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Ana Torroja, former singer of Spain's most successful ever pop group, Mecano, has become one of BMG France's priority artists. Ensconced in a Paris apartment since March and rapidly improving [...]

MADRID--Spanish music conglomerate Gran Via Musical (GVM) has created a new Madrid-based Latin record label with Sony Music Entertainment and Emilio Estefan's Miami-based Crescent Moon label. As yet unnamed, the [...]

MADRID -- Universal Music Spain has closed one of its three labels--Universal-- and, as of May 1, is operating just two in the shape of Mercury and Polydor. Mercury's new [...]

UNIVERSAL MUSIC SPAIN has carried out a management restructuring and confirmed the closure of one of its three labels. Effective May 1, the Mercury imprint in Spain is to be [...]

CARLOS ITUINO has been promoted from VP to president of Universal Music Spain, effective July 1. He will replace Jesus Lopez, who on that date takes over as chairman of [...]

TOZE BRITO, former managing director of BMG Portugal, has been named to the same position at Universal Music Portugal. In his new Lisbon-based role, Brito reports to Jesus Lopez, chairman [...]

Company President Lopez Credits Its 3 Labels As Key To Success MADRID--Universal Music Spain (UMS) has swept from fourth to first spot in market share in its first full fiscal [...]

MADRID -- Universal Music Group (UMG) and Spain's largest broadcasting company GrupoPrisa have launched their much-anticipated Latin music label, MuXXIc Latina. MuXXIc Latina will be based in Miami, not New [...]

MADRID--The partners in MuXXIc Latina--Universal Music Group (UMG) and Spain's largest audiovisual company, Grupo Prisa--are ironing out details in their goal of creating the world's biggest Latino music label. Their [...]

DAVID BYRNE'S world music label, Luaka Bop, has announced plans to rerelease in Europe through Virgin 28 albums from its back catalog--the first Luaka Bop product to appear in Europe [...]

WARNER MUSIC INTERNATIONAL (WMI) has promoted Jos[acute{e}] Carlos 'Charlie' Sanchez to managing director of its DRO EastWest Spain label, where he had been deputy managing director since February. He fills [...]

It has been a case of third time lucky for Spanish singer Monica Naranjo, whose third album Minage went straight in at number one in the Spanish charts after going [...]

SPANISH MUSIC CONGLOMERATE Gran Via Musical and authors and publishers' body SGAE are joining forces in a three-year plan to boost Spanish and Latino repertoire. Activities include co-production of repertoire [...]

MADRID -- The formation of a major international Latin music label by Spanish media conglomerate Grupo Prisa's Gran Via Musical (GVM) music operation and the Universal Music Group (UMG) is [...]

MADRID--BMG, the only major label to have its Latin division based outside the U.S., is targeting Europe as its key area for expansion. That statement of intent follows the appointment [...]

GIBRALTAR GROUP Melon Diesel is the new millennium's first rock sensation in Spain, with its debut album, 'La Cuesta De Mister Bond' (Mr. Bond's Hill), on Sony Epic Spain making [...]

JOSE CARLOS 'CHARLIE' SANCHEZ has been named deputy managing director of DRO EastWest Spain. DRO EastWest was acquired by Warner in 1993 but still operates as an indie label in [...]

New Company's Combined Share Heads For 40% Of Market MADRID--True to the country's maxim that chores and problems are best faced manana, the Spanish music business appears to have reacted [...]

SONY MUSIC SPAIN'S Columbia division has signed 17-year-old Malu niece of top flamenco guitarist Paco de Lucia. She was 15 when she recorded her debut album, 'Aprendiz' (Novice), for the [...]

MADRID--Universal Music Spain is diving into the thriving Spanish underground dance scene via an alliance with Barcelona's cutting-edge dance indie label and distributor So Dens Distribucions. The move will open […]

EMI/HISPAVOX SPAIN marketing director Andres Ochaita has left the company after four years in the post 'to rest' while considering his next move, according to EMI insiders. Meanwhile, Blanca Salcedo […]

A GALA EVENING in Madrid on Thursday, Nov. 20, marks the launch of the Premios Amigo, the world's first music-award ceremony celebrating achievements by the Spanish and Latin music industries, […]

Genre Finds Growing Int'l Audience HOWELL LLEWELLYN MADRID - Two highly rated Spanish guitarists have leapt to the forefront of industry attention here with contrasting versions of a sound called […]

MADRID - A song that was transformed overnight from one of 1997's most stunning flops to Spain's surprise hit of the summer is slated to reach Latin America by Christmas […]

BMG Ariola Artist Boosted By Chieftains Connection MADRID - Celtic music based on the gaita, or Galician bagpipe, is as deeply entrenched in the damp northwestern corner of Spain as […]

MADRID - Spanish 'popular roots' music is likely to receive a significant boost in the Latin American and Latin U.S. markets, as well as in Spain itself, following the formation […]

Country Boasts Almost 1,000 Imprints MADRID - Spain has more indie labels than anywhere else in Europe, according to Teddy Bautista, president of Spanish authors' society SGAE. Though many fail, […]

HAVANA - In these trying times for Cuba, the country's music industry has received a double shot in the arm. Spain's society of authors and editors, SGAE, has become the […]

MADRID - Arcade Music Company Spain has acquired 100% of one of Spain's largest indie labels, Divucsa, and is this month launching its first domestic roster, in line with the [...]

MADRID - A group of rowdy soccer fans singing a tuneless chant in support of their team was the kickoff to an advertising campaign by Spain's authors' rights society SGAE […]

MADRID--The Canary Islands-based indie label Manzana Discos is using its position as Europe's leading importer of salsa music from the U.S. and the Caribbean to attempt an unprecedented 'musical meeting […]

Madrid - When Miguel Poveda began recording his first studio album in December, he became the latest flamenco singer from the far northern region of Catalonia to show that the […]

MADRID--A most unholy row has erupted here with the publication by two former monks of a book of what they claim are their arrangements of the chart-topping Gregorian chants recorded […]

Spain's best-selling artists over the past 16 months or so are nearly all veterans of the 1980s, which was the first decade that Spanish pop/rock came into its own as […]

MADRID--A low-key Spanish band that sold more domestic copies of its last record in 1990 than any other act in Spain is odds-on favorite to repeat the performance in 1993. […]

November has been a special month for Spanish pop singer Luz Casal: Not only did she receive rave reviews for two shows Nov. 11-12 at Paris' Chatelet Theater, on Nov. [...]

Spanish singer David Bisbal has registered this year's biggest first-week album shipment in Spain at more than 120,000 copies, or double-platinum, with 36,000-plus retail sales, according to the Media Control [...]

Spanish singer Bebe returns June 30 with her second album, 'Y.' (EMI), ending a five-year silence that at times looked like a premature retirement. 'I'm bursting to get back,' she [...]

Pop-rock band Vetusta Morla was a triple winner at Spain's 13th Premios de la Musica music awards, announced Feb. 26 in Madrid. The Sonobox/PIAS act won awards for best new [...]

DAVID BLANCO Current release: 'Despechao' (Bis Music/Latin Soul) Manager: Seju Monzon, Madrid Multi-instrumentalist David Blanco 'is now the only really popular Cuban star who doesn't play reggaeton,' his Madrid-based producer/manager [...]

MADRID -- The 500-year-old cultural, linguistic and historical bridge linking Spain and Latin America has shrunk to the size of a mobile phone, at least in terms of music sales. [...]

PLANETAS SWEET: Some 15 years after pioneering flamenco singer Camaron de la Isla died of cancer at 41, Spanish alternative rock outfit Los Planetas has been paying tribute to him [...]

Warner Music Spain international exploitation manager Adriana Gonzalez reckons Miguel Bose's long-awaited U.S. breakthrough album is 'possibly the most ambitious project in the history of Spanish music.' The album is [...]

SPANISH RAP: Spain has its first No. 1 hip-hop album. Hailing from the northern city of Zaragoza, Violadores del Verso's 'Vivir Para Contarlo' (Boa Music) entered Spain's Media Control charts [...]

LONDON--With the recent reassessment of its operations and several management changes--including the appointment of a new COO--BMG Europe is confident that it has weathered the storm and is set to [...]

UNIVERSAL MUSIC ESPANA (UME) has named Universal's former local head of A&R, Nacho Saenz de Tejada, to the same role in the newly merged Universal/PolyGram and has revealed plans to […]

MADRID--Spain's music industry was one of the fastest-growing last year, with a huge leap in sales of domestic, Latin and Anglo-European product, which saw Spain climb into 10th place in […]

MADRID--Virgin Records Espana is launching a major expansion of its operations in Spain, with the creation of two imprints this fall and the signing of several local and international acts--although […]

Bidding War Follows Act's Platinum Debut Album MADRID-Spain's hottest indie band, Dover, has been signed by EMI Chrysalis Spain after months of hard bargaining with several majors. That itself followed […]

Spanish Label To Distribute Island's Music Worldwide HAVANA - Approximately 5,000 young Cubans marked the presentation of the first non-Cuban label based on the island with a sellout concert of […]