by Zach Shaw | Jan 8, 2013 | Digital Media
Led Zeppelin is unarguably one of the biggest bands to ever exist in rock music (just ask President Obama). So would having exclusive rights to stream their vast catalog be a major grab for any streaming subscription service? Hell yeah it would! And apparently such a...
by Zach Shaw | May 1, 2012 | Label Moves
Back in December of 2009, Roadrunner Records had signed Baptized In Blood. Signing the Canadian thrash group was a hopeful sign to many that Roadrunner would continue to work with “heavier”/ non-mainstream acts (a fear caused by the success of Nickelback). However, in...
by Zach Shaw | May 6, 2011 | Label Moves
Just this morning we reported that an announcement regarding Warner Music Group’s purchase could be made as soon as today after the label’s shares experienced a nice increase this past week. And boom, it’s now official: Russian billionaire Len Blavatnik has purchased...
by Zach Shaw | May 6, 2011 | Label Moves
Earlier this week, reports leaked out that after lucking out with so most interest from bidders (who were apparently willing to spend around $3 billion to purchase them), WMG were beginning to rub bidders the wrong way. The label was reportedly making the process so...
by Zach Shaw | May 4, 2011 | Label Moves, Rumors and Gossip
It seemed Warner Music Group had lucked out back in April with so many bidders showing interest in purchasing the label. Reports were even saying that the bidding price at the time was near $3 billion. But with the first week of May upon us and no purchase made yet,...