Just came across this:
Trans World, the owner of the perplexingly acronymed last-music-chain-standing FYE, announced its fourth-quarter earnings earlier this week, and the news was pretty bad: The company had a 14%…
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Just came across this:
Every week in the “Shhhh-it!” AnonIMous Super-Secret Music-Biz Interview Series (S-I!AS-SM-BIS for, uh, short) we interview a grizzled music industry veteran via the topsy-turvy world of instant…
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Here’s a great post:
British music retailer Zavvi—a.k.a. the chain once known as Virgin Megastore, and now known as “those record shops that are teetering on the edge while in bankruptcy protection”—will…
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This is an interesting post:
British music retailer Zavvi—a.k.a. the chain once known as Virgin Megastore, and now known as “those record shops that are teetering on the edge while in bankruptcy protection”—will…
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This is an interesting post:
British music retailer Zavvi—a.k.a. the chain once known as Virgin Megastore, and now known as “those record shops that are teetering on the edge while in bankruptcy protection”—will…
The entire post can be seen here.
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Just came across this:
The never-ending slough both the people who deal with music directly (making it, releasing it, booking it) and those of us who cover it for a living have been dealing with is made even worse by the…
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Stacy told us about:
BMG Music Club, the last of the old “12 CDs for a penny” clubs from the old days, which taught many a CD-crazy youngster about what a “collection agency” was back in the day thanks to its strategy…
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Mary sent us a link to this:
On Sunday, the New York Times reported that all videos using songs owned by Warner Music Group were pulled from YouTube. Talks between WMG and Google (YouTube’s owners) had broken down (WMG is…
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Just came across this:
On Sunday, the New York Times reported that all videos using songs owned by Warner Music Group were pulled from YouTube. Talks between WMG and Google (YouTube’s owners) had broken down (WMG is…
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John sends us:
On Sunday, the New York Times reported that all videos using songs owned by Warner Music Group were pulled from YouTube. Talks between WMG and Google (YouTube’s owners) had broken down (WMG is…
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