Sentences with phrase «own record label»

His departure comes as Google is facing growing threats of regulation in Europe and a high - stakes negotiations with record labels in the US.

Record labels used to rely on radio play and music videos to ensure sales, but in today's music industry (one heavily influenced by the Internet, of course), advertising and television are the «new radio,» says David Hayman, creative director and music supervisor at Toronto's Supersonic Creative.

Not content to just offer drivers Spotify access, Tesla is reportedly in talks with major record labels to create a new way for people to listen to music.

For instance, their library includes a trucking technology business plan, a record label plan, and even a medical tourism plan.

In 1999, LaCola became the chairman of the board and a co-owner of Ghostface Killah's record label, Stark Enterprises.

The record label was sold to Thorn EMI in 1992 and was the catalyst for many other business ventures.

He has to prove that something significant is happening, like one of his artists is consistently selling out at local clubs or a record label wants to sign a deal.

The major record labels don't promote talent the way they used to; they pull the plug at the slightest excuse.

«The initial purpose of record labels was connecting musicians with people who wanted to listen to their music,» says Damian Kulash, OK Go's lead singer.

And yet, various players in the recorded - music industry — record labels, publishing companies, music distributors and even individual artists — routinely argue that services like Spotify aren't paying enough, and that advertising - supported services like YouTube are even worse.

The company has 60 million paying subscribers, just renegotiated long - term licensing deals with three major record labels, and is valued at about $ 15 billion.

His music made money for countless people who worked in his industry — the ticket sellers, studio musicians, streaming services, distributors, and recording labels.

It seems companies like Spotify have learned from Napster — they work with record labels and artists to allow for legal music streaming.

But even though users liked Scour, movie studios and record labels did not.

Launching a record label has never been more difficult.

Muzak amassed a collection of roughly 5,000 songs within a few years, more than any record label at the time.

In other words, it'll be easier for record labels to prevent music from being copied.

At the 40th celebration of Virgin Records, the 63 - year - old who has helped shape the music, space and airline industries, recalled crying when he sold the record label more than 20 years ago for $ 1 billion.

HMV has historically made up a huge chunk of music sales in Canada so everyone from record labels to musicians will now have to consider whether pressing music onto physical formats is even worthwhile, says Cross.

He said that he «had trouble» with a track on his personal SoundCloud profile as well as the profile of his record label.

Independent music retailers are the primary beneficiaries of the niche boom, along with bands and record labels that press vinyl along with the standard CD release.

But Ek said he felt the connection between artists and Spotify has been misunderstood, and likened it to some of the roles played by record labels over the years.

Thanks to that innovation, music revenues have steadily crept back up: Spotify boasts 140 million customers, of whom 70 million are paying monthly — a gusher of cash for artists and record labels.

Coincidentally — but likely not — it's the record label Swift, one year Spiegel's senior, is signed to.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to hear a bid by major record labels to revive copyright infringement claims against video - sharing website Vimeo for hosting content that included songs by famed bands such as the Beatles, the Jackson 5, and the Beach Boys without permission.

With Snapchat recently amping up its streaming music and entertainment content, Spiegel's rumored eyes for his ex's record label comes as no surprise and could prove to be a smart move.

The record labels asked the Supreme Court to hear their appeal of the circuit court ruling, but the justices declined.

Facebook (fb) is reportedly in talks with major record labels and music publishers to reach a deal that would see its billions of users allowed to include music in videos uploaded to the platform.

With sales of recorded music withering, the hot idea among record labels was to sign artists to so - called 360 deals, where a company didn't just release a band's recordings, but promoted the concerts, sold the merchandise, and shared in profits from websites, fan clubs and film deals.

The last published case concerning this 1908 law was decided in 1961, when Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts used it to stop a for - profit record label from calling itself Lincoln Center Classics.

They called the record label and Shawn recommended me.

Spotify pays record labels directly for their music, and it pays a huge amount because it has no choice — YouTube's advertising revenue is never going to approach what the music industry wants in terms of payment.

Back when we were building up our record label, Virgin Records, many of us who worked there travelled to the West Indies together and spent our time trying to find up - and - coming reggae bands, as well as sampling a few of the local delicacies.

Jobs cleverly made his pact with the record labels when iTunes worked only on Macs, which in 2002 had a personal - computing market share in the low single digits.

Even before Swift's letter was posted on Tumblr Sunday morning, independent record labels had complained that Apple's service took advantage of musicians.

Outside the health care community, an indie record label in Brooklyn that he had supported cut ties with him.

«When we didn't have much money, the club helped with cash flow,» says Bruce Pavitt, founder of Sub Pop Records, a $ 1 - million independent Seattle record label.

Vevo's owners include two of the top music record labels: Universal Music Group, owned by Vivendi, and Sony Music Entertainment, in addition to Google and Abu Dhabi Media.

The vast majority of our employees weren't here when we couldn't pay salaries in 2002, and they weren't here during our royalty battle with the record labels in 2007, which was another low point.

Google (GOOG) secured deals with three of the four major record labels — Universal Music, Sony, and Warner Music Group.

We won't see a Hanson empire on the scale of Diddy's, Taylor says, but the brothers have always exhibited an entrepreneurial streak: They have their own record label, do their own merchandising, run their own web properties, and organize music and beer festivals.

They've co-owned a record label called FarFetched for five years.

Think about independent record labels such as Merge and Matador, which has thrived financially by working closely with artists and keeping up communication with fans.

You can create and sell your own products, develop and distribute your own applications, find your own funding... or, like Taylor Swift, pitch the right person and in the process help him launch his own record label.

We went from running a small record shop to starting up a record label with recording studios and then added our large music megastores to our portfolio.

Taylor Swift has been paid less than $ 500,000 in the past 12 months for domestic streaming of her songs, Scott Borchetta, the CEO of Taylor Swift's record label, the independent Nashville - based Big Machine, told TIME Wednesday.

The trio's original vision for the company was quite different; they wanted to create a fantasy music league in which participants could build their ideal record label.

Like Hollywood, record labels and newspapers, the porn industry is now scrambling to reinvent its products.

A Next Big Sound account quickly became a must - have for record labels, which pay for an annual subscription; cost varies depending on service level.

After failed attempts at getting signed to a major record label, Jay - Z and his two business partners, Damon Dash and Kareem Burke, started their own label, Roc - A-Fella Records, in 1996.