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THE CITY WAS STARTING TO BE KNOWN AS THE NATION'S PREMIER ENTERTAINMENT CENTER BEFORE THE TURN OF THE LAST CENTURY. AS THE NEXT ONE APPROACHES, NYC RETAINS ITS CACHET AS […]

NEW YORK - In July 1994, Warner Music Group experienced the first of several implosions that would rock the company for more than a year. Elektra Records' longtime chairman, Bob […]

Although market researcher SoundScan reports that unit sales of albums on compact disc increased 13.7% - to 210.4 million units this year through July 14 - over the same period […]

What do a group that disbanded more than a quarter of a century ago, a current country music sensation, and a rapper who was slain last year have in common? […]

New York became a wellspring of musical artists for the recording industry about the time that the Broadway theaters began to develop native talent. One of the first was George […]

DANA POINT, Calif. - Although PolyGram Group Distribution (PGD) has won the award from the National Assn. of Recording Merchandisers for best branch distributor four years in a row, PGD […]

38-Store Mich. Chain Has Sound Principles NEW YORK - Fifty years ago Carl Thom, fresh out of the Army and a 20-year-old student at Wayne State University, took his $500 […]

NEW YORK - Consumer electronics retailers, whose loss-leader CD pricing strategy has been cited by many music chains as exacerbating the current crisis in music retailing, have foundered in the […]

But Future Depends On Sell-through And Non-Video Product Although the numbers may indicate that video rental is a mature business unlikely to exhibit the growth of previous years, video retailers […]

PolyGram is a London-based entertainment conglomerate that is 75% owned by Eindhoven, Netherlands-based Philips Electronics. Its worldwide music sales for the year that ended Dec. 31, 1995, were $4.7 billion, […]

EMI Music is the worldwide music subsidiary of Thorn EMI PLC, a London-based company that will spin off EMI as a separate public company in an August stock offering. Global […]

Retailer Grows With Hi-Tech Internal Systems PROVIDENCE, R.I. - The theme for the 1995 Strawberries management conference was 'all systems go.' For the past year, the retailer has been upgrading […]

Many music retailers and distributors believe the time has come for 'quick response' product replenishment. Big discount chains like Wal-mart have had great success in using this system with many […]

Consolidation in the video retailing industry has been driving growth in recent years, and it shows no signs of subsiding. With an estimated 35,000 video stores in the U.S., and […]

New York - A persistent price war has depressed the stock prices of music retailers, chopping more than half a billion dollars in market value from companies like Musicland Stores, […]

MIAMI BEACH, Fla.--The high-living South Beach section of this sun-drenched, storm-tossed barrier island began to turn around four years ago. What once was a dilapidated and dangerous neighborhood of shuttered […]

Faced With Multiple Formats And Increasing Workloads, Some Replicators Depend On Parents And Partners For The Necessary Finances In the CD replication business, it pays to have a partner or […]

NEW YORK--Karaoke, which is catching on at retail across the U.S., remains a market looking for a standard format. Consumers who are interested in electronic singalong at home are confused […]

R&B Retailers Form Coalitions, Employ Special Service In Battle For Survival independent retailers who specialize in R&B music have found that by banding together they can get the labels to […]

Gospel and contemporary Christian music has been breaking out of its traditional retail market--the Christian bookstores--and moving into mainstream music outlets. The reasons include the crossover success of artists like […]

NEW YORK--Harry Nilsson, the two-time Grammy-winning singer/songwriter who died Jan. 15 at the age of 52, is likely to stir memories for old fans and capture a new legion of [...]

Professional recording studios are resorting to a variety of methods to keep the home recording studios off their turf. For some, it means going after work that can't be done […]

NEW YORK--With the recent changes in wholesale music prices by Uni Distribution Corp., four of the Big Six recording companies have now announced new pricing and returns policies for retailers […]

LAS VEGAS--Although video retailers were warned often at the annual VSDA convention that video-on-demand, in various forms, is inevitable, many of them say they do not perceive it as a […]

New President Named Bertelsmann was expected to announce Jan. 5 that Rolf Schmidt-Holtz, its chief creative officer, would be the new president/CEO of major music company BMG Entertainment. In what [...]

Arista president Clive Davis is a native of Brooklyn who attended New York University and Harvard Law School. After his studies, he joined the Rosenman Colin law firm and then [...]

Indie chains compete with the majors and give them a run for the money Retail coalitions, formed several years ago to give independent music stores the clout that big chains [...]

NEW YORK--Illustrating the threat to the entertainment industry of Internet piracy, Michael Eisner, chairman/CEO of the Walt Disney Co., has warned that the growth of entertainment on the Web will [...]

Estimates suggest there are more than 1,000 musical artists worldwide who fit the criteria for such loans. The total music market could be $200 million to $400 million a year. [...]

Music Group, Columbia House Bring Losses NEW YORK--Warner Music Group's revenue and profit declined in the first quarter as its domestic market share fell. In addition, parent company Time Warner [...]

ONE OF THE first markets for recorded music online was the customized compilation. Companies like Supersonic Boom, CustomDisc, and Musicmaker.com began to build businesses that gave consumers the opportunity to [...]

NEW YORK--While the Warner Music Group finally acknowledged publicly that it has signed a consent decree that would eliminate its minimum-advertised-price (MAP) policies (Billboard Bulletin, April 5), the other four [...]

SONY CORP. HAS REORGANIZED its U.S.-based entertainment businesses into a holding company, Sony Broadband Entertainment (SBE), which is charged with seeking new business opportunities in the digital age. Sir Howard [...]

THE CITY OF NEW YORK has offered tax breaks to Universal Music Group (UMG) and Jupiter Communications to keep the former's E-commerce operations and the latter's headquarters in the city. [...]

NEW YORK--Myplay, the online music company that allows consumers to create digital 'lockers' for their music collections that can be accessed anytime from any Internet connection, has signed a two-year [...]

NEW YORK--Speculation about a possible $100 billion merger involving Seagram's entertainment operations gave a quick boost to the company's stock, but sharp denials of a deal drove shares back down [...]

NEW YORK--With record-breaking first-week sales of 2.4 million units, 'N Sync's 'No Strings Attached' continues to be a strong sales driver for Jive Records at retail stores in its second [...]

ISLAND/DEF JAM ACT Hanson is launching a Web site, Hanson.net, and an Internet service provider on Wednesday (29), through David Bowie's online marketing company, UltraStar Internet Services. Users of the [...]

MOST RECORD STORES don't take the time to count the number of people who walk out empty-handed nor find out why. But if they did, they might be unpleasantly surprised. [...]

NEW YORK--The decision by CDnow Inc. and the Columbia House record club to scrap their planned merger ends one of the most controversial music combinations ever proposed--the marriage of two [...]

THERE IS a fair amount of good news for brick-and-mortar merchants in recent research on the impact of the Internet. A group of 1,400 consumers was asked by E-commerce research [...]

SAN ANTONIO--All five major manufacturers of music are prepared to start shipping source-tagged CDs to their accounts by next month at the latest, industry sources say, now that the supply [...]

TICKETS.COM, an online consumer ticketing agency for live events, is launching a service this month in Las Vegas that will allow concertgoers to pick up at automated teller machines (ATM) [...]

CONSUMER research will be in abundant supply at this year's National Assn. of Recording Merchandisers (NARM) convention, scheduled Sunday-Thursday (27-2) in San Antonio. Although there is no session on research [...]

Traditional Retailers Capitalize On Their Strengths, Apply Them To Their Online Sales Efforts Click-and-mortar, clicks-and-bricks--whatever you call these hybrid retailers--they are angling to grab a bigger slice of the ever-growing [...]

Research Firms Predict Growth; Only Question Is How Much As the music industry moves inexorably toward the Internet, several companies have sprouted up to analyze the digital- music business and [...]