I can handle things! I’m smart! Not like everybody says… like dumb… I’m smart and I want respect! –Fredo Corleone So much has happened in the business lately that I thought it would be a good idea to give credit to those who have excelled in entertaining us…an acknowledgement of sorts to the biggest...
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The clouds parted earlier today and the hand of Jesus came down and touched the head of Junior Bronfman, resulting in a religious conversion not seen since Katie Holmes converted to Scientology to marry Tom Cruise. On an earnings call today in which he discussed WMG’s widening losses for the quarter, Junior said that...
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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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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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This last weekend was brutally hot on the US east coast, certainly too hot to be jogging or bicycling or even grocery shopping. So I spent the weekend on the couch reading Fred Goodman’s new book, ‘Fortune’s Fool: Edgar Bronfman, Jr., Warner Music, and an Industry in Crisis’. I had previously written that, based...
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