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...“Every single label that only dealt in pop, rock and urban [music], they’re all diving into the [country] space,” said Cris Lacy, co-president of Warner Music’s Nashville division....
...Providence has received bids from Apollo’s HarbourView music fund and Pimco and Warner Music, while Universal Music has looked at the asset, according to people familiar with the matter....
...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...
...comeback How a private equity deal made CAA agents billions Times are tight in Hollywood as a golden age for streaming ends and forces a deep retrenchment among media giants such as Disney, Netflix and Warner...
...After joining YouTube in 2016, Cohen sought to mend the relationship with the large music labels — Universal Music, Sony and Warner — touting a new service to “make them rich”, according to executives involved...
...Getting out in nature is also a big part of Nashville. When I need to clear my head, I often run around Percy Warner Park....
...Her uncle Rob Dickins led the major label Warner Music UK in the 1980s and 1990s. “They’re all working-class East Enders who have done good,” she says. Hard work and thrift were drilled into her....
...To recap: Swift had a falling out with Scott Borchetta, the executive who “discovered” her in a Nashville bar....
...Music, after decades of decline, is back as big business. Warner Music floated last year and Universal Music Group is set to follow suit; owner Vivendi has plans to spin out a bigger stake....
...It then began a 15 minute countdown with music, including the 1964 Petula Clark hit “Downtown”....
...“For one thing it is affordable [to live here] compared to cities like New York, Nashville or Los Angeles. And compared to a city like New York, it’s kind of chill.”...
...Nasdaq has won two of the year’s biggest market debuts, the $2.5bn Royalty Pharma IPO and $2.2bn Warner Music listing, and has a third coming up: Airbnb, the accommodation booking group, which plans to sell...
...IPOs are back with a bang Here’s some news that will be music to investment banker’s ears: Warner Music has hit play again on the US IPO market with its return to public markets nine years after it was...
...Warner Music earlier this month sold $1.9bn of stock. Grocers have been clear corporate winners in the pandemic....
...Just like Apple’s purchase of Shazam enhanced Apple Music, the Fitbit deal could improve Google’s healthcare offerings by acquiring data and expertise, she added....
...Ms Swift erupted at the news that Big Machine Records, the Nashville label that signed her as an unknown 15-year-old, has been sold to Ithaca Holdings, a music investment company run by Scooter Braun, a...
...“Once the music stops, there will be carnage. It might take three to five years, but there has to come a point when we come to our senses.”...
...Warner Music Group, one of the three big record labels, has gone to the High Court of Mumbai to seek an injunction to prevent Spotify from using its music, claiming in a statement that the streaming service...
...Sony Music sold half its stake, generating about $750m. Warner Music has sold all of its stake for $504m....
...Ovitz, who was pushed out of Walt Disney in 1997 after having left CAA, tells of a nostalgic lunch with David Geffen, the music producer: “We were two guys in our seventies, looking to fix what we’d broken...
...The company struck fresh deals with Vivendi-owned Universal Music, Sony Music and Warner Music, which combined control 80 per cent of the world’s music, to get itself on a sounder financial footing ahead...
...One person close to Vevo, the site owned by Universal, Sony Music and Warner Music, which is home to about two-thirds of all official music videos, expects the company’s 250,000 videos could debut on Facebook...
...“You wonder would YouTube be as useful and as a competing force to music or in video had it not been enhanced and improved through the tech resources that Google had?”...
...After more than a year of tense negotiations, Spotify last year struck deals with the world’s largest music labels — Vivendi-owned Universal Music, Sony Music, and Warner Music — to pay them lower royalty...
...Spotify’s vast catalogue of 30m songs due to its licensing deals with Sony, Warner and Universal allows users to access practically any song they want....
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