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• Fair Do's? A Million Spotify Streams Earned Gaga $167

  PaidContent - 2009-11-23

  How much money do artists really make from Spotify? According to Swedish paper Expressen, 2009’s standout breakthrough artist Lady Gaga and her songwriter Redone made just SEK1150 (£100.76; $166.56) in songwriting royalties from one million Spotify plays of her hit Poker Face in Sweden in the first five months...

  Tags: Artist, Operational Accounting, Sales Strategy, Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Finance, Sales, Entertainment, Music, Companies, Vivendi, Universal Music Group, Patrick Smith

• Industry Moves: Nokia's Kohl To Head Up Ad Sales At Vevo

  PaidContent - 2009-09-23

  Former Nokia interactive ad sales vet David Kohl has joined Vevo, the music video site that labels like UMG and Sony are hoping will be “the next Hulu.” As EVP of of customer sales and operations, Kohl will lead Vevo’s efforts to secure big brand sponsorships, reporting to CEO...

  Tags: Advertisement, Brand, Nokia Corp., Industry, David Kohl, Branding, Sales Strategy, Marketing, Sales, Advertising, Industry Moves, Entertainment, Music, Social Media, Video, Companies, Google, YouTube, Vivendi, Universal Music Group, Tameka Kee

• Earnings: Vivendi H1 Up On Games, Digital Music Growth

  PaidContent - 2009-09-01

  Fast growing digital music sales and the ongoing popularity of online multiplayer video games helped Vivendi (EPA: VIV) to a recession-beating 15 percent year-on-year revenue growth in the first half of 2009.—Activision Blizzard: The games division continued to power on - revenues up 300 percent from last year to...

  Tags: Game, Revenue, Vivendi Universal, Earnings, Digital Music, Sales Strategy, Operational Accounting, Sales, Finance, Entertainment, Gaming, Movies, Music, Media & Publishing, TV, IPTV, VOD, Money, Companies, Vivendi, Universal Music Group, Countries, Europe, France, Patrick Smith

• Apple joins with labels to promote album sales – Rumour

  Strategy Eye - 2009-07-26

  Apple and the four major record labels are reportedly collaborating on a project to boost album sales on iTunes. The move is an attempt to reinvigorate the album format, which has seen steadily decreasing sales since digital downloads took off. ...

  Tags: Apple Inc., Apple iTunes, Album Sale, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Digital Music, Digital Media, Sales, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, EMI Group, Sony Music, Universal Music Group, Jasper Jackson, Warner Music Group Corp.

• Best Buy Digital Music Store Joins Universal Music Group to Test Sales of DRM-Free Music

  - 2007-08-10

  Best Buy Will Help Customers Unlock the Possibilities for Unprotected Digital Music

  Tags: Best Buy Co. Inc., sales, Universal Music Group

• Universal Music and Video Distribution

  - 2005-02-07

  Universal Music and Video Distribution has named Mike Davis as evp, sales and marketing. Davis most recently served as senior vp of sales and as part of his new responsibilities will oversee all aspects of sales and marketing and report directly to president Jim Urie.

  Tags: sales, Universal Music Group

• Superstars play Santa to hopeful music biz; Blockbuster CDs begin to fill store shelves; 4th quarter gets off to bad start.(Christmas 2004)

  - 2004-11-22

  Byline: anita jain Eminem is playing Santa Claus this year to a long-suffering music industry. Shania Twain is acting as one of Santa's little helpers. Record companies are hoping that such artists can deliver the best Christmas season in years- Byline:...

  Tags: Apple iTunes, Blockbuster Inc., CD, Eminem, record company, sales, Santa Claus, Sony BMG Music Entertainment, Universal Music Group

• Cuts both ways: Universal Music's move was defensive, made out of desperation in the face of rapidly declining sales.(Think Inc.)(Universal Music Group cuts the suggested retail price of most CDs to $12.98)

  - 2003-09-08

  Last week, Universal Music Group made a bold move that could be described as Lieberfarbian. The studio slashed the suggested retail price of most CDs to $12.98. But there are key differences in what Universal did...

  Tags: CD, sales, Universal Music Group

• Universal Music Group to Slash CD Prices to Jump-Start Sagging Sales.

  - 2003-09-04

  By Chris Gaither, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News By Chris Gaither, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

  Tags: CD, CHRIS, sales, Universal Music Group

• Secret's out on new music label.

  - 2002-04-03

  Apr 03, 2002 (The Courier-Mail ABIX via COMTEX) -- The management company behind Brisbane popular music group "Powderfinger" has announced plans to launch its own record label. Secret Service Artist Management will launch Dew Process, an independent label to be supported by Universal Music...

  Tags: Brisbane, music, SALES, U.S. Secret Service, Universal Music Group