Sentences with phrase «own record company»

was not just the band's breakthrough album; its success caused record companies to see live albums not as throwaways but as opportunities to expose potential fans to a band — and generate significant revenue.

I was going from a record company to the airline business, so the key thing in that deal was that if it didn't work out, I could hand the 747 back to Boeing after the first year.

There are also opportunities for system of record companies that can help their business customers tame Big Data, he says.

It wasn't going to bankrupt our record company or the other things we'd started.

With Loblaw's purchase of a digital health records company, Galen G. Weston has shown a knack for predicting — and shaping — Canadians» retail habits

That's not the company's only strategy for growth, though — in August it bought B.C. - based QHR Corp., a digital medical records company, for $ 170 million.

Spotify is trying to hammer out new deals with the music industry's biggest record companies to hold on to the rights to play their artists» music for the foreseeable future, according to anonymous sources cited by the Wall Street Journal.

Record companies, on the other hand, want to hike Spotify's fees to as much as 58 % of revenue, though Spotify could gain some leverage by offering labels the opportunity to make some music available only to the streaming service's 30 million paid subscribers.

One obstacle in Spotify's negotiations is over the share of revenue the service has to pass on record companies — some of which also own minority stakes in Spotify — and their musical acts.

If I were in a happening band on the cusp of success, I wouldn't go through a conventional record company today.

Starting Interscope, a record company with artists like Eminem, Lady Gaga, Gwen Stefani, Pharell, Katy Perry, and Kendrick Lamar.

Smaller and newer bands will earn less, because record companies will only be able to promote lesser - known bands by using some of the proceeds from their major artists.

A survey released on Tuesday by TiVo (TIVO) finds that 9 out of 10 people are engaging in «binge viewing,» which the digital video recording company defines as watching more than three episodes of a particular TV show in one day.

Both companies are close to completing months of negotiations for deals with record companies and music publishers that will allow them to offer the new services.

And, as Ries notes, it wasn't the consumers that weren't fans of Napster, but the record companies.

A U.S. appeals court ruled on Tuesday that record companies and music publishers that once formed part of EMI Group could pursue additional copyright infringement claims in a long - running lawsuit over defunct online music storage firm MP3tunes.

Getting lots of money from Spotify may be great for music labels and owners, but it's not doing much for Spotify: The company lost $ 200 million last year, and the massive payments it makes to record companies (which amount to more than 85 % of its revenues) are a big part of the problem.

The Counting Crows have fired their record company and struck out on their own, Techcrunch reports, joining bands like Radiohead and Nine Inch Nails which have decided to self - publish their music.

Since the world's first recorded company surfaced in 578 A.D., managers have motivated workers during challenging times through inspirational messages in Javelins: Spearhead Leadership and Moneyball.

By the end of that year, we'd made a record, we had a record company interested, we'd signed to an agency, and so we negotiated to get another year.

The sales numbers reflect the wide appeal of the emotional and personal ballads by the 27 year - old British singer, as well as the decision by her independent record company XL Recordings not to make the album available for streaming services including Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer and Google Play.

The problem is, traditional measures like consumer spending or GDP underestimate the value of this market now, because digital goods like the music industry for example, are «cannibalizing» assets, such as the CD players or record companies of old.

When I showed my partners in the record company the proposal for a new airline, they thought I'd gone mad.

Whereas in France, we had a guy called Patrick Zelnik, who was a C.E.O. but he was also an entrepreneur and he took the record company into Virgin Megastores, into all sorts of different businesses, a bit like myself.

I mean for instance, when we had a record company in Germany many years ago, the person who actually ran the record company was a true C.E.O..

Early in his career, he developed an online pharmacy for one of the first patient health record companies.

Get into the conversation about the future of transportation — don't be like the record companies who got smacked in the face by new technology

If Kickstarter were like the media institutions that dominated the 20th century — book publishers, movie studios, record companies — the crowdfunding site's revenue would derive mostly from a few big hits, like the Oculus Rift virtual - reality visor and the Pebble smartwatch.

The news won't come as a complete shock to anyone who has been following the electronic medical records company for the last couple of years.

Coming from Cash, however, knowing that he spent much of his career at odds with his record company and / or music producers, and that he began making these recordings just after the peak of the earliest portion of his career, these renditions take on the authoritative voice in his catalogue.

Record companies are shifting their investment to live performances because of the bites that piracy and streaming services are taking out of the business.

I'm a lawyer defending a major record company, and I'm talkin» about Chewbacca!

We get that flat - out denial of the retrospective romanticization of this period again and again: the road trip across America is awful, meeting Bud Grossman at the famous Gate of Horn is awful, being signed with a legendary ma and pa folk record company is awful, and so on.

Record companies: Consider a year of releasing dangerously!

I have no interest in record companies.

Should any individual / recording company want to produced the songs can contact on my email: [email protected]

But the big wig record companies jumped in and took charge of all that was to be heard on record or radio.

Not willing to cater to a superficially defined contemporary Christian music market, The Call will have to take their chances like everyone else in the mainstream record market, where formulaic music and demographics - concerned record companies prevail.

Both bands represented an arrangement that gave the musicians greater control vis - à - vis their recording companies, and this extended, in an increasing degree, to the publicity itself.

Ten business and financial corporations control the three major television and radio networks (NBC, CBS, ABC), 34 subsidiary television stations, 201 cable TV systems, 62 radio stations, 20 record companies, 59 magazines including Time and Newsweek, 58 newspapers including the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, and the Los Angeles Times, 41 book publishers, and various motion picture companies like Columbia Pictures and Twentieth - Century Fox.

Of the five global record companies, Warner, CBS, EMI, and Polygram, only Warner is still an American corporation.

Several young Christian stars have struggled to reconcile Christ's call to self - denial with their record company's desire to put their names and faces on T - shirts and magazine covers.

Today, just 20 short years later, he oversees the Christian Broadcasting Network which, from its $ 50 - million headquarters in Virginia Beach, incorporates four television stations, six radio stations, a missionary radio station, a recording company, a programming service which makes 24 - hour - a-day programming available to the more than 3,000 cable systems in the U.S.A. and Canada, a news network, a university, and a satellite earth station.

As much as I want to raise my fist like a renegade and shout, «Screw the record companies and their marketing ploys!»

It's difficult because so many of us hate the record companies and hate the way the whole system works.

Basically, it means that the people in charge of record companies shouldn't worry about downloading.

If I remember correctly from some interview he gave, the rights are actually owned by some record company...!!

The record companies, who opted for draconian measures to protect their industry, lost the battle quickly and definitively.

A former drummer in a heavy metal rock group, the Liberal Democrat MP for Birmingham Yardley also founded his own record company, Music Mercia International (MMI), in 1997.

Global market domination by the major record companies, who decide which artists are marketable, in what ways and to which audiences.