EU To Rule On BMG Music Sale Dec. 8
European Union (EU) regulators set a Dec. 8 deadline to rule on Universal Music Group’s plans to buy BMG Music Publishing for $2.09 billion. Vivendi SA’s Universal is the world’s largest music company and BMG, owned by German media company Bertelsmann AG, has the rights to more than a million songs by recording artists such as Nelly, Maroon 5 and Coldplay, as well as classic hits by the Beach Boys, Barry Manilow and...
MySpace Music Promotion Guide Now Available
MySpace is one of the great Internet success stories of the past few years. With more than 120 million registered users and nearly three million music acts setting up free profiles on the site, MySpace.com has become a godsend for countless independent artists, including Relient K, My Chemical Romance, Arctic Monkeys, and Hawthorne Heights. “In early 2006 I spent a few months researching MySpace and uncovering how the most...






