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TuneCore & Universal Music Partnership
TuneCore and Universal Music just signed a distribution partnership that will allow upcoming artists a chance to receive services from a major record label. TuneCore is a company that distributes an artist or band’s digital songs to a number of retail outlets (ex. iTunes). TuneCore charges a fee per song, but the artist receives 100% [...]
Get Music Australia
Back in January of this year, Universal Music Australia launched its own website to sell & stream music. The website is Get Music (http://www.getmusic.com.au/). Universal Australia is now taking it one step further and is partnering with ebay in Australia to launch a new music portal at http://play.ebay.com.au/. Users will be able to purchase or [...]
Vevo Music Service
The much awaited online video channel for Universal Music has taken further steps forward. This video channel will be a partnership between YouTube and Universal Music and will live at vevo.com. Universal Music currently has the highest numbers of viewers for a particular YouTube channel. That’s great for Universal, but also a bit of a [...]
Universal Company Structure Changes
Universal Music Group Distribution (UMGD) changed its corporate structure around a bit recently. In a move telling of the times, digital and physical music sales will now fall under the same area called Universal Music Distribution. The other areas under UMGD are: – Fontana – Indie Distribution- Vivendi – Video Distribution- Digital – Digital Assets [...]
Universal & Kyte
Universal continues to make headlines with some innovative new approaches for the music industry. These include initiatives both in the international realm and in the digital realm. Their most recent announcement is a deal signed with the media platform company Kyte. Kyte allows companies (and in this case artists) to upload content in real time [...]
Record Labels
The market share numbers for the major labels have been released. They pretty much stayed close to ’07 numbers. Here are market share numbers as of the end of 2008 for the big 4: Universal – 31.52% (down from 31.9% in ’07) Sony – 25.3% (up from 24.97% in ’07) Warner – 21.38% (up from [...]
Universal Malaysia
Kokopelli Times has recently covered a number of deals that Universal Music has been initiating. Many of these deals are for the purpose of expanding their international operations and reach. So while EMI & Warner are making agreements to distribute for one another in different areas of the world, it seems as though Universal is [...]
New Revenue Streams
In the clear reality of rapidly declining cd sales, we are starting to see little glimpses of revenue streams for the major labels. These new revenue streams were unlikely even a speck of imagination 10 years ago for most of the labels. But just this week, we have seen EMI launch a new website to [...]
Universal China
Rock Records, the leading independent music label in China and Asia as a whole, has just entered into an agreement with Universal Music for sales & distribution in mainland China. Rock Records is based out of Taiwan and has a number of successful Mandarin-language artists. This is not the first deal between Rock & Universal. [...]
Universal & India Partnership
Here is some exciting news about a partnership between Universal Music Group and Eros International out of India. Eros Int’l is an integrated studio in the media and entertainment industry in India’s bustling Bollywood scene. The partnership will consist of a joint venture artist-management agency. The goal will be to promote Indian popular music acts [...]
