On most days I’d be filling this space with rants bashing major record labels—usually EMI or WMG. In fact last week EMI lent more fodder with their pension plan troubles that threaten to bankrupt the company. Last week I had a little fun at the expense of Warner Music (again). I must confess that at...
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Everyone is aware of Warner Music’s claims to be the leaders in the digital music space. But perhaps they should get old school and consider adopting this new business model. I have a funny feeling they will after reading this: Music lovers can now be immortalised when they die by having their ashes baked...
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Welcome to the relaunch of Wayne’s World. My apologies to everyone, but I went on Sabbatical for a while, concentrating mainly on my weekly column in The Music Void. During the last few months I’ve been involved in with some intricate projects in addition to working on my book about my experience over the...
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US record labels and terrestrial radio have been battling for years now about royalty payments. When satellite radio struck a deal with the record industry a few years ago to pay royalties to the owners of master recordings in addition to the performance royalties paid to music publishers, the clock started ticking. It was...
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Edgar Bronfman, Jr. received fair a shake recently in Fred Goodman’s book “Fortune’s Fool: Edgar Bronfman, Jr., Warner Music and an Industry in Crisis“. But unfortunately for the Warner chief, Standard & Poor’s wasn’t able to to find a similar soft spot when they downgraded Warner Music Group stock from “stable” to “negative”. In other...
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Last week there was a lot of news concerning Spotify resulting from some bogus information that was fed to the industry press. I guess some people in the business don’t want to make things easy for them to launch in the US. But why? Rumours have abounded that one of the major labels is pushing...
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