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...“But the fundamentals of the music business haven’t changed,” he added. “For years we were doing this with very few people involved. It was a niche . . . music royalties have always been esoteric.”...
...I also talked to Helen Thomas, FT business columnist. Helen has reported on the City and British business for many years....
...Rabe has set a revenue target of €24bn by 2026, backed by €5bn-€7bn of investment; the group has ambitious growth plans for its BMG music rights business, RTL’s bundled music and streaming service in Germany...
...And as people are playing more concerts and as pubs and bars are back open again, there’ll be more music that’s getting played. So maybe that improves things....
...[MUSIC PLAYING] Lilah RaptopoulosI think of the soundsuits as kind of the opposite of an invisibility cloak....
...And then everybody kind of runs away and looks at this and decides that, you know, do we really trust what Google is doing?...
...We will do our best to make the amendment as soon as possible....
...And although it is still operational in France, the business has developed so well in the UK that Cato has recently returned to England with his family: he was awarded a rare honour by the National Trust...
...The big implication of that is you can’t trust World Bank data. And as the report suggests that Kristalina Georgieva was involved in that....
...In the age of streaming, analysis company Music Business Worldwide estimates the majors — Universal, Sony and Warner Music — are making $1m an hour through streaming services such as Spotify, which is driven...
...Words and Music administers the Big Deal catalogue as well as several third party catalogues....
...Napster may have “disrupted” the old music publishing business model, but that did not make it a good investment. Will Spotify prove to have greater longevity? Will it ever make any money?...
...Today we’re publishing a new Remit for the independent Low Pay Commission....
...a deviation before a return to the old ways of doing things....
...Makers and Takers: The Rise of Finance and the Fall of American Business, by Rana Foroohar, Crown Business, RRP$30 Finance is a good servant but a bad master....
...He was the Patient Zero of Internet music piracy, but almost no one knew his name. Over the course of more than three years I endeavored to gain his trust....
...At Bertelsmann, he made it his mission to inject new energy into the 165-year-old family-owned business that began by publishing hymn books....
...It has been quite a year for his young business....
...Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys, by Viv Albertine, Faber RRP£14.99 The title encompasses Albertine’s outlook as a London teenager....
...Prime ministers, generals, business chiefs? They’ve all been greeted with blank stares....
...Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys, by Viv Albertine, Faber £14.99 “Anyone who writes an autobiography is either a twat or broke,” says Albertine, who is “a bit of both”....
...His elucidation of works such as the St Matthew Passion makes you want to listen to the music afresh....
...Also there were creative-art collectives that were doing interesting things in visual art, theatre, film, music....
...since the ownership of EMI Music Publishing passed to the Sony consortium....
...What Paltrow is doing, says branding expert Stone, is “building trust”. He adds: “If Paltrow asked companies to pay her to appear on Goop she would lose her authenticity....
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