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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

• Warner Music adds social tools to band sites

  Strategy Eye - 2009-01-13

  Warner Music is adding new social networking capabilities to a number of its artists' sites through a partnership with Cisco Systems. The label will be the first firm to test Cisco's Entertainment Operating System Eos, a white label platform designed to integrate social networking, content management and site administration....

  Tags: EMI Group Plc., Social Media, Cisco Systems Inc., Warner Music Group Corp., Tool, Entertainment Operating System, Social Networking, Sales Strategy, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Sales, MySpace, EMI Group, Facebook, Andrew McDonald

• Future of ground-breaking new free music service in limbo

  - 2008-01-27

  CANNES, France AFP — A ground-breaking move to launch a new free global music download service that could help overcome the music industry's cash crisis faced uncertainty Tuesday. QTRAX, a website offering free legal downloads supported by ads, was launched amid fanfare Sunday at MIDEM, the music world's biggest...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, EMI Group Plc., INTERNET, music, P2P, SALES

• Embattled EMI suspends dividends until 2009

  - 2007-04-18

  LONDON AFP — EMI Group, the world's third-biggest music company but struggling with sliding sales in the United States, said Wednesday that it will pay no more dividends until 2009. The British company meanwhile unveiled long-awaited plans to borrow against its back catalogue of hit songs by artists including...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, dividend, EMI Group Plc., FINANCE, music, SALES

• Apple Helps Reinvent the Content Business

  - 2007-04-02

  Just as surely as Apple didn’t reinvent cellular service with the introduction of the iPhone, it DID accelerate the changes taking place in the music business by the deal it announced today with EMI for the electronic distribution of music WITHOUT copy protection aka DRM or digital rights management. ...

  Tags: Sales strategy, Digital media, Tom Evslin, music, EMI Group Plc., Apple Inc., sales, General, Strategy, Technoloigy, Wisdom

• Beatles to pursue EMI for alleged fraud

  - 2006-09-01

  NEW YORK AFP — The Beatles are to take legal action against EMI/Capitol after receiving the go ahead from a New York judge, accusing the British label of fraud and not paying royalties owed to the Fab Four. "We're delighted," said New York lawyer Paul LiCalsi, representing Paul McCartney, Ringo...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, Beatles, EMI Group Plc., Litigation, SALES

• DataWorks Signs First Seven Value-Added Resellers For Sales & Support of Incuity EMI™ Software

  - 2005-08-02

  MISSION VIEJO, Calif. -- DataWorks Systems, a unit of Incuity Software Inc., today announced the signing of the first seven value-added resellers VARs who will sell and support the company's IncuityTM Enterprise Manufacturing Intelligence EMI software in the U.S., Europe and Asia/Pacific regions.

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• Live 8 DVD set follows big Live Aid release: poor TV coverage may spur disc sales.

  - 2005-07-11

  Going by sales for the Live Aid DVD, EMI is betting the Live 8 sequel should also hit a high note. Released through Warner Music Group's Warner Strategic Marketing, the Live Aid DVD shipped more than 500,000 units to retail since...

  Tags: disc, DVD, EMI Group Plc., sales, TV

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  - 2005-05-27

  Weak global music sales, compounded by the failure of two major bands to get their albums finished on time, explain the further slide in EMI's sales. The two artists - Coldplay and Gorrilaz - have now got their albums out, but weak markets remain. Ho Weak...

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• EMI singing blues as sales drop, stars fade; Cutbacks, digital deals improve outlook.(News)(EMI Group PLC)

  - 2004-12-06

  Byline: anita jain Multiplatinum superstar Janet Jackson received more attention this year for her wardrobe malfunction at the Super Bowl than for the album she released in March, Damita Jo. Hot rock star Courtney Love also made headlines-for her Byline: anita jain...

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