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| Date: 09/23/2024 Section: Rumor Mill Universal Music Greater China has launched a new label division: Universal Music China Greater Bay Area. And no, they're not talking about Oakland. UMGC, Universal Music Group China, Universal Music China Greater Bay Area, Timothy Xu |
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| Date: 04/20/2024 Section: Rumor Mill The fate of TikTok in the U.S. remains up in the air after the House easily passed a bill that provides $95b in aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan while also requiring ByteDance, TikTok’s Chinese parent company, to divest the platform or face a domestic ban from the app stores. TikTok, ByteDance |
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| Date: 02/01/2024 Section: The B-Side New And Developing artist Wasia Project... |
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| Date: 09/28/2023 Section: Rumor Mill Universal Music Greater China has appointed William Hsieh managing director of Universal Music Taiwan, SVP of UMGC. China, Taiwan, Universal Music Greater China, UMGC, Timothy Xu, William Hsieh, UMG, Asia |
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| Date: 09/05/2023 Section: Rumor Mill Universal Music Greater China has appointed Timothy Xu chairman/CEO. Timothy Xu, Universal Music Group, Universal Music Greater China, Sir Lucian Grainge, Adam Granite |
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| Date: 05/04/2023 Section: Rumor Mill In honor of AAPI Heritage Month, UMG is shining a spotlight on four execs making waves: Island co-boss Imran Majid, Interscope CFO Annie Lee, Interscope EVP, Head of Visual Creative Michelle An and Capitol Records President Arjin Pulijal. Imran Majid, Annie Lee, Michelle An, Arjin Pulijal |
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| Date: 04/14/2023 Section: Rumor Mill Justin Timberlake has teamed up with 1500 Sound Academy co-founders James Fauntleroy and Rance “Larrance” Dopson to launch a scholarship in memory of Nicole Hurst, his late backup singer and friend. Justin Timberlake, 1500 Sound Academy, James Fauntleroy, Rance "Larrance" Dopson, Nicole Hurst |
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| Date: 02/23/2023 Section: Rumor Mill Taylor Swift has won IFPI’s 2022 Global Recording Artist of the Year Award for the third time, the most of any artist (she won in 2014 and 2019). IFPI, Taylor Swift, Drake, Bad Bunny, Republic Records, The Weeknd, Kendrick Lamar, BTS |
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| Date: 05/19/2022 Section: Rumor Mill Sony Music is inaugurating RCA Records Greater China with the signing of two of the biggest-selling artists in the region, Jackson Wang and A-Lin. Kevin Foo has been appointed Managing Director. RCA, Jackson Wang, A-Lin Kevin Foo, Andrew Chan, Sony Music |
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| Date: 08/16/2021 Section: Rumor Mill Republic has launched its first international label division, opening Republic Records China in Beijing. The launch is part of a significant expansion of UMG’s recorded-music operations in China, with a new, multi-label structure. UMG becomes the first major music company to... Sunny Chang, Tony Wen, Monte Lipman, Garand Wu, Li Nong Chen, Sunnee, Taylor Swift, Justin Bieber, Ariana Grande, Billie Eilish, Lang Lang, Yuja Wang, Mei Yeh, Duncan Wong |
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| Byline: Simon Glickman Date: 05/27/2021 Section: Rumor Mill The publishing world is red-hot right now, and Warner Chappell co-head Guy Moot finds the temperature decidedly agreeable. Guy Moot, Carianne Marshall, Ryan Press, Ben Vaughn, Natascha Augustin, Gustavo Menendez, Shani Gonzales, Santiago Menendez-Pidal, Matthieu Tessier, Brandra Ringo, Marc Wilson, Tim Pagnotta, Jason Bernard, Lizzo, Belly, Wassim "Sal" Slaiby, Anderson .Paak, Central Cee, Masked Wolf |
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| Byline: Michael Sigman Date: 03/13/2018 Section: Rumor Mill Russ Solomon, the beloved founder of Tower Records, who revolutionized music retail from the 1970s through the end of the 20th century,died on the evening of 3/4 at his home in Sacramento. The following biographical piece, based on extensive interviews with the great man himself by the brilliant journalist Mike Sigman, originally appeared in the July 2017 special issue, History of the Music Biz Two... |
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| Date: 03/07/2018 Section: Rumor Mill UMG topper Sir Lucian Grainge issued the following edict, um, internal note on 3/7 regarding a new reporting structure in Asia and elsewhere. After the message was delivered, there were whitefish sandwiches for all. |
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| Date: 05/12/2014 Section: Rumor Mill The King of Pop may be gone, but he’s headed back to the upper reaches of the album chart.Today Epic releases Xscape, a collection of material from the Michael Jackson archives presented both in its original form and reworked by top contemporary producers. The eight songs from 1983-99, selecte... |
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| Date: 05/12/2014 Section: Rumor Mill X-CELLENT START: On its international release day, Michael Jackson’s XSCAPE (Epic) has thus far hit #1 on iTunes in 49 territories, including France, Belgium, Denmark, Netherlands, Spain, Norway, Sweden, Poland, Greece, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam (wonder how you say “King of Pop” in Vietnamese). The album has achieved 82 Top 5 iTunes positions, including #2s in the U.K., Germany, Italy, Finland, Portugal, Switzerland, South Africa, India and Israel, in what is an extremely fluid situation. As we’re seeing today, nearly five years after his death, MJ’s appeal remains unprecedented. (5/12a) |
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| Date: 10/23/2012 Section: Rumor Mill Taylor Swift’s fourth Big Machine studio album Red came out yesterday accompanied by an unprecedented marketing campaign that promises to send first-week sales past 1 million.The release topped the all-genre albums chart at iTunes within 36 minutes of release, and first-day sales alone topped ... |
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| Date: 10/03/2012 Section: Rumor Mill APPLE DOWNSIZING: Looks like the iPad mini (or whatever it’ll be called) is nearly on its way. Apple’s Asian component suppliers have started mass production of a new tablet computer smaller than the current iPad, according to various published reports. The new tablet reportedly will ha... |
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| Date: 05/16/2012 Section: Rumor Mill ANALYZE THIS: Together, Apple and Samsung account for more than half of the world's smartphones. In the quarter through March, Samsung shipped 44.5 million smartphones to grab a 30.6% share of the global market, topping Apple's 24.1% share with 35.1 million iPhones, according to Strategy An... |
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| Date: 08/19/2011 Section: Rumor Mill By Jesse Beer-Dietz (jesse.beerdietz@hitsmagazine.com) SPOTLIGHTShinobi Ninja (www.myspace.com/shinobininjamusic @shinobininja): Since we last wrote about the Ninjas in October of last year, there have been some major developments. One of the hardest-working bands out there today, they’ve uti... |
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| Date: 03/16/2011 Section: Rumor Mill TAKING IT EASY IN CHINA: The Eagles hang out at the Great Wall after a 12-city tour of Asia that included Beijing and Shanghai, China, Taipei, Taiwan and Seoul, Korea , where they had never performed before. The band (l-r: Joe Walsh, Glenn Frey, Don Henley and Timothy B. Schmit), also performed four concerts in Japan and departed that country five days before the devastating earthquake and tsunami struck. There’s absolutely no truth to the rumor manager Irving Azoff bought the Wall and planned to turn it into 1,876,987 Wal-Marts. (3/16p) |
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| Date: 04/30/2010 Section: Rumor Mill SONY UPS SHELDRA: Sheldra Khahaifa has been named SVP Finance, Commercial Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment. In this new post, Sheldra will oversee all aspects of financial management and reporting for CMG, including making sure no one’s lunch expenses top $5.75. Sheldra comes to CMG from Sony Music’s Global Digital Business and U.S. Sales division, where she pioneered the practice of selling used CDs as drink coasters in Taiwan as VP of Finance and Operations. She joined Arista Records in 2001 as Sr. Director of Finance after spending the early part of her career at Price WaterhouseCoopers as a CPA. (4/30p) |
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| Date: 03/02/2010 Section: Rumor Mill SMARTPHONE FACE-OFF: Apple acknowledged this morning that it has filed lawsuits against HTC, the Taiwan-based manufacturer of the Google Nexus One, accusing it of infringing on 20 Apple patents tied to the iPhone, the N.Y. Times reports. While Google wasn’t mentioned in the suit, the barrage ... |
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| Date: 09/20/2004 Section: Rumor Mill Sony BMG Music Entertainment's worldwide team is in place. COO Michael Smellie announced the company's management group for its operations in territories outside the U.S., which will be overseen by the following executives, all reporting directly to Mr. Smellie:* Tim Bowen, Sony BMG U.K./Can... |
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| Date: 01/07/2004 Section: Rumor Mill Amazon.com is under the gun in England, where the world’s largest online retailer is being investigated by the music industry over possible illegal importing of CDs, according to a report in the Financial Times.The probe by the BPI, the UK’s version of the RIAA, is still in its early pha... |
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| Date: 10/29/2003 Section: Rumor Mill A retail giant is set to step down from his throne.With the sale of Tower Records a foregone conclusion, President/CEO Michael Solomon has announced his plan to leave the company in order to provide the new ownership with a "clean leadership slate," according to a letter written to the company’... |
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| Byline: Simon Glickman Date: 02/12/2002 Section: Rumor Mill RIAA President/CEO Hilary Rosen testified today before the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, asserting that physical piracy costs U.S. industries the "staggering sum" of more than $4.5 billion per year, and online piracy an untold amount more. "We sold less music last year than we did the ... |
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| Date: 09/28/2001 Section: Rumor Mill Two weeks ago, it didn't seem possible that we, as a nation, might ever find things to laugh at again. Or that we would ever allow ourselves to be distracted by trivialities. But as it turns out, in the words of the tired old phrase and the family TV drama from the early 90s, life goes on. Despit... |
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| Byline: Mark Pearson Date: 06/26/2001 Section: Rumor Mill Tower Records isn’t going anywhere…despite what you may have read elsewhere.When Dow Jones reported last week that Tower Records was contemplating filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection following their 10Q financial report (see related hitsdailydouble story, 6/25), Tower CEO/Preside... |
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| Byline: Marc Pollack Date: 05/14/2001 Section: Rumor Mill GigaMedia, a Taiwan-based provider of broadband Internet access, has inked a strategic alliance with EMI Music Asia to pursue business opportunities and develop the online market for music in Taiwan.The alliance establishes GigaMedia as the strategic new media partner for EMI in Taiwan—the mos... |
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| Date: 04/09/2001 Section: Rumor Mill We'll apologize to China when they apologize for the bad moo goo gai pan we ordered last Wednesday. That said, this week's Top 50 Album chart is a bit from Column A and a bit from Column B, as Epic's heavily hyped "NOW Volume 6" is living up to the hype and running away with the top spot... |
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| Byline: David Simutis Date: 04/02/2001 Section: Rumor Mill The Federal Government is composed of three branches—the Executive, Judicial and Legislative. The Judicial has made its feelings about Napster somewhat clear, and Dubya can't turn his computer on without Dick Cheney's help. So the swappery turns to the Congress.Tomorrow, the Senate Jud... |
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| Date: 03/30/2001 Section: Rumor Mill Big weekend, kiddies. We got the Final Four Saturday. We got the return of Daylight Savings Time at 2 a.m. Sunday morning, followed a few hours later by strong coffee, the Sunday funnies and, of course, the obligatory three Tylenols. Hey, it won't be long till you've got a shot at driving ho... |
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| Date: 03/23/2001 Section: Rumor Mill The migrating birdies are winging northward as the crack of the bat is heard again in Florida and Arizona, the wasted weasels have returned from their expense-account bacchanal in Texas, college hoops are preempting prime-time shows on CBS… What's that tell you? Yes, kiddies, it's spri... |
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| Byline: Marc Pollack Date: 09/26/2000 Section: Rumor Mill Warner Music International set a company record last week by shipping 3 million copies of Madonna's new album "Music" worldwide, excluding the United States. The album has entered 15 international charts around the world at #1, according to the company."First, we would never have been able to in... |
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