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More Int’l Partnerships

This morning, I blogged about a deal between Universal and a Malaysian company. Now there is another deal to report between Warner Music and SBS Broadcasting. This partnership will provide Warner with direct access to music talent winners in the ‘Popstars’ show put on by SBS in the Netherlands. Warner Music will sign 360 deals [...]

Classical 360

We have recently started seeing the introduction of deals with musicians that are referred to as 360 deals. Instead of the record label just selling cds of the artist, labels and other companies are getting into more aspects of the artist’s career and making money from a variety of revenue streams. We have seen this [...]

Major Labels

Over this past weekend, I had a conversation with a friend of mine about the music industry. I was talking about the way that some of the big name artists were moving away from the major labels to companies like Live Nation that offered ’360 deals’ and touring venues throughout the world. I described how [...]

Live Nation Update

Live Nation has recently signed an additional two artists, Nickelback and Shakira (to your right). This comes on the cusp of the departure of the Chairman Michael Cohl. Some expected that Cohl left due to disagreements with CEO Michael Rapino about the strategies of these enormous 360 deals Live Nation was signing. Well, if that [...]

360 Deals in India?

One market that we all need to keep a close eye on for music & entertainment is India. Their music industry is booming. And the market looks much different than the US market. For starters, upwards of 60% of music sales are of songs found in films. The tie between movies and music is extremely [...]