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| | Sony Music, BMG to duet |
 | | Sony Corp. and Bertelsmann AG became the first to strike in the long-looming music merger race as the two media conglomerates said Thursday they have signed a nonbinding letter of intent to merge their recorded music operations, Sony Music Entertainment and BMG, to form the world's second largest music label, Sony BMG. | | | Sony has been making efforts to turn around its business, which is the second-largest music label globally. | | | Sony's music division in particular has been struggling for a couple of years, with sales and profits down, Morningstar analyst David Kathman said. |
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| | Sony has Licensed a Copy of Rolando's Jaguar to BMG Without Permission |
| | Sony opted to pass the buck to BMG executives, who have signed the producers of the cover track, "Jaguar" to their label, and the infraction against Rolando grows in scope with the compact disc and vinyl release on BMG. | | | Sony Germany actually released both remixes and a cover version of "Jaguar" in retail stores internationally in late December, containing no reference to the original recording. | | | Sony wrote that it intended to release a "tone by tone" cover version of the underground hit smash. |
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| | Sony, BMG to merge music interests |
| | A MERGER OF Sony Music Entertainment and Bertelsmann& BMG would bring together the world’s No. 2 and No. 5 music companies as the industry struggles with losses blamed on music piracy. | | | Sony Music Entertainment’s labels include Columbia, Epic, and Sony Classical, and it is home to pop artists including Bruce Springsteen, Beyonce Knowles and Celine Dion. | | | Among the stars on BMG’s various labels are the Dave Matthews Band, Christina Aguilera, Alicia Keys, Avril Lavigne and the late Elvis Presley |
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| | Muse's Muse Songwriting Message Board -> Sony/BMG complete merger |
| | Sony's recorded music business in Japan, SMEJ, was also not part of the new joint venture. | | | BMG and Sony announced plans to merge their music businesses last year. | | | "Sony BMG recognizes both the importance of cultural businesses in Canada and the need for economic growth and employment opportunities for Canadians," said Lisa Zbitnew, President of Sony BMG Music (Canada) Inc. "We are committed to bringing Canadian artists and Canadian music to new audiences here and abroad. |
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| | Fool.com: When Aging Music Companies Merge [Motley Fool Take] July 20, 2004 |
| | His band was signed by Sony's Columbia Records. | | | Piracy seems as though it will be a way of life for the music industry, and while Apple's efforts have been commendable, it's simply serving the role of the honor system when it comes to digital delivery. | | | Working together toward the goals that matter in the new century doesn't mean having to learn new songs -- only learning to sing the old ones in a new way. |
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| | FAQ SONY BMG MUSIC (CANADA) INC. |
| | SONY BMG produces pre-recorded music (CDs, Tapes), not Sony hardware products. | | | No. SONY BMG MUSIC (CANADA) INC. has no affiliation with BMG Music Service other than it is owned by the one of the same parent companies. | | | Is SONY BMG MUSIC (CANADA) INC. the same as BMG Music Service? |
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| | EC approves merger of Sony, BMG |
| | The project, which will be test-run in Germany starting next month, will see BMG release, in addition to its regularly priced discs, stripped-down versions of its CDs -- with no cover art and song titles printed on the disc -- for €9.99 ($12.43). | | | Sony Music Entertainment Europe is reportedly considering a similar sales action for the fall. | | | COLOGNE, Germany -- The European Commission on Monday approved the merger of Sony Music with Bertelsmann Music Group to create Sony BMG -- an industry juggernaut with combined sales of more than $8 billion and about 25% of the world's music market. |
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| | The Big Sony BMG Pirate Battle : Gizmodo |
| | Sony BMG is unveiling a new CD technology to provide a “speed bump” for those nasty pirates. | | | Sony BMG hinders music pirates with protected CD [Reuters] | | | Legal problems are already arising, though; the protected rip format forbids the music from being put onto the Apple iPod, so BMG is sending emails to inquiring customers with instructions on a backdoor route around this problem. |
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| | SONY BMG Music Entertainment |
| | Sony BMG Music Entertainment will be 50% owned by Bertelsmann and 50% owned by Sony Corporation of America. | | | Sony BMG Music Entertainment will combine the best creative, operational and strategic assets of two very accomplished music businesses, and provide a vital new platform to further the development of talent and enjoyment of music around the world. | | | Sony BMG Music Entertainment will be governed by a Board of Directors consisting of six representatives of Bertelsmann and Sony. |
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| | The Observer Business EC prepares to block £2.7bn BMG-Sony deal |
| | Sony is already the world's second-largest music group and BMG is the smallest of the five majors. | | | The case against the proposed £2.7 billion merger of music companies BMG and Sony Music will be outlined by the European Commission within weeks. | | | BMG, owned by Germany's Bertelsmann, and Sony's music arm, unveiled plans to merge in November last year. |
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| | "SONY" and "BMG," as used in the name "SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT," and in the SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT logo, are trademarks of, and are used under license from, Sony Corporation and Bertelsmann AG, respectively. |
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| | Sony Music and BMG To Merge – Warner Music Is Likely Next |
| | This holiday season BMG has a handful of very good, Gen-X oriented DVD-Audio titles (Foo Fighters, Outkast) slated for release however with their new affiliation with Sony Music it has yet to be said whether BMG will start releasing their new and or back catalog titles in SACD. | | | Sony Music and BMG To Merge – Warner Music Is Likely Next | | | EMI is a supporter of DVD-Audio in the U.S. but has deals with Sony Music to release SACD titles like Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon via its U.K. parent company. |
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| | UR vs. Sony/BMG - Part 1 |
| | Sony will not release it on CD maxi or compilations or licence the track to other companies. | | | Although small and in the eyes of Sony and BMG unimportant, UR showed that there is indeed a strong community of music lovers who is ready to fight any corporate takeover attempts of underground music. | | | In reality, Sony backed out of this project only to sign the original producers of their cover version to BMG, the Bertelsmann Music Group, one of the four biggest record labels in the world. |
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| | SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT :: SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT Creates SONY BMG Masterworks |
| | SONY BMG Masterworks will also oversee the extensive combined SONY BMG Broadway catalogue and will be responsible for future cast recordings as well as orchestral film score recordings. | | | The primary focus of SONY BMG Masterworks will be on classical music in the traditional sense. | | | "SONY BMG believes in a positive future for the classical music business and has tremendous confidence in Gilbert's vision for SONY BMG Masterworks," commented Mr. |
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| | Music merger to create new giant label Tech News on ZDNet |
| | BMG artists include Norah Jones, Elvis Presley, Beyonce and Lenny Kravitz. | | | Sony and BMG have had different strategies in dealing with online music. | | | Showing signs of a music business struggling to adapt to new digital realities, Sony Music and the Bertelsmann Music Group agreed Thursday to create a new joint venture, merging the second- and fifth-largest record labels into a single entity. |
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| | NodeWorks - Arts & Entertainment: Music: Labels: Sony BMG |
| | A recently merged mega corporation, Sony BMG is comprised largely of the recorded music labels of Sony Music and BMG (the former Bertelsmann's Company), more than twenty. | | | Information about the labels and artists of Sony's music division. | | | In Japan, Bertelsmann's recorded music division will be included in the joint venture but Sony's will be kept separate. |
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| | SONY BMG |
| | An artist-friendly record company, Sony BMG signs, produces, manufactures, markets, sells and distributes recorded music. | | | The environment is filled with music history, including Juno Awards, platinum records and artist pictures ranging from past to present. | | | Keeping it all in house, our head office includes a recording studio, writer's room, gym, video post-production room, CD manufacturing plant, presentation theatre, cafeteria, sound stage (for surprise lunchtime concerts!) and a Sony playstation. |
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| | ABC News: Sony BMG inks deal with Mashboxx |
| | Snocap has deals in place with all four major music labels — Vivendi's Universal Music, Sony BMG, EMI and Warner Music. | | | The companies said on Wednesday that Sony BMG songs will cost $0.99 each, in line with the price charged by Apple's market-leading iTunes online music store. | | | Rosso said on Wednesday that negotiations are under way with the other music majors as well as a number of independents. |
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| | BBC NEWS Business Sony and BMG merger backed by EU |
| | Sony and Bertelsmann's proposed marriage would create the world's second largest record label, behind Universal Music, despite the deal excluding Sony's recorded music business in Japan. | | | Japanese Sony and German Bertelsmann are the second and fifth biggest record companies worldwide. | | | The deal will bring together under one roof Sony stars such as Barbara Streisand and Beyonce and BMG stars, including Elvis Presley and Christina Aguilera. |
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| | Guardian Unlimited The Guardian Sony and BMG face indie music |
| | Sony and BMG argue that the merger is necessary to cope with the effects of a fall in sales of recorded music and the impact of internet piracy. | | | An unlikely alliance of independent record companies, Apple Computers and small music shops has been arguing in Brussels that the planned tie-up between music firms Sony and BMG would increase the major record companies' stranglehold on the market. | | | Between them the two firms control about 20% of the recorded music market while the big five control about 80%. |
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| | BBC NEWS Business Music firms hopeful of EU backing |
| | A joint statement from Sony and BMG called the talks "constructive" adding they were "confident their presentations on the business environment of the music industry and the nature of music as a cultural product was understood". | | | Impala, a group of independent record producers, told the EU they would suffer if the number of major record companies was cut from five to four. | | | They also argue that consolidation in the sector is inevitable in the face of competition from DVDs and other media, piracy and the challenge of the online environment. |
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| | A Major Change In Their Tunes (TechNews.com) |
| | Battling declining CD sales, falling profits and pervasive piracy, three of the music industry's five biggest companies are adopting radically different strategies to revive their flagging fortunes. | | | Universal is the largest, capturing about 26 percent of the market so far this year, according to Nielsen SoundScan, which tracks music sales. | | | The industry blames the falloff on illegal Internet file-sharing and bootlegged CDs, though others outside the companies said consumers have been alienated by high CD prices and a rash of uninteresting artists. |
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| | Stereophile: Done Deal: Sony BMG |
| | Among the artists on the Sony BMG roster are big revenue generators such as Britney Spears, OutKast, and Travis Tritt, as well as back-catalog favorites such as Johnny Cash, Miles Davis, Elvis Presley, and Stevie Ray Vaughan. | | | Well-known subsidiary record labels RCA and J Records (BMG) and Epic and Columbia Records (Sony) are expected to retain some autonomy and individual identity. | | | Sony's Japanese music business, SMEJ, was also excluded from the deal. |
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| | The Japan Times Online |
| | Last December, Sony Music Entertainment, the world's No. 2 music group, and BMG, No. 5, reached a final agreement to set up a 50-50 joint venture that will be called Sony BMG. | | | But the joint venture excludes music publishing and CD production as well as Sony's music business in Japan. | | | "We remain confident that the European Commission will ultimately find that the Sony BMG joint venture is a procompetitive response to the challenges faced by the recorded music industry," Sony Music Entertainment said. |
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| | p2pnet.net - the original daily p2p and digital media news site |
| | Sony Corporation's recorded music business in Japan, SMEJ, would also be excluded. | | | In December 2003, the two giants signed a binding agreement to combine their recorded music businesses in a joint venture. | | | The deal wouldn't include the parent companies' businesses in music publishing, physical distribution and manufacturing. |
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| | Sony BMG Music Entertainment - Fact Sheet - Hoover's |
| | Sony BMG Music Entertainment - Fact Sheet - Hoover's | | | The company operates primarily through its stable of recording labels, such as Columbia, Epic, J Records, Jive, LaFace, and RCA. | | | There's nothing sweeter than when media conglomerates make beautiful music together. |
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| | Sony BMG looking to cash in off P2P |
| | Sony drops CD copy protection in Japan (3 October 2004) | | | Sony to announce development of 200GB Blu-ray disc (21 September 2004) | | | The new P2P services would be "label friendly" and would also feature some form of DRM protection to protect label owned music. |
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| | Sony Wonder - Home |
| | "Sony Wonder" and Sony Wonder logo are trademarks of Sony Corporation. |
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| | FTC Approves Sony-BMG (washingtonpost.com) |
| | In 2002, the five major music companies -- Sony, BMG, Universal, EMI and Warner Music Group -- paid $143 million to settle a class-action lawsuit alleging CD price fixing in the 1990s, though the companies did not admit guilt. | | | The joint-venture merger includes only Sony's and BMG's recorded music divisions, leaving publishing divisions separate. | | | The Federal Trade Commission yesterday cleared a planned merger between Sony Music Entertainment Inc. and BMG Entertainment, removing the last major hurdle to a partnership that will create the world's largest music company. |
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| | RollingStone.com: Dido : Sony, BMG Complete Merger : News |
| | Sony Corp. and German multi-media company Bertelsmann AG have finalized the merger of their music units to form Sony BMG Music Entertainment this week. | | | The new company becomes the second largest record company in the world behind the Universal Music Group. | | | The new deal will fuse Columbia's roster -- which includes vets like Bruce Springsteen and Bob Dylan, along with newcomers like Jennifer Lopez -- with that of BMG's labels including Arista, J Records and RCA, represented by OutKast, Usher, Justin Timberlake, Alicia Keys, Dido and the Strokes. |
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| | USATODAY.com - Sony, BMG say they have music merger |
| | The leaders of Sony and Bertelsmann are portraying their plan to merge their music operations as a marriage made in heaven. | | | The deal excludes music publishing and CD production, as well as Sony's recorded-music business in Japan. | | | And the venture would be the No. 1 music company in the USA, with market share of 30%, based on 2003 sales, vs. 29% for Universal Music, according to Nielsen SoundScan. |
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| | BW Online July 12, 2004 Imagine Sony On Steroids |
| | As for the music business, Sony is hustling to catch up with the likes of Apple Computer Inc.'s ( AAPL) iTunes. | | | To promote its own format, Sony intends to start shipping versions of its movies on DVD and Blu-Ray in 2005, according to industry insiders. | | | Film sales, meanwhile, fell 40%, to $320 million, off its Spider-Man -charged year, and music revenues struggled in the face of piracy and dwindling market share. |
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| | CNN.com - Sony, BMG agree on music merger - Nov. 7, 2003 |
| | Sony Music and BMG say they plan to combine their music units in a move that could trigger further consolidation as the industry grapples with weak retail sales, online file-sharing and fierce competition with other forms of entertainment. | | | The 50-50 joint venture combines No. 2 Sony, which includes such artists as Beyonce Knowles and Bruce Springsteen, with No. 5 BMG, a unit of German media firm Bertelsmann that is home to Britney Spears and Elvis Presley. | | | CNN.com - Sony, BMG agree on music merger - Nov. 7, 2003 |
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| | Sony, Bertelsmann agree to merge music labels The Register |
| | Sony and Bertelsmann have agreed to merge their two music operations into a single business and potentially create the world's largest music label. | | | Sony, Bertelsmann agree to merge music labels | | | If their talks go the way of Sony and BMG's, and they too gain regulatory approval, then the world will end up with three major labels and an almost perfect four-way split between them and the collected independent labels, which together account for around 25 per cent of the world music market. |
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| | Sony - BMG wedding hit by EC spoiler The Register |
| | Sony and Bertelsmann Music Group (BMG) have denied that they work together to fix CD prices and that a merger of the two record companies would reduce competition. | | | Sony music download service to launch in June | | | Sony - BMG wedding hit by EC spoiler |
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| | Apple (UK and Ireland) - iTunes - Music Store |
| | The iTunes Music Store features hundreds of thousands of songs from major music companies — including BMG, EMI, Sony Music Entertainment, Universal and Warner Bros — and loads of tracks from independent artists and record labels, as well. |
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| | Sony BMG Posts Fourth Quarter Numbers |
| | In the electronics business, Sony's audio revenues fell 19.4% to ´106.4 billion ($995 million), due to slumping portable audio sales amid the shift from CD players to flash and hard drive based devices. | | | Among Sony's other divisions, Sony's remaining music assets -- which include Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) and Sony ATV music publishing -- posted an operating income loss of $25 million on revenues of $366 million for the fiscal fourth quarter. | | | ABC News Radio senior news editor Jon Newman has been promoted to manager of news coverage. |
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| | RCA - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Bertelsmann AG (now Sony BMG Music Entertainment), which owns the RCA Victor and RCA Records record labels. | | | Thomson SA, which manufactures consumer electronics like RCA-branded televisions, DVD players, video cassette recorders, direct broadcast satellite decoders, camcorders, audio equipment, telephones, and related accessories; and | | | The two companies bought those assets from General Electric, which took over the RCA conglomerate in 1986 and kept RCA's NBC broadcasting interests. |
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| | Sony Music USA |
| | "Sony Music" and Sony Music logo are trademarks of, and are used under license from, Sony Corporation. | | | This Internet website is the property of Sony BMG Music Entertainment. | | | References to "Sony BMG", "Sony BMG Online Services", or "this website" shall also be deemed to be references to Sony BMG Music Entertainment. |
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| | BBC NEWS Business Sony-BMG deal gets US go-ahead |
| | The two argue that they need to join forces to tackle the crisis in the global music industry which has been hit hard by the explosion of illegal music downloading and proliferation of pirate CDs. | | | But the merger does not include Sony's recorded music business in Japan. | | | The world's second and fifth largest music firms announced plans to unite in November last year, saying the deal would be a merger of equals. |
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| | Music industry's Verizon appeal denied - PittsburghLIVE.com |
| | The recording industry group's members include Paris-based Vivendi's Universal Music, the world's largest record company; New York-based Sony BMG, formed when Germany's Bertelsmann AG and Sony combined their recorded music units; London-based EMI, home of singer Norah Jones; and Warner Music Group, headed by Edgar Bronfman Jr. | | | At issue in yesterday's case was the procedure record companies can use to get the names of Internet subscribers who swap music unlawfully. | | | Sony Corp. started its Sony Connect music service in May, and retailers such as Wal-Mart Stores Inc. also offer fee-based online music services. |
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| | Cdigix Announces Launches for Fall at Purdue, Tulane, Establishing Company as the Leading Online Media Provider to ... |
| | CAN, which is led by Sony BMG Music Entertainment and other record companies, works with a wide range of legitimate online music services, and helps institutions to create programs that uniquely fit their needs, as well as the needs of their student bodies. | | | Campus Action Network (CAN) is a music industry-wide effort led by Sony BMG Music Entertainment and other record companies. | | | CAN's principal objective is to ensure that students have access to safe, legitimate digital music services, and it is working to support the launch of legitimate music services on campuses around the country. |
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| | Forbes.com: Some Indie Labels Oppose Sony-BMG Merger |
| | In an interview, Michael Haentjes of Germany's Edel Music, noted Sony Music and Bertelsmann's BMG are expected to drop some less-popular artists as they strive to achieve the hoped-for $300 million in annual savings. | | | A group of indie labels Thursday blasted Sony and Bertelsmann's plan to create the world's second-largest music company and urged European antitrust enforcers to take "severe" measures to protect diversity at a critical time for music sales. | | | The two argued Wednesday that combining their music units would be good for consumers because it would allow more money to be invested in new artists, thus promoting cultural diversity in Europe. |
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| | Sony BMG Wants $ For VOD |
| | The major label struck a VOD distribution agreement with a yet unannounced leading online portal—multiple sources tell Billboard.biz that the deal is with America Online—and is notifying all other digital music programmers they need to remove their Sony BMG video content from their services in the wake of the pact. | | | The move leaves many of the leading digital music services on the web without VOD content from Sony BMG, Universal Music Group or both. | | | While the presumed agreement between AOL and Sony BMG is understood to have an element of exclusivity, other digital music services are said to be in talks with Sony BMG for VOD pacts. |
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| | Stereophile: Sony & BMG Tie the Knot |
| | The Sony BMG deal will create the world's second largest record label, with 25.2% of the market, following only slightly behind Universal's 25.9% share. | | | The final and most important hurdle will likely be garnering the approval of both European and US competition regulatory agencies, which have blocked earlier attempts to merge any two of the world's top five music labels. | | | December 15, 2003 &; And then there were four: Sony's music division and German media company Bertelsmann, parent of the BMG record label, have decided that they've got a better chance under one roof. |
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| | Pitchfork: Daily Music News |
| | Yesterday, Sony Music and Bertelsmann Music Group (aka BMG) announced that they have merged to form the world's second largest recorded music company, coming in a close second to everyone's favorite media conglomerate, Universal Music Group. | | | The merger now leaves the music industry with just four major labels: Sony BMG, Universal Music Group, WEA, and EMI. | | | Sony BMG now controls more than 22% of the global music market, with sales totaling around $8 billion annually. |
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| | E-Commerce News: Business : EC Regulators Approve Sony-BMG Merger |
| | Sony Music Entertainment Chief Executive Officer Andrew Lack said the "creation of Sony BMG is an appropriate and necessary response to current market conditions." | | | Those conditions include eroding sales of CDs worldwide. | | | European regulators have approved the merger between Sony Music (NYSE: SNE) |
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