baseball: sometimes the best players don’t make the best managers.
Sony hired Mr. Rubin — a founder of Def Jam Records who has [...]