To that end, 45sound has the ear of several companies - including Sony Music-owned RCA Records.
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Universal Music Group, Sony Music and Warner Music Group are pumping money into Latin music.
The X Factor isn't exclusively tied to Sony Music, the company that distributes Cowell's SyCo label.
Having Sony Music back inside the group will help to pay for much of this.
Syco is a joint venture between Simon Cowell and Sony Music Entertainment, with offices in London and Los Angeles.
Steve Gordon, former Director of Business Affairs for Sony Music, blames big record labels for obstructing music subscription deals.
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Rick Dobbis, president of Sony Music International, said piracy was a global issue that affected both artists and record companies.
America has Vevo, a music-video website linked to YouTube and owned in part by Universal Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment.
In late 2011, she produced her first album titled "Lose or Win, " which she recorded in Mexico under the Sony Music label.
British albums are "translating" more successfully in other countries, agrees Ged Doherty, head of Sony Music UK and chairman of the Brit Awards.
Kiip has more than 40 brands on board, including American Apparel, Best Buy, Disney, Dr Pepper, PepsiCo, Popchips, Sony Music, 1-800-Flowers.com and Wrigley.
As well as approaching Sony Music, Mr Davies has also met the chief executive of UK Trade and Investment about the centenary concert.
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The story notes that Vevo offers music from three of the four major music labels, including Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment and EMI Music.
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McCready sold 1.8 million records during her career, 1.2 million of which were her first, recorded with BNA Records (now a label of Sony Music).
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The agreements are with Sony Music Entertainment, EMI Music, Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group, and more than 150 independent distributors, aggregators and music publishers.
Universal and Sony Music in the United Kingdom are making new singles available to download and buy on the same day they debut on the radio.
Andy Schuon, president and chief executive officer of Pressplay, an online music service formed as a joint venture of Sony Music Entertainment and Universal Music Group.
The music of Vivendi Universal and Sony Music will be available - for a fee - through the Yahoo website, the world's most widely used portal.
Mr. Aspinall was replaced as Apple Corps' CEO by Jeff Jones, a former executive of Sony Music's well-respected Legacy division, which handles back-catalog releases for Sony Corp.
Universal Music and Sony Music are both working with their stars to remix songs into shorter versions, up to two minutes long, that can be sold through mobile phones.
Today 25% or so is licensed from the likes of Sony Music, which gets royalties, and the Cartoon Network, which receives an annual fee and a cut of sales.
In 2005 it was discovered that global recorded music company Sony BMG, now renamed Sony Music Entertainment, had included what amounted to spyware on some of the CDs they marketed.
Mariah Carey modeled her opulent 1993 wedding to Sony Music chief Tommy Mottola after the nuptials of Prince Charles and Lady Diana--replete with tiara and 27-foot train on her wedding dress.
"This revision will reduce the spread of copyright infringement activities on the internet, " said the body's chairman Naoki Kitagawa, who is also chief executive of Sony Music Entertainment Japan, earlier this year.
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Clarkson is, of course, a Sony music artist.
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"We are excited to be working with Amazon to offer consumers the ability to enjoy their music anywhere-on any device-with Cloud Player, " said Dennis Kooker, President, Global Digital Business and U.S. Sales, Sony Music Entertainment.
The firm has inked agreements with Universal Music Group, EMI Group (which Universal has just signed a deal to buy) and Sony Music Entertainment, but has been unable to do so with Warner Music Group.
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Mr Callaby's design was chosen "because it was bold, adventurous and you could see the sheer effort he'd put into creating a stand-out piece of work", said the judges from Sony Music and London-based creative agency FOAM.
Last week, it was reported that entertainment powerhouse Sony is looking to lease out real estate in its New York headquarters -- this after its Sony Music Entertainment arm dissolved longtime record labels (Jive, Arista) into one (RCA) for cost cutting measures.
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