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Listening Post (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
Hedge fund Terra Firma Capital Partners feels like a misnomer these days, standing as it is on shaky musical ground. Before taking over major-label behemoth EMI last year, the private equity player got the gas face from top-shelf British acts...
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The Sun (Free subscription) | 22 hours ago
ROCKERS The Rolling Stones have left record label EMI after 31 years in favour of Universal
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International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | yesterday
Financial terms for the "exclusive, long-term, worldwide" agreement were not disclosed.
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The Daily Swarm (Free subscription) | yesterday
Sir Mick Jagger is to lead The Rolling Stones away from Guy Hands’ EMI , ending a long association with the British record company. The band is expected to sign up with Universal Music, and the deal is all the more valuable because the Stones will control all their releases since the 1970s, including Sticky Fingers, Exile on Main Street and Black and Blue. Sir Mick’s decision — on the eve of his 65th...
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Sky News (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
One of the world's most iconic bands has dealt a body blow to the world's most iconic music label.
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The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 17 hours ago
THE ROLLING Stones yesterday abandoned EMI, the British recording label that has been its home for most of the past 30 years, for American rival Universal Music, in a sharp blow to the private equity operators who bought the UK label last year, writes Ben Fenton.
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USA Today (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Rolling Stones, the world's top earning music act last year, have signed a long-term, exclusive worldwide contract with Vivendi's ...
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Law Blog - WSJ.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Rolling Stones confirmed their long-anticipated defection from record label EMI to Universal Music Group, the latest in a string of departures by major acts from the struggling No. 4 music company.
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Silicon Alley Insider (Free subscription) | yesterday
After months of back and forth , the Rolling Stones have left Guy Hands' EMI for Vivendi's Universal Music Group. Universal gets the band's catalog stretching back to the 1970s ( most of the earlier stuff belongs to Abkco Music ), which is nice. It also gets the rights to release new music, which doesn't mean much, since the Stones haven't had a new hit since... anyone? But the band isn't giving up...
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Idolator (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Rolling Stones haven't been known for sticking around at one label for long, having jumped around from Atlantic to CBS to Virgin in the past. So the announcement that they've signed a long-term deal with Universal Music Group is no particular surprise. What remains to be seen is how the former home of the Stones, EMI, will cope with the loss of most of the band's catalog, which the band will be...
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Daily Mail on Sunday (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Rolling Stones have signed a recording deal worth more than £10million after they were poached from EMI by rivals Universal Music Group.
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Daily Mail (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Rolling Stones have signed a recording deal worth more than £10million after they were poached from EMI by rivals Universal Music Group.
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traderthoughts.com | 01/14/2008
Traderthoughts.com submits: On January 10, Amazon.com announced the addition of Sony BMG Music Entertainment to its repertoire of labels available at Amazon MP3, the DRM-free music store of Amazon.com. With this deal, Amazon is now offering DRM-free MP3s from the four major music labels - EMI, Universal, Warner Music, and Sony BMG - and 33,000 independent labels. This deal puts Apple (iTunes) at a
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