EMI Music

- EMI Music Publishing Promotes Dan McCarroll to Executive Vice President of East Coast Creative
- New North American Songwriter Leadership Council formed

OCTOBER 17, 2007, NEW YORK — Roger Faxon, Chairman and CEO of EMI Music Publishing worldwide today announced key executive appointments and the formation of a North American leadership group as part of a series of initiatives to reinforce the company’s unerring commitment to delivering the highest level of service to its songwriters and composers.    » read more »

12 October 2007 -- EMI Group, one of the world's leading music companies, is delighted to announce the appointment of Mark Hodgkinson to its Investor and Music Management Boards with immediate effect. Mark will become Consumer Development Director of EMI Music and will work closely with Barney Wragg, EMI's head of digital.

Mark was previously the CEO of Virgin Money and led it to become the fastest growing privately owned company in the UK.

Guy Hands, Chairman of EMI, said:    » read more »

11 October 2007 -- Parlophone is proud to announce the digital release of George Harrison’s solo catalogue which is available from now. Nine albums are initially being made available and the remainder will follow online in the new year. The release of these albums means that all four Beatles’ solo catalogues are now available digitally.

The following albums will be available through all digital service providers:

All Things Must Pass (2001 remaster)    » read more »

12 October 2007 -- EMI Group, one of the world's leading music companies, is delighted to announce the appointment of Mark Hodgkinson to its Investor and Music Management Boards with immediate effect. Mark will become Consumer Development Director of EMI Music and will work closely with Barney Wragg, EMI's head of digital.

Mark was previously the CEO of Virgin Money and led it to become the fastest growing privately owned company in the UK.

Guy Hands, Chairman of EMI, said:    » read more »

“The performance of Gustav Mahler’s 9th symphony was one of the most wonderful accomplishments of Simon Rattle as conductor of this orchestra.” -- (Berliner Zeitung)

LONDON, 1st October 2007: EMI and Virgin Classics have announced the launch of the groundbreaking EMI and Virgin Classics Club, an exclusive online environment through which classical music lovers can gain access to a range of audio and visual material. Members can strengthen ties with their favourite music and musicians, stream pre-release works and more, all as they earn Club Points redeemable for music downloads.    » read more »

LONDON, 1st October 2007 -- ilovevideo today announced it has launched the first DRM-free (Digital Rights Management-free) music video retail store. Brought to you by the creators of the award-winning music portal Video-C, ilovevideo offers consumers ownership of high quality music videos for playback via handheld devices, Macs, PCs and media centres.    » read more »

With the addition of EMI Music's digital repertoire, Weltbild.de now offers Germany's largest catalogue of higher quality, DRM-free MP3 tracks

1 October 2007 -- German online retailer Weltbild-download.de has added EMI’s premium quality, downloads, which come without Digital Rights Management (DRM) restrictions, to its music catalogue. The tracks are available as 320kb/s MP3 files and are on sale now.    » read more »

Amazon.com launches public beta of Amazon MP3, a digital music store offering customers earth's biggest selection of a la carte DRM-free MP3 music downloads

LONDON, September 20, 2007 –- 24-7 Entertainment, Europe’s leading B2B digital music provider announced today that it has made EMI Music’s higher quality DRM-free catalogue available to its extensive network of digital store partners. The first retailer in 24-7’s network to release EMI’s DRM-free catalogue was Weltbild, one of Germany’s largest online media retailers, followed by online music giant, CDON, in the Nordic region. Other partners are scheduled to follow shortly    » read more »