Jay-Z and Universal Music Group have signed a deal to move the rap mogul's Roc Nation imprint over from Sony/Columbia, according to the New York Times...
The idea of big companies continuing to control their markets, and control the behavior of consumers, continues to march on. Even now, two major deals are proceeding apace, one in telecom and one in the entertainment world.
Madonna has signed a three-album deal with Interscope in which she will earn a base of $1 million per record. The pop star's pact with Interscope and ...
UPDATE: The video has been pulled from Vimeo, making it seem as if UMG has won the most recent round in the back-and-forth war over this video.
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LOS ANGELES -- EMI Group Ltd., the iconic British music company that is home to The Beatles, Coldplay and Katy Perry, is being split and sold for $4.1...
The OohLaLA Festival sashayed onto the scene for a third installment of its French musical showcase. The festival featured a diverse lineup of contemporary talent, each exuding a certain je ne sais quoi.
If you are a recording artist or a manager and have been distributing music on iTunes under a deal with one of the big record labels, pay attention.
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Antonio L.A. Reid has resigned his post as chairman of Island Def Jam Records, and joined the judging panel of "The X Factor." He is responsible for s...
It's refreshing that a young, promising group like Arctic Monkeys and its producers were smart enough to reinvent the brand before it got stale and formulaic, which this project absolutely is not.
Richard Carpenter: "So many people have said to us, 'We can understand every word to your songs,' which, with all the pop and rock records at the time, was difficult to do."
Google Inc's YouTube and Universal Music Group are in talks to create a premium online music video service, sources familiar with the situation said o...
Anthony David, an Atlanta-based neo-soul artist, recently released his first major label album entitled Acey Deucy. He's also got a new fan: Michelle Obama.
Unfortunately for employees at big music labels, it looks as if we're going to be hearing this refrain for a while: Universal Music Group's Island Def...