It’s been a close fought battle… but major pips its rivals to acquire Dutch dance label
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Category archives: Warner Music Group
Warner posts biggest revenues in over 14 years as Q3 streaming cash jumps 59%
Both Warner’s recorded music and overall revenues hit historic highs in quarter
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Lyor Cohen has changed his tune on YouTube since 2009
In 2009, Cohen said YouTube didn’t pay enough compensation. What’s changed?
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Ed Sheeran Desperately Trying to Repair Fan Relationships as Facebook Rips Down Cover Videos
Ed Sheeran fans are making Facebook cover videos. Warner Music Group, Ed Sheeran’s label, is having them ripped down. Ed Sheeran is personally apologizing and getting them reinstated. Maybe there’s a better way? We’ve written a lot about the messy war zone surrounding Facebook cover videos. Presently, Facebook doesn’t have the proper publishing licenses (like […]
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Warner to launch ‘hundreds of virtual reality experiences’ with MelodyVR deal
Deal follows UMG’s push into VR earlier this year
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Streaming drives Warner Music’s biggest annual revenues in 8 years
Major music company posts more than $3.2bn in sales to end of September
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Ole Obermann officially appointed to head Business Development at Warner
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Avenged Sevenfold Releases Its Seventh Album on the Wrong Label
Avenged Sevenfold: We want out! Warner: NO! Today’s a happy day for American heavy metal band Avenged Sevenfold. They’ve just released their new album, The Stage. This marks the seventh album released by the group from Huntington Beach, California. They celebrated the released by staging a performance on top of Capitol Records. You could view […]
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UMG, Sony, and WMG Team Up With Nordic World For Spotify-Based Music Competition
The three major labels, University, Sony, and Warner, in their push to find the next top singing sensation, have teamed up with both Spotify and Norwegian-based Nordic World in The Stream, a brand-new musical talent show in Norway. This isn’t just a Norwegian American Idol, with The Stream’s premise seeming simple enough. According to a […]
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Why Does Spotify Pay Out Such A Terrible Per-Stream Rate? The Answer Is More Complicated Than You Think
Open access to the internet is supposed to allow users to pick and choose what kind of content they’d like to receive, whether it’s mainstream content or content made by independent artists and developers. This should be even more true in the music industry online. But apparently, not everything is all fun and games in […]
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