Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
Daily News: Tuesday
Changes At Epic: “Epic Records promotion department has reorganized under head Jacqueline Saturn. Tommy Nappi will now oversee Crossover in addition to his Pop duties with Pop nationals Marni Halpern and Alex Levy reporting to him on Crossover. The department has also upped a pair of “super” regionals, including Dixie Tipton in Chicago and Sonny D in L.A.” (via Hits)
EMI To Buy Boosey & Hawkes? “EMI, the record group owned by Guy Hands’ private equity firm Terra Firma, is eyeing up a £100m bid for classical sheet music publisher Boosey & Hawkes. A source close to EMI said that Boosey would appeal to the group as it would bolster its successful music publishing arm. Boosey owns rights to a who’s who of 20th-century composers, including Rachmaninoff and Stravinsky, and signed jazz trumpeter Wynton Marsalis in January.” (via The Independent)
Puretracks Launches DRM-Free Mobile Music Store for BlackBerry: “The Puretracks Mobile Edition music store for BlackBerry, built in conjunction with handset development partner Magnet Mobile Media, will work with all BlackBerry® Pearl™, BlackBerry® Curve™ and BlackBerry® 8800 series smartphones. It is a next-evolution digital music service developed exclusively for wireless handsets using compressed DRM-free AAC/AAC+ file formats. This high-quality digital format is only half the size of MP3 files, significantly reducing the download time and storage capacity required while maintaining CD quality sound.” (via Businesswire)
eMusic Boosts Catalog: “Indie digital retailer eMusic recently inked a spate of new label partnerships, with records by 43 new labels and aggregators being added to their catalog. The new partnerships will bring the total number of tracks in the eMusic catalog to over 3.5 million.” (via Billboard)
