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...To his dismay, his record label at the time, Virgin/EMI, turned it down in 2001. A version of the album leaked in 2011....
...I’d had a modelling contract. I had no experience but I was hired as an A&R co-ordinator for EMI and I have no doubt that was because my bosses found me attractive....
...In those first few years of Jones’s career you can hear a man who might have been Britain’s greatest R&B singer if only he’d kept at it: listen to any live Jones album from those first few years to be persuaded...
.... ★★☆☆☆ ‘We Will Always Love You’ is released by Virgin EMI...
...“I’d never even heard of music publishing,” she says. It was the first step in a three-decade career in music publishing, which handles the songwriting behind the recordings heard on albums....
...‘Now’ is released on Virgin EMI on September 29 Photograph: Keith Mayhew...
...Emeli Sandé Long Live the Angels (Virgin EMI) Emeli Sandé’s debut Our Version of Events was the biggest selling album of the year in the UK in 2012 and the second biggest seller of 2013....
...Banks The Altar (Virgin EMI) The murky emotional material of Jillian Banks’s second album The Altar is clear from the opening track “Gemini Feed” in which the LA singer confronts a “passive-aggressive...
...Empire of the Sun Two Vines (Virgin EMI) Australian duo Empire of the Sun are known for their outlandish imagery. Live shows feature dancers dressed as swordfish....
...Rarely photographed without a beaming smile and a big cigar, Mr Bandier was reunited with EMI Music Publishing three years ago when a Sony-led consortium acquired it for $2.2bn....
...Banks Goddess (Virgin EMI)...
...In the UK, users pay £5 or £10 a month for the ability to play any number of songs from an extensive library of music. Spotify then pays royalties to music labels for each song played....
...His preference for melody over lyrics is such that though he bid for both Warner Music and EMI in the past two years, he had no interest in the publishing arms that represent songwriters....
...Sir Richard Branson said last week he would support a bid by Patrick Zelnik, founder of Naïve Records, to buy back Virgin Records and seek synergies with other parts of Virgin Group, which includes radio...
...He sold Virgin Records, the label behind Mike Oldfield and the Sex Pistols, 20 years ago to EMI, but when Universal Music bid for EMI he pitched to get it back....
...So his decision to splash out £1.2bn to acquire the recorded music business of EMI, home of British rock band Coldplay and US pop starlet Katy Perry, seems a little out of character....
...Music runs through our veins,” he said, adding that EMI could take a larger share of the urban music genre, and that EMI labels such as Parlophone and Capitol Records could become household names again....
...Ms Smith acknowledges that a takeover of EMI recorded music by Warner Music, with which it vies for third place in the charts, could strengthen the industry by giving Universal and Sony a more evenly matched...
...Vivendi has signalled that last week’s €1.4bn purchase of EMI’s recorded music division will probably be its last for a while as it responds to concerns about the €13.3bn net debt built up during its recent...
...“Let’s treat this day like a newborn baby,” she announces in the opening song. Renewal is the theme, but Stone sounds trapped in the past. Joss Stone LP1 (Stone’d Records)...
...: (a) we really cared, and (b) we had actually told the truth.”...
...“Bach was always in time, and not with pop songs!”...
...Mr Hands believed he could securitise EMI Publishing’s catalogue of more than 1.3m song copyrights, and bolt on a number of smaller catalogues....
...The label claims a US market share of 31.7 per cent for the year to date, compared with Sony Music’s 27.6 per cent, Warner Music’s 17.9 per cent and EMI’s 12.1 per cent....
...Few of the pirates want to build a business to take on Universal Music or EMI....
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