Mark Robinson named Associate Counsel for Warner Music Group
NEW YORK (Warner Music Group) - Warner Music Group (WMG) announced today that Mark Robinson will serve as lead attorney for WMG's new incubator system, overseeing distribution, licensing and new media agreements. Reporting to Dave Johnson, WMG's executive vice president and general counsel, his additional ...
| Orange joins forces with EMI Music UK to offer official true tones and Fireplayer tracks
LONDON, UK (immediate Future/ www.immediatefuture.co.uk) - EMI Music UK has signed an agreement with Orange, the UK's most popular mobile phone service, to offer an even greater selection of music content to its customers. The deal allows Orange customers access to a great range of official true tones ...
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MIDEM Classique & Jazz 2005
CANNES, France (MIDEM Website) - MIDEM 2005, The World's Music Market (Cannes, France, 23-27 January), will once again include MIDEM Classique and Jazz, a complete programme of events, concerts and conferences dedicated to the classical and jazz music sector. MIDEM Classique and Jazz is the only ...
| Indie Music Week returns Spring 2005!
NASHVILLE, TN. (DaCapo Music/ www.dacapomusic.com) - DaCapo Music has announced that the long awaited event Indie Music Week will return this Spring 2005. Indie Music Week will be held in Nashville, Tennessee, at the beautiful Nashville Marriott hotel the weekend of March 11th -12th. The event, geared ...
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Warner Music Group Chairman/CEO Edgar Bronfman Jr. to offer keynote speech at Grammy Foundation's 7th Annual Entertainment Law Initiative Luncheon & Scholarship Presentation
SANTA MONICA, CA. (The Recording Academy) - Warner Music Group chairman and CEO Edgar Bronfman Jr. will deliver the keynote address at the 7th Annual Entertainment Law Initiative (ELI) Luncheon & Scholarship Presentation on Feb. 11, 2005, at the Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills, it was ...
| RCA Nashville hire promotion veteran Ted Wagner
NASHVILLE, TN. (SONY/BMG/ RCA Records) - Mike Wilson, Vice President RCA Records Nashville welcomes Ted Wagner to the staff as Director, Promotion Mid-Atlantic Region. Based in Nashville, Wagner will report directly to Wilson and Keith Gale, Senior Director, National Promotion. 'Ted is a great guy who ...
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Limp Bizkit's drummer John Otto starts Label entitled Scheme Addicts Records
NEW YORK (Limp Bizkit Fans Website) - Limp Bizkit drummer John Otto has started his own label, entitled Scheme Addicts Records. The first two signings include electronic duo Jackal And Hyde and rap duo Red Rock. After spending the past six years winning Grammy nominations, MTV awards, and selling over ...
| UK Sales of Song Downloads overtook those for physical Singles for the first time in history!
LONDON, UK (BPI/ www.bpi.co.uk) - Birth of legal download market promises bright future for singles Year-end retail sales figures show UK album sales reached a new high in 2004 on the back of a renaissance in British talent, according to record companies' trade association the BPI (British Phonographic ...
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Asylum Records partners with three prominent Urban Labels
NEW YORK (Warner Music Group) - Asylum Records, Warner Music Group's (WMG) newly established division designed to provide a variety of services to urban independent music labels and artists, announced it has signed multi-faceted agreements with three independent labels from across the country. Under ...
| MTV Networks and Microsoft announce Strategic Agreement to Deliver Digital Entertainment
REDMOND, WA. (Microsoft/ www.microsoft.com) - Today at 2005 International CES, MTV Networks Inc, a division of Viacom Inc, and Microsoft Corp. announced a strategic agreement to cooperate on several long-term digital media initiatives. The two companies will work together to create new ways for consumers ...
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Eagle Rock Entertainment Goes Hi-Def
NEW YORK (Eagle Rock Ent./www.eaglerockent.com) - Eagle Rock Entertainment and Eagle Vision have established a relationship with Philips Electronics for the use of Eagle Rock's hi-definition DVD footage in the Philips demo reel for the CES convention, as well as other conventions and demonstrations ...
| SIRIUS and Microsoft to collaborate to develop Video Service
NEW YORK (SIRIUS Satellite Radio/ www.sirius.com) - SIRIUS Satellite Radio (Nasdaq: SIRI) today announced at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas that it has selected Windows Media Video 9 for use in SIRIUS' mobile video platform, and has reached an agreement with Microsoft to collaborate in the ...
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Michael D. Fleisher named Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Warner Music Group
NEW YORK (Warner Music Group/ WMG) - Warner Music Group (WMG) announced today that Michael D. Fleisher has been named Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Based in New York, Fleisher will report to WMG Chairman and CEO, Edgar Bronfman, Jr. For five years, Fleisher, 40, served as Chairman ...
| ASCAP Sponsors ATL & L.A. Uplifting Minds II Entertainment Conferences
LOS ANGELES (ASCAP) - ASCAP sponsors the Uplifting Minds II entertainment conferences with the appearance of Ian Burke, Senior Director of Creative Affairs Membership Group for Rhythm and Soul in Atlanta and Jay Sloan, Associate Director of Creative Affairs for the Rhythm and Soul Team in Los Angeles. ...
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Spotlights Booming Synchronisation Sector At Music For Images Day
CANNES, France (MIDEM PR) - MIDEM 2005, The World's Music Market (Cannes, France, 23-27 January) will focus on the growing business of synchronisation in a series of conferences to be held on 25 January. For the second year, the Music for Images events will bring together leading experts from all sides ...
| Announcement about The First Annual Motor City Music Conference (MC2)
DETROIT (Aural Pleasure Music/ www.auralpleasuremusic.com/ www.motorcitymusic.com) - THE FIRST ANNUAL MOTOR CITY MUSIC CONFERENCE (MC2), will include 400 bands showcasing in 40 downtown Detroit venues, a music and lifestyle tradeshow and music industry panels at Cobo Expo Center on April 20-24, 2005. ...
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RealNetworks and Comcast announce expanded Online Music agreement
SEATTLE, WA. (RealNetworks/ www.realnetworks.com) - RealNetworks, Inc, the leading creator of digital media services and software, announced today that it has signed an expanded online music agreement with Comcast. The agreement - which once again brings together the nation's number one broadband provider ...
| Kaydean Media International/LaCalle Records announce 2005 plans
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (Kaydean Media International/ www.kaydeanmedia.com) - LaCalle Records and Kaydean Media International expect to have a busy agenda during 2005 with album releases for Latin Hip-Hop and R&B recording artists, Mente Urbana and Janid, the release of Kaydean's Transformed, film scoring ...
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Napster rocks Nasdaq and begins New Year by opening the Nasdaq Exchange as 'NAPS'
LOS ANGELES (Napster Inc) - Napster, Inc. (Nasdaq: NAPS; formerly ROXI), the biggest brand in digital music, today reiterated its guidance for the third quarter ended December 31, 2004 and is set to begin trading on Nasdaq under its new ticker "NAPS" after opening the exchange in a ceremony at the Nasdaq ...
| Mark Wahlberg Producer heads new Record Label
BOSTON, MA. (www.spiceradio.com) - Hollywood hunk, Mark Wahlberg doesn't like to talk about his Hip-Hop past "Please, don't call me Marky Mark," says the star of such films as 'Perfect Storm,' 'Boogie Nights', and 'The Big Hit.' But Mr. Wahlberg's friend and former music producer/songwriter, M.C. Spice ...
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