Tag: EMI

As Spotify -- the popular online music service -- nears profitability in Europe, the situation isn't quite as rosy across the pond. With Spotify's hopes of a 2010 U.S. launch officially dashed, the company is still facing an uphill climb in the States. The sticking point, according to sources cited by The Telegraph, may be financial demands from the U.S. record labels. Concerned that users will ...

I love my Grooveshark pro subscription - I paid for it a while back when the new VIP preview went live and I've never regretted it. With more new features rolling out and a major announcement today, the service keeps getting better and better. Today's big news: EMI Music and EMI Music Publishing have come on board to "create a mutually sustainable deal which represents the future of digital ...

I'm a big fan of the streaming music site Grooveshark. It's a great way to listen to practically any song and share new music with friends. EMI doesn't have any love for Grooveshark, though: the label is suing the service. It's not clear what the claims in the suit are, yet, but Grooveshark's side of the story is that they were negotiating some kind of licensing deal with the major labels, and ...

There's been a lot of buzz over the last few days about how all of Warner Music Group's music videos have gone missing from YouTube. Now Alley Insider reports that Warner, BMG, EMI, and Universal are talking about building their own site for music videos. The idea would be to create a single destination where be able to find music videos from popular artists. There's some reason to think the ...

Aiming to keep its lead in the music retail market, Wal-Mart is launching DRM free MP3 music downloads at Walmart.com for 94 cents per track and $9.22 per album. The uber retailer's music catalog offers digital tracks from major record labels EMI and Universal. The new MP3 format allows customers to play music on most devices, including the ubiquitous iPod, iPhone and Zune players. Universal ...

Over the past few years mega coffee chain Starbucks has been active in selling music CDs through its stores worldwide, making the most of the promotional value of the association between its stores and music - and now it appears that Burger King wants to get into action too. Burger King has sealed a promotional deal with EMI that will see its Whopper munching customers in the United Kingdom ...

While the recording industry may be in the doghouse, that hasn't stopped Japanese pop princess Utada Hikaru from claiming a new record for the most digital downloads in the world with her latest single 'Flavor of Life'. Hikaru has managed over 7 million downloads across all formats since February, which isn't bad going especially seeing as that it's unlikely that many people outside of Japan would ...

If absolute privacy is a concern critics are voicing against Apple's latest move with DRM-less tracks from EMI, they should have filed their complaints over four years ago when the iTunes Store first opened. digg_url = 'http://digg.com/apple/There_is_no_privacy_issue_with_iTunes_Store_DRM_free_files'; As the story goes, many users and industry pundits have announced their disappointment ...

It looks like Apple is prepared to start selling DRM-free music from EMI this afternoon. We've known this day was coming, but yesterday Apple released iTunes 7.2 with support for "iTunes Plus," which seems to be Apple's name for unencrypted music. A quick refresher course. DRM-free tracks will be available for $1.29, or $.30 more than tracks with Apple's Fair Play copy protection. While the ...

Apple is set to begin selling DRM-free music from EMI starting in May. But it looks like Amazon is gunning to be the first major company to sell those sweet DRM-free tunes. There've been rumors that Amazon could be entering the digital music store game for months now. Now it looks like the company's been in talks every major record label, possibly in a rush to get a store up and running in the ...

Not content to just follow Apple into the portable music market with the Zune, Microsoft appears poised to follow Apple into the DRM-free music market. Music label has already agreed to sell unencrypted high quality digital audio files through Apple's iTunes Music Store. Zune marketing director Jason Reindorp told CNet that Microsoft plans to follow suit, offering DRM-free versions of EMI music. ...

In February Steve Jobs told the world that he thought it was time to get rid of DRM and now two months later word on the street is that Steve Jobs plans on selling songs owned by London based EMI on iTunes DRM free. If it happens, this could be the beginning of the end for DRM if other record companies follow suit and offer up their tunes DRM free as well. Jobs will reportedly make an announcement ...

I need to know something. You are the only one who can help me here. Why? Because I need your opinion on something. I already have my own opinion, so it is no use asking myself about it, I already know. Let's say someone was offering you free music, and you could download it legally, but the catch is that you would have to watch a 90 second ad clip before you could download the song. Would you do ...

This week record label EMI signed a deal with SpiralFrog to provide lyrics (ad-supported) from their artists to SpiralFrog users, and allow free access for US residents to the music available from EMI. Good news for listeners, but something I read in the article on USA Today bothered me a bit. It was the statement by Roger Faxon, EMI'ss co-chief executive, that EMI wants to "recapture consumer ...