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...TikTok has failed in its attempts to restart negotiations with Universal Music, according to people familiar with the matter, leaving two of the most powerful companies in entertainment deadlocked over money...
...Two years ago Vivendi split its most valuable business, Universal Music Group, via a listing....
...“Streaming has really globalised the business — in the rest of Europe, going into Asia and into Africa, there’s so much happening in terms of culture, media, fashion, music, sports,” he said in an interview...
...Now, the Department of Justice is reportedly preparing to sue Ticketmaster’s parent company Live Nation Entertainment over anti-competitive practices....
...The Warner Bros movie studio created a music division in the 1950s....
...Ari Emanuel, chief executive of the entertainment and media company Endeavor, has been among those to call on big music companies to cease working with West, who is widely viewed as one of the most influential...
...“[Blavatnik] has a real love of the arts and the entertainment industry.”...
...The allure of the streaming entertainment era is the opportunity to consume shows and music à la carte. Media mergers and acquisitions should proceed similarly....
...Having been turned down for a box at the exclusive Academy of Music, assertive arriviste Bertha Russell (Carrie Coon) decides to lead a campaign to turn the upstart Met into the place to see and be seen....
...When he first showed off the iPhone, Jobs pitched it as the perfect device for three things: making phone calls, browsing the web and listening to music: an App Store did not figure in the equation....
...Cheryl Brumley is the FT’s global head of audio, and our theme song is by Metaphor Music. [MUSIC PLAYING]...
...On behalf of 17 music publishers including Sony Music Group and Universal Music Publishing Group, the National Music Publishers’ Association filed a suit in the federal district court of Nashville alleging...
...Importantly, the live music renaissance will boost artists’ income just as other clouds gather....
...The ‘nuclear option’ Universal’s showdown with TikTok is testing who has the most power in today’s music economy, the Wall Street Journal reports....
...Bo knows football … ”) while showing the athlete’s sense of humour by ending on a line from the music legend: “Bo, you don’t know Diddley”....
...A needle scratches, the music stops and they stare blankly: clearly not....
...Sony, which is now more famous for its entertainment business and PlayStation games than the Walkman portable music player, is ranked third while semiconductor equipment maker Tokyo Electron is fifth....
...But in recent years, Silicon Valley has disrupted the business model of film and television in much the same way as it has the music business and news media....
...The country’s exports of content including music, films and video games reached a record high of $12.4bn in 2021, according to the latest government data....
...In the past five years, Sony has gone on an acquisition spree to expand its entertainment assets, buying EMI Music Publishing for $2.3bn and spending $1.2bn to acquire AT&T’s anime streaming service Crunchyroll...
...In most of social media, it’s entertainment-based, using a lean-back consumption mode....
...According to OryLab Inc, which runs the café, the goal is to use technology to achieve a new form of social participation....
...WaPo’s figures come from an article Cohan wrote for Inc, an American business magazine....
...After buying a 50 per cent stake in Houston’s estate in 2019, Primary Wave has been working to boost the income generated by the late singer’s music through branding and entertainment deals....
...Live Nation bought Ticketmaster in 2010, a deal that combined the biggest concert promoter with the dominant ticketing site, raising concerns about its monopolistic power over the live music business....
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