Universal Music Group, Sony Music and Warner Music Group are pumping money into Latin music.
The Black Keys rock band is signed to Nonesuch Records, a label owned by Warner Music Group.
Atlantic Records' British arm, which is owned by Warner Music Group, increasingly uses data to hone marketing campaigns.
Angel investors include Rajesh Sawhney, president of Reliance Entertainment of India and Alex Zubillaga (formerly of Warner Music Group).
"Vinyl will definitely outlast CDs because of the resonance, the sound, " predicts Lyor Cohen, chief of recorded music at Warner Music Group.
News Corp. is reportedly talking to major record companies like Vivendi and Warner Music Group about launching an online music store through MySpace.
Sony Entertainment Group and Warner Music Group, though its catalogue on a macroscopic level seems undifferentiated from the likes of Rdio, for example.
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By early January 2008, a few months after Amazon MP3 launched, the three other major labels--Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group, and Sony BMG--dropped DRM.
But they are all signed to the Warner Music Group, an indication that artist development might once again become a priority for the major labels.
Ironically, the opportunity to own his masters was what convinced him to take the Def Jam gig over a similar job at Warner Music Group.
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.
Customers include Twitter, Warner Music Group, Humana, Stanford University, Mercedes-Benz and the New York MTA. Acquia has a number of 7-figure clients, Erickson notes.
Groove Mobile also powers the music store for Orange Mobile in the U.K., and features music from labels such as EMI, Warner Music Group , V2 and Beggars Group.
The back catalogs of Warner Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment, for example, have been converted to hi-res although much of it is not yet available for sale.
In late December, Amazon.com added Warner Music Group to the growing number of labels that sell music free of copy protections on Amazon's Amazon MP3 digital music store.
Big music companies like Vivendi's Universal Music Group, Sony-BMG Music Entertainment, Warner Music Group and EMI Group are already experiencing a sharp decline in sales of compact discs.
Apparently, Sony BMG Music has already expressed interest in being a "potential partner, " and Universal is now trying to convince Warner Music Group to come on board as well.
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In March, Parker surprised commentators by trying to buy Warner Music Group one of the big record labels that sued Napster, and had a hand in shutting it down.
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Warner Music Group is cutting 400 jobs, or about 10% of its workforce, as part of a restructuring to focus more of its energies on digital distribution and other emerging technologies.
News Corp. is reportedly talking to major record companies like Vivendi and Warner Music Group (nyse: WMG - news - people ) about launching an online music store through MySpace.
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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American rival Warner Music Group, which had been expected to make a counter-bid for EMI last year, has also attempted to restructure in order to stem declining compact disc sales and capture more digital revenues.
Big music companies like Vivendi's Universal Music Group, Sony-BMG Music Entertainment, Warner Music Group (nyse: WMG - news - people ) and EMI Group are already experiencing a sharp decline in sales of compact discs.
In late December, Amazon.com added Warner Music Group (nyse: WMG - news - people ) to the growing number of labels that sell music free of copy protections on Amazon's Amazon MP3 digital music store.
Now All Things Digital reports that Parker has joined a consortium looking to buy Warner Music Group, one of the major mainstream labels that sued Napster for copyright violation and had a hand in shutting the site down.
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According to documents received by Forbes.com, Warner Music Group has spent months negotiating with networking giant Cisco Systems to use a nascent technology called Cisco Eos to simplify the music company's management of a large catalog of band Web sites.
Users won't be able to snag music from the best-known names in music, because none of the major music companies, like Vivendi Universal 's Universal Music Group or Warner Music Group, are letting their stuff be used on the service.
On the other hand, one might also want to consider that in September, Baidu's music accessibility got slammed by a quadumvirate of Warner Music Group, Vivendi Universal 's Universal Music Group, EMI Group and Sony BMG (half-owned by Sony), which all filed suits against the Chinese e-commerce firm (see: " Bronfman Leads Music Bigs In Baidu Piracy Lawsuit").
Users won't be able to snag music from the best-known names in music, because none of the major music companies, like Vivendi Universal 's (nyse: V - news - people ) Universal Music Group or Warner Music Group (nyse: WMG - news - people ), are letting their stuff be used on the service.
Spotify is a music service that allows unlimited streaming of songs from the Big Four music labels, Sony, Warner Music, Universal Music Group and EMI, and also offers a premium, add-free service via subscription.
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