Vivendi signed a deal to buy the recorded music division of EMI, which holds the rights to the Beatles, from its owner Citigroup, the companies said Friday.
A court ruling this week clears up some gray areas in cloud music.
Lovers of high-fidelity audio are about to get some satisfaction.
For Sunday night's Grammy winners, nominees and just about anyone tangentially related to the music industry in Los Angeles, the actual ceremony was only a jumping off point.
OK Go frontman Damian Kulash is a rock star, a music video auteur, and a YouTube sensation--and, now that his band has split with British music giant EMI, a businessman. OK Go, whose treadmill dance video has been viewed more than 50 million times, announced in March that it was leaving EMI's Capitol Records and launching its own label, Paracadute. While Kulash, 34, doesn't harbor Damon Dash-level ambitions (Paracadute employs a handful of full-time employees and hasn't signed any other acts), he does have a bold take on the future of the music industry.
The iconic Abbey Road Studios made famous by the Beatles are being declared a national historic landmark, British Culture Minister Margaret Hodge announced Tuesday.
Media reports say the London studio where the Beatles recorded may be for sale. CNN's Sasha Herriman reports.
The iconic Abbey Road music studios made famous by the Beatles are not for sale, the music label that owns them said Sunday, after days of speculation that they were.
Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber has expressed an interest in buying London's famed Abbey Road Studios after music company EMI reportedly put the building where the Beatles recorded most of their albums up for sale.
In a cramped dressing room littered with potato chips and half-empty $6 bottles of wine, the rap-rock band Hollywood Undead gets ready for its performance at a rock festival in Noblesville, Ind.
Eric Schmidt's presence at a swanky music industry gathering was an illustration of how far digital technology has come and the power it has amassed.
CNN's Eunice Yoon and Kevin Voigt talk about why the Beatles mean so much to the music industry.
Free downloads nearly killed the record business. A generation of youthful customers got used to the idea that music should be given away. Compact disc sales fell around 15% annually year after year.
EMI, one of the world's largest record companies, is considering turning over its distribution, sales and marketing operations in the United States to a rival in an attempt to cut its extensive losses, music industry sources said Friday.
Anthony Volodkin ran into trouble last year when he tried to raise money for the Hype Machine, a digital music startup.
Until recently, Elio Leoni-Sceti spent his days thinking about how to get consumers to buy more Mop & Glo. Now he has to sell them more Coldplay albums.
Fans of saxophonist Jason Rae leave messages and send prayers online
Police are awaiting toxicology reports to explain the death of the husband of Grammy-nominated British singer Corinne Bailey Rae.
CNN's Becky Anderson looks at how a musical revolution is changing the social fabric of Venezuela.
When Brian Burton, a little known DJ operating under the name of Danger Mouse, released "The Grey Album" in 2003, he brought to mainstream attention a new form of musical genre made possible by the advance of modern technology and the Internet. He also inadvertently sparked a debate about record labels' monopoly of music ownership.
Artists fear shake-up of music group EMI will impact record sales. CNN's Jim Boulden reports.
The Rolling Stones announced Thursday they have signed a deal to release the soundtrack to their Martin Scorsese-directed concert film through Universal Music Group
Web retailer Amazon.com Inc. launched its much-anticipated digital music store Tuesday with nearly 2.3 million songs, none of them protected against copying
Apple Inc. said on Tuesday it would offer the entire solo catalog of John Lennon on iTunes in its second such deal with one of the Beatles, who have been among the highest-profile holdouts to put tunes online.
Warner Music Group on Tuesday posted a quarterly loss that was wider than expected as the company contends with rapidly dropping music sales.
The buyout deals keep on coming, a sign of just how white-hot the market is for mergers and acquisitions.
Stocks turn mixed, giving back early gains, after a weaker-than-expected manufacturing report countered early enthusiasm about the day's corporate deals.
EMI Group has agreed to make its music catalogue available through Apple Inc.'s iTunes store without copy protection.
EMI Group PLC. announced a deal Monday with Apple Inc.'s iTunes to sell its music catalog without the anti-piracy protection known as DRM restrictions.
Click on the iTunes music store and punch in "Beatles" under artist search. More than 50 albums will pop up, including Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops Play the Beatles, but none are the real dea...
Click on the iTunes music store and punch in "Beatles" under artist search. More than 50 albums will pop up, including Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops Play the Beatles, but none are the real deal. Fans wishing to download the actual Fab Four in MP3 format have to search peer-to-peer sites like Limewire for unlicensed songs they can listen to free.
A key tenet of life in Silicon Valley is that the technology industry is different from other businesses.
Jeff Kwatinetz, CEO of the Beverly Hills management company known as the Firm, made the rounds to several major record companies with a proposition earlier this year. His client, the rapper-actor ...
CNNMoney: Looking for a bounceupdated: Thu Jul 27 2006 05:26:00
A positive tone from corporate results could push U.S. stocks higher when trading begins Thursday.
The chances of a deal between Warner Music Group and EMI Group happening anytime soon took a serious blow Thursday morning.
Wall Street is betting on a big music industry merger. But investors who have been aggressively bidding up shares of Warner Music Group and EMI Group may find themselves singing a sad song if a deal doesn't pan out.
CNNMoney: Stocks brace for Benupdated: Wed Jun 28 2006 09:41:00
Stocks rose Wednesday but investors had their eyes trained on Thursday's Federal Reserve meeting and policy statement.
CNNMoney: Stocks bounce backupdated: Wed Jun 28 2006 09:08:00
Stocks ticked higher early Wednesday, a day before the release of the Federal Reserve's highly anticipated policy statement.
Stocks were pointing to a good start on news of a takeover battle between two independent recording companies, as the Federal Reserve begins a much anticipated two-day meeting.
Stocks investors will be watching oil prices and the weekly report on U.S. fuel supplies looking for direction Wednesday
NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - The Arctic Monkeys, Britain's latest "it' band, share a pretty amusing take on the current state of the recording industry in the song "A Certain Romance."
showbuzzupdated: Fri Sep 09 2005 15:38:00
Aaron Neville says he hasn't been back to New Orleans, but images of flood waters show his native city has turned into a "toxic gumbo."
NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - The Rolling Stones have fully embraced the digital music bandwagon. Is it time for the Beatles to do the same?
Rock 'n' roll pioneer Fats Domino was among the thousands of New Orleans residents plucked from rising floodwaters, his daughter said Thursday.
Having endured pitfalls and successes in more than two decades as a band, Great White now plays with purpose two years after a blaze killed 99 of their fans and one of their own.
Britain's EMI, the world's third-largest music group, warned on profits Monday following delays in releasing two of its major albums.
Eliot Spitzer has rattled Wall Street's cage with investigations into stock research, mutual funds and insurance sales, but the New York Attorney General isn't done: now he's turning his attention to record labels, according to a published report Friday.
New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer is expected to announce today a settlement with the music industry under which recorded-music and music- publishing companies will make a good-faith effort to distribute $50 million in unpaid royalties to thousands of unknown musicians, along with a number of well- known performers, including David Bowie, Sean "Puffy" Combs, and Dolly Parton , Tuesday's Wall Street Journal reported.
Jeff smith was between jobs a few years back and pitched in to help his father, Joe, move to a new house in Beverly Hills. Joe--a former chairman of Warner Bros. Records, Capitol EMI Records, and E...
London music giant EMI announced 1,500 job cuts Wednesday, about a fifth of the work force in its recorded music division.
Not quite three years ago, Sir Colin Southgate was the toast of British industry. As chairman of EMI, the $5.4 billion music giant behind the Beatles and the Spice Girls, he'd saved a national inst...
When Advent attempted to buy British bookstore chain Waterstone's earlier this year, the U.S. venture capital firm faced a potentially bloody and protracted conflict with EMI Music, the giant recor...
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