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• EMI Finds Music Sales Actually Growing, Despite Terra's Troubles

  PaidContent - 2009-11-23

  Terra Firma may have written off 90 percent of its investment in the label after Citigroup refused to ignore about half the debt it provided for the deal, but - slowly, slowly - EMI Group is turning a corner.Full-year earnings to March 31, 2009, are up 7.4 percent to...

  Tags: EMI Group Plc., Music, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales, Entertainment, Money, Earnings, Companies, EMI, Robert Andrews

• Hulu in Limited Music Video Deal With EMI; How Long Before a Vevo Deal?

  PaidContent - 2009-11-18

  Hulu is doing a limited deal music video deal with EMI, which could be interpreted as a sign of things to come: it is tying up with struggling EMI to feature all of Norah Jones’ music videos, concerts and related material on the site, reports NYT. Jones has a...

  Tags: EMI Group Plc., Video, Music, Hulu, Music Video, Jones, Entertainment, Rafat Ali

• Terra Firma Writes Down 90 Percent of Its EMI Investment, After Failing to Restructure Debt

  PaidContent - 2009-11-17

  Terra Firma’s really been brought down to earth, in more ways than one: after failing to restructure EMI’s debt, it has written down about 90 percent of its investment in the struggling music label, reports FT. This comes after its lending bank Citigroup rejected the PE group’s efforts to...

  Tags: EMI Group Plc., Terra Firma, Investment, Financial Services, Finance, Entertainment, Music, Companies, EMI, Rafat Ali

• BlueBeat's Claim That It Owns The Beatles Falls On Deaf Ears

  PaidContent - 2009-11-06

  You’ve got to marvel at BlueBeat’s chutzpah. The music site that quickly attracted an EMI lawsuit this week for selling Beatles tracks for $0.25-a-pop, even though The Fab Four hasn’t yet authorised online sale, has indeed now been ordered by an LA judge to stop selling those songs and...

  Tags: EMI Group Plc., BlueBeat, Digital Music, Digital Media, Piracy, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Entertainment, Music, Legal, Companies, EMI, Robert Andrews

• After The Encore: EMI Will Sell Digital Concert Recordings At Shows

  PaidContent - 2009-11-04

  With recorded music sales still ebbing away, the only part of the industry that can truly make money from fans, conventional wisdom goes, is the live experience. But now EMI Music is trying to marry the two.It’s setting up Abbey Road Live, a new “live music recording and instant...

  Tags: EMI Group Plc., Corporate Communications, Memory, Marketing, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Entertainment, Music, Companies, EMI, Robert Andrews

• Streaming Service Grooveshark Signs Licensing Deal With EMI

  PaidContent - 2009-10-13

  Streaming music service Grooveshark has signed a licensing agreement with EMI, six months after being sued by the music label, AllThingsD reports. In June, EMI sued Grooveshark, which offers free ad-supported streaming and claims one million registered users. Grooveshark countered at the time by saying that the two parties...

  Tags: EMI Group Plc., Licensing Deal, Grooveshark, Service Management, Entertainment, Music, Legal, Companies, EMI, Joseph Tartakoff

• On the Edge of Default: More Details On a Souring EMI?

  PaidContent - 2009-08-17

  Is EMI Music getting closer to the edge?  That is the growing consensus, based on a souring loan situation.  The latest to pile on is the Wall Street Journal, whose researchers recently sank their claws into this distressed darling.  Most of the facts are review - pending defaults, a...

  Tags: EMI Group Plc., Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Entertainment, Music, Companies, EMI, Digital Music News

• EMI Taps Amazon MP3 For Direct-To-Consumer Retail

  PaidContent - 2009-08-14

  We first reported the fourth-place major music label's launch of its new EMI.com site back in December—an artist showcase, rather than a corporate showroom, offering visitors personalised playlists, widgets and eventual retail options.Now it has emailed users to say it has made some changes to the pseudo-social network, chief...

  Tags: EMI Group Plc., Amazon.com Inc., MP3, Business Structures, Digital Music, Digital Media, Finance, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Entertainment, Music, Companies, Amazon.com, EMI, Robert Andrews

• Ticketmaster moves to bolster global interests

  Financial Times - 2009-08-10

  Ticketmaster Entertainment has recruited Roger Ames, a former senior executive at both Warner Music and EMI, to oversee the expansion of its fragmented international business on the eve of its proposed merger with Live Nation.The move for Mr Ames, whose 34-year career in the record industry included five years...

  Tags: EMI Group Plc., Merger, Ticketmaster Corp., Warner Music Group Corp., Entertainment, CEO, Ticketmaster Entertainment, Mergers & Acquisitions, Investment, Finance, Company News, Financial Times

• Industry Moves: Ondrejka Latest To Leave EMI Music

  PaidContent - 2009-08-07

  I just landed in New York to a burst of messages about the latest change at EMI on the digital side: Cory Ondrejka twiittered late this afternoon that he is leaving: "Thanks EMI for great year and a half, time to return to entrepreneurial roots, last day 21 Aug."...

  Tags: EMI Group Plc., Industry, Music, Entrepreneurship, Management, Entertainment, Industry Moves, Companies, EMI, Staci D. Kramer, Google Inc.