EMI

The EU have just approved Sony Music’s takeover of EMI Music Publishing despite indie music organisations across Europe warning that it gives them too much influence. Sony Music now own a 100% stake in EMI…

Sony are taking a massive controlling stake in major music publishers EMI after acquiring a giant 60% share on top of their existing 30%. Sony Corporation are making a massive investment to take over a…

With one of the biggest song catalogues in the world EMI Music Publishing are up for sale with major labels zeroing in. EMI Music Publishing have put themselves up for sale, selling their 2.2 million…

American authorities are currently investigating a scandal in which $3.5 billion of Malaysia’s government sovereign wealth was misappropriated, involving an investor involved in Sony’s buyout of EMI. In 2012 Sony made a deal that put…

A2IM has shared the 2013 SoundScan statistics. This shows that the major label market share of albums in 2013 compared to 2012. Independent Labels now have 34.6% U.S. of the overall recorded music market. Since…

There are lots of reports this morning that the Universal purchase of EMI will be approved this week by the European Commission. The combined company is being forced to divest itself of Parlaphone. Additionally, there…

Sony has finally filed in Europe to merge their company and EMI publishing. The deal was confirmed back in November last year and is priced at $2.2 billion. A representative of the Sony group, which…

EMI has just licensed their electronica catalogue to Beatport. It seems like EMI are now going to license their catalogue to pretty much anyone at any price.

UK major label EMI this week railed against Apple’s iTunes in the body of its latest annual financial statement. EMI are unanimous in their praise for Apple’s achievements in online music sales, but resent the huge slice of the music sales market the company has carved out.

There are a lot of reports floating around that EMI is two weeks away from announcing some huge changes! The key change wil be a drastic reorganisation which would lead to loads more layoffs.