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...… When it comes to influencing our drinks choices, what we see in films and hear in music are important parameters Let’s . . . accept that, and also accept with inhibitions the premise that rap music is...
...News round-up Music business scrambles to contain fallout from Kanye West controversy (FT) Germany allows Chinese shipping group a stake in its biggest seaport (FT) European banks’ bumper quarter raises...
...(FT) News round-up Bill Ackman’s Spac close to buying 10% stake in Universal Music (FT) Spac promoter Palihapitiya seeks $800m to target biotech companies (FT) Jack Ma’s Ant Group receives consumer finance...
...Warner Music earlier this month sold $1.9bn of stock. Grocers have been clear corporate winners in the pandemic....
...By offering any song at any time Napster, and its legitimate grandchildren, pulled the LP apart....
...Within weeks he had signed to Interscope and was working with Dre on his 1999 album The Slim Shady LP, which would stay in the Billboard charts for more than 100 weeks....
...Downey believes the $30bn financial-data industry — twice the size of the global music business — is at a similar stage to the US airline sector in the early 1980s, when the cost of flying economy from New...
...The technology companies have realised that, like photo sharing and music apps, news can attract and retain users of their mobile services....
...Music labels will be lining up alongside artists as Tidal shareholders. UMG and Warner Music Group, two of the three major music companies, have negotiated minority stakes in the business....
..., Sony/ATV Music Publishing and Warner/Chappell Music....
...CAA represents some of the biggest stars in film, television and music, with Brad Pitt, Steven Spielberg, Jennifer Lawrence and Will Smith on its books....
...DreamWorks Animation last year acquired Awesomeness TV, a YouTube channel for younger viewers, and has also been linked with a bid for Vevo, the online music channel....
...and music producer Jimmy Iovine and Dr Dre....
...He has embraced risk, most notably when he agreed to produce and release Eminem’s 1999 album, The Slim Shady LP....
...Beats was founded five years ago by Dr Dre and Mr Iovine, who wanted to improve the audio quality for music lovers listening to tracks on digital devices....
...Apple revamped its iOS mobile software, including music streaming....
...The company has built a global network of music and entertainment venues by focusing on regenerating urban areas....
...Though valued below its peak last decade, the company had continued to prosper by diversifying into video and music licensing, even as many of its traditional clients, including newspapers and magazines,...
...It is still wrangling with regulators in Europe and the US over Universal’s £1.2bn bid for EMI’s recorded music division....
...When Citigroup took control of EMI from its private equity owner Terra Firma last year and sold its music publishing business to a group led by Sony, much of the finance came from GSO, the credit arm of...
...Rivals Sony, Universal, Warner Music and BMG – a music publishing joint venture between KKR and Bertelsmann – are all expected to bid....
...The music store is expected to be linked to Google’s existing cloud service, Music Beta, which lets people back up their songs on remote servers and stream them to mobile phones and other devices....
...’s recorded music business....
...“With the acquisition of Bug Music and its vast collection of evergreen and contemporary compositions, BMG further establishes itself as a leading music rights management company,” said Hartwig Masuch, BMG...
...The prime example is Mr Hands’s Terra Firma, which lost £1.75bn on the takeover of music group EMI and in the years after the financial crisis halved its staff to 60 people, although it has recently started...
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