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No One Likes The Music Labels. Who Cares?
Newsflash, courtesy of PR agency Edelman: Young people don't feel warmly about the music industry, presumably because they are harshing their mellow and trying to stop them from pirating music. Leave aside the dubiousness of a PR agency telling other people they have a PR problem, and take a gander at these supposedly damning statistics, via the Guardian: (21/04) Read
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Can bad TV save a bad music career?

Times Colonist | 23/06/08 iMuzique
Janet Jackson will soon be roaming the backstreets and church choirs of America on the hunt for "the next big thing" in pop. Naturally, it's all for ... More

Labels eye variable pricing for digital sales

Reuters | 07/06/08 iMuzique
Arguably the No. 1 item on record labels' to-do list for the year is, "Establish variable pricing for digital downloads." As luck would have it, ... More

A new harmony for music labels, TV

Los Angeles Times | 07/06/08 iMuzique
It's the sobering reality of today's music business -- a record company executive can sign a new act and then tell her, "Keep your day job." That ... More

Music execs stuck in old time rock'n'roll

The Guardian | 11/05/08 iMuzique
It is May 9 1996, and you are a Senior Executive at a Very Big Record Label, in charge of Future Developments. This "internet" thing is being talked ... More

How much should music cost?

Los Angeles Times | 06/05/08 iMuzique
hree interesting developments today on the issue of music pricing and price elasticity, a subject close to my heart. While one label starts flirting with ... More

Bands are getting into bed with consumer brands

Timesonline | 04/05/08 iMuzique
Gabriel Hubert, horn player with Damon Albarn's favourite street-jazz collective, the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, speaks with the unashamed zeal of a convert: ... More

Music can be path to language and math

AP Google | 01/05/08
The challenge was to come up with an idea that can transform public education, particularly in poor communities. The winner: an educator with a passion ... Read

Music biz lawyers wary of labels' new grab

Reuters | 29/12/07
Like it or not, major record companies are expected to continue drafting their artist contracts so that labels share a piece of most -- if not all -- of ... Read

Further lack of harmony between EMI and top acts

Timesonline | 19/12/07
The relationship between EMI and some of its leading artists soured further yesterday as the record label suggested Robbie Williams's potential departure ... Read

David Byrne's Survival Strategies for Emerging Artists — and Megastars

Wired News | 19/12/07
I used to own a record label. That label, Luaka Bop, still exists, though I'm no longer involved in running it. My last record came out through Nonesuch, ... Read

EMI to exit IFPI

Variety | 10/01/08
In a move designed to get major music trade organizations to reorganize, EMI has made the first step to exit the British trade group IFPI. Top operating ... Read

Why (And How) I Just Canceled All My Music Subscriptions

Wired News | 28/12/07
Now that three of the four major labels have decided to sell music without DRM, I've finally decided to drop it too. I've subscribed to Napster, Rhapsody, ... Read