Warner Music Group Files Registration Statement With the SEC for Initial Public Offering
NEW YORK (Warner Bros.) - Warner Music Group announced today that its parent company, Warner Music Group Corp., has filed a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission in connection with a proposed initial public offering of its common stock. Goldman, Sachs & Co. and Morgan Stanley ...
| Magnatune and Hana Micron Launch TunePlug Portable USB Drive With Pre-Loaded MP3 Music From Leading Independent Artists
BERKELEY, CA. (Landis Communications Inc./ www.magnatune.com) - Online record label Magnatune and Samsung spinoff Hana Micron today launch TunePlug - a reusable USB Flash Drive that will feature 10 complete albums from 10 leading Magnatune artists as MP3 files. The newest way to distribute music, TunePlug ...
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Cory Shields Named Senior Vice President, Communications, Sony BMG Etnertaiment
NEW YORK (Sony BMG) - Cory Shields has been named Senior Vice President, Communications, SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT, it was announced today by Andrew Lack, Chief Executive Officer, SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT, to whom he reports. Mr. Shields is based in New York. In his new role, Mr. Shields will ...
| WEA Promotes Adam Mirabella to Senior Vice President, e-Commerce
NEW YORK (WMG/ WEA) - WEA Corp., Warner Music Group's (WMG) U.S. sales and retail marketing company, today announced the promotion of Adam Mirabella to Senior Vice President, e-Commerce. He was previously Vice President, e-Commerce. Mirabella will continue to report to WEA Corp.'s President and CEO, ...
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Panama's customs service signs anti-piracy agreement with IFPI Latin America
LONDON, UK (IFPI) - Panama's Customs organisation has signed a cooperation agreement with IFPI Latin America that will step up anti-piracy actions in Panama, and help stop the movement of pirate traffic into Latin America. Panama, a music market with a tradition of talented artists and songwriters, ...
| David Fitzgerald Upper To Director Of Sales For The RCA Label Group Nashiville
NASHVILLE, TN. (SONY BMG) - Gasper Milazzo, Senior Director, National Sales, RCA Label Group - Nashville, announces the promotion of David Fitzgerald to Director of Sales, RLG. Based in Nashville, Fitzgerald will report directly to Milazzo. Commenting on the promotion, Milazzo said, 'David's creativity ...
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Nashville Radio Personality to Speak at Indie Music Week
NASHVILLE, TN. (IMW/ DaCapo Music) - Indie Music Week has announced that Kelly Ann Monahan, news correspondent for Nashville's HOT AC station, Star 97, will be participating as an Indie Music Week panelist. IMW, taking place in Nashville March 11-12, will feature three industry panels of Major and ...
| DualDisc to Be Launched in Europe This Spring
LONDON, UK (5.1 Entertainment Group) - Los Angeles based music company, 5.1 Entertainment Group's Chairman, John Trickett, announced during news briefings at Dolby's London headquarters today, the European launch of the CD/DVD hybrid, DualDisc. The announcement marks the first ever release of DualDisc ...
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Clear Channel Radio Endorses Musicrypt's DMDS
NEW
YORK (Musicrypt) - Musicrypt Inc. the industry's leading developer of
user-friendly and secure media distribution, today announced it has
received the endorsement of Clear Channel Radio, the largest radio
broadcaster in North America, with over 1200 radio stations in the
United States. Musicrypt's ...
| MSN Music & MediaBay Make Historic Shows From Golden Age of Radio Available for Download Online for First Time
REDMOND, WA. (MediaBay Inc./ www.msn.com) - More than 1,400 programs from the Golden Age of Radio are available for download for the first time thanks to an exclusive alliance between MSN Music and MediaBay Inc. (Nasdaq: MBAY), with its extraordinary RadioClassics catalog. The shows from RadioClassics, ...
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Global Mobile Music Market to Reach $9bn by 2009
NEW
YORK (Juniper Research) - The increasing popularity of full-track
downloads and ring-back tones will help push mobile music revenues to
more than $9.3 billion by 2009, according to a new report from Juniper
Research. While the downloads of mobile ringtones and
realtones will comprise the ...
| Doc Hollywood Kidz to Acquire Doc Hollywood Records
LOS ANGELES (Doc Hollywood Kidz) - Doc Hollywood Kidz will acquire Doc Hollywood Records, it was announced today by DHYK CEO, Steven Saxton. Under the terms of the new arrangement, Doc Hollywood Records will focus on acquiring and releasing soundtracks to high profile films, such as the company's recently ...
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BMI and mobZilla Announce Licensing Agreement for Mobile/PC Streaming Music Service
LOS ANGELES (BMI/ www.mobzilla.com) - U.S. performing rights organization BMI and La Jolla, CA-based wireless media company mobZilla, LLC, today announced an agreement covering the performing rights for BMI musical works for mobZilla's mobile phone streaming music service. MobZilla also announced its ...
| ASCAP Signs Ana Cristina to Roster of Nation's Top Songwriters And Composers
MIAMI, FL. (Ana Christina International/ Boden PR) - Today, the American Society of Composers, Authors and Songwriters (ASCAP) announces the appointment of Ana Cristina to their roster of top songwriters and composers. The 19 year-old Miami native, who signed with Sony Discos at the age of 15 and not ...
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The Connex List Awards Its 2005 Branding and Marketing Assignment to OceanGroup
NEW YORK (OceanGroup) - OceanGroup, a creative intelligence consultancy that helps companies transform their brands, has been selected by HipHop entrepreneurs, The Wonder TwinZ, to envision, execute and manage their branding, marketing and business development programs. The program, which will focus ...
| USA Songwriting Competition Winners To Appear At SXSW
NEW
YORK (Top40 Charts) USA Songwriting Competition will showcase eight
winners at South By South West (SXSW), the largest music conference in
the United States. Patrice Pike, the overall top prize winner of the
2004 Songwriting Competition will headline the showcase. Here are the
list of performers:~Matson ...
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Editor Of EQ Magazine To Speak At Indie Music Week
NEW
YORK (IMW) Indie Music Week has announced that Mitch Gallagher, Editor
of EQ Magazine, will be participating as an Indie Music Week panelist.
IMW, taking place in Nashville March 11-12, will feature three industry
panels of Major and Independent A&R, promoters, label executives,
producers, ...
| The Record Industry is Terminally Ill
BOSTON, MA. (Berklee Press/ www.berkleepress.com) - In THE FUTURE OF MUSIC: Manifesto for the Digital Music Revolution, David Kusek, a music industry entrepreneur and Vice President at the Berklee College of Music, and Gerd Leonhard, music futurist and founder of ThinkAndLink, analyze the music industry ...
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WEA Announces Exclusive Distribution Agreement With Legendary Savoy Label Group
NEW YORK (WMG) - WEA Corp., Warner Music Group's U.S. sales and retail marketing company, announced today that it will be the exclusive distributor for the award-winning Savoy Label Group (SLG) effective in May 2005. SLG is the United States arm of Japan's oldest record company Columbia Music Entertainment ...
| EMI Music Releases First 'DTS Signature Series' Surround Titles
AGOURA HILLS, CA. (EMI Group) - DTS and EMI Music have announced release dates for the first DVD-Audio (DVD-A) music titles in the "DTS Signature Series" collection from EMI. Representing some of the top artists from EMI's catalog as well as current releases, the new "DTS Signature Series" DVD-As include ...
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