By Hans Ebert It’s reached a point where it’s not even a case of Them versus Us. It’s finally come around to how to get around legalese that were questionable from the start, but which many were too timid to question, especially at those tribal gatherings of wannabe big swinging dicks who would waltz in [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Sony Music’
MUSIC AND THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS
Posted: 5th November 2016 by We-Enhance in EMI, Entertainment Industry, India Music Market, MUSIC AND POLITICS, Marketing, Music, Music Industry, Music Marketing, Music Matters, iTunesTags: Alain Levy, David Munns, EMI, EMI Music, Guy Hands, MARIAH CAREY, Napster, Robbie Williams, Sony Music, UNIVERSAL MUSIC, Warner Music
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SETTING SAIL ON MEMORY BLISS (BUT NOT DWELLING ON THE PAST)
Posted: 19th June 2016 by We-Enhance in Marketing, Music, Music Industry, Music Marketing, iTunesTags: Calvin Harris, Calvin Klein, Katie Holmes, KIM KARDASHIAN, Perez Hilton, Sony Music, Taylor Swift, Tom Hiddlestone, Tony Visconti
By Hans Ebert You really don’t want to get drawn into the soap opera surrounding the characters involved, but there’s no escaping any of it. None of it has anything to do with music, but social media has sadly made the most stupid of things become news- and in a roundabout instance, this has become [...]
THE $284 ROYALTY CHEQUE AND WHAT’S LUCIAN GRAINGE GOING TO DO ABOUT IT?
Posted: 10th September 2015 by We-Enhance in ASIAN MUSIC INDUSTRY, Asia, BEN SEMMENS, Hong Kong, Hong Kong Music Industry, Music, Music Industry, iTunesTags: Ben Semmens, Hans Ebert, Saving The Music, Sony Music, Universal Music Publishing
My friend Ben Semmens and I received a Royalty cheque last week from Universal Music Publishing in Hong Kong for HK$284. This was after months of hounding the publishing house for a statement of “monies earned to date” for our song called “Home”, not the most original of titles in this hashtag and Google-centric world, [...]
KIMYE, AVRIL, GOOP AND FAKED OUT HELLO KITTY FODDER
Posted: 27th May 2014 by We-Enhance in American Idol, Marketing, Music, Music Industry, Music Marketing, Music MattersTags: "THE VOICE", 19 Recordings, Alexa Jung, American Idol, Avril Lavigne, Chris Martin, Elton John, Fall Out Boy, goop, Gwynth Paltrow, Harry Styles, Hello Kitty, Kanye West, Kim Kardashian wedding, One Direction, Robert Kardashian, Sony Music
Now that life as we know it has ground to a halt following the second coming of Yeesus and his marriage to Betty Boomba Kardashian- and an uneasy and surprising roaring silence about it all even from those purveyors of all things mediocre- where does one go to live again? Well, the fallout from the [...]
THE HOLE IN THE DONUT FACTOR
Posted: 3rd February 2013 by We-Enhance in A&R, ASIAN MUSIC INDUSTRY, Asia, Beatles, China Entertainment Industry, China Music Market, EMI, India Music Market, Music, Music Industry, Music Marketing, SIMON FULLER, Simon CowellTags: A&R, Adele, Eric Nicoli, Guy Hands, One Direction, Simon Cowell, Simon Fuller, Sony Music, the Billboard charts, The Pogues
The Pogues played a surprise gig in Hong Kong- and possibly other cities- last week. The real surprise is that no one knew about the gig. Here lies the problem: Too many out there with lovely ideas which they are either financially unable to or else don’t have the experience to turn into reality- and [...]
HOW “AMERICAN IDOL” SILENCED SIMON COWELL.
Posted: 19th May 2011 by We-Enhance in American Idol, Music IndustryTags: "American Idol" Season 10, "The X Factor", Jennifer Lopez, Jimmy Iovine, Simon Cowell, Simon Fuller, Sony Music, Steven Tyler, UNIVERSAL MUSIC, will i am
Season 10 of “American Idol” will go down as the year when no one missed Simon Cowell on the show. There is a clever promo spot running in the region and which talks about the new judges and ends with the line, “Who misses Simon Says?” and which ends with three X-Factor crosses symbolising that [...]
“AMERICAN IDOL” AND, THANKFULLY, NO “CROCODILE ROCK”.
Posted: 31st March 2011 by We-Enhance in UncategorizedTags: "American Idol" Season 10, Adam Lambert, BERNIE TAUPIN, Casey Abrams, Elton John, Jacob Lusk, James Durbin, Jimmy Iovine, PAUL MCDONALD, Sony Music, Steven Tyler, TAIO CRUZ AND COCA COLA
Quite a few people have asked, “Mate/Man/Dude/Hey, why do you write so much about ‘American Idol?’ Does anyone really care?’” I don’t just think so, I know so ‘cos the “views” go waaaaay up plus, love it or not, there is no way one an ignore the show. When the history books are written or [...]
“AMERICAN IDOL” WILL FAIL WITHOUT SIMON COWELL? YEAH?
Posted: 5th March 2011 by We-Enhance in American IdolTags: "American Idol" Season 10, Jennifer Lopez, Jimmy Iovine, PAUL MCDONALD, Randy Jackson, RYAN SEACREST, Simon Cowell, Sony Music, Steven Tyler, UNIVERSAL MUSIC
The ratings for “American Idol” on Thursday was THE HIGHEST in FOUR YEARS for the FOX channel and makes all those naysayers who did the voodoo dance, proclaimed that “The End Is Night” and said the show was kaput without “Mr Nasty”. It made me think of the line from Mark Twain: “Rumours of my [...]
WHO WANTS A FORMER “AMERICAN IDOL”?
Posted: 6th February 2011 by We-Enhance in American IdolTags: "American Idol" Season 10, American Idol, Clay Aiken, Ruuben Studdard, Simon Cowell, Sony Music, Taylor Hicks, UNIVERSAL MUSIC
It was a matter of time though it has taken longer than expected. Guess partnerships kept things from splitting at the seams. But now, former “Idol” contestants are being dropped by their record labels, especially those who won recording contracts with Sony Music after winning on the television talent show. These signings being dropped have [...]
DID SONY MUSIC GIVE “AMERICAN IDOL” A BAD RAP?
Posted: 5th February 2011 by We-Enhance in American IdolTags: "American Idol" Season 10, Heidi Kzham, Jimmy Iovine, Jimmy Webb, John Wayne Shulz, Katherine McPhee, Mark and Aaron Gutierrez, Nicole Sherzingher, Nigel Lythgoe, Pussycat Dolls, Ruben Studdard, Simon Cowell, Sony Music, UNIVERSAL MUSIC
I read recently where Nigel Lythgoe, Executive Producer of “American Idol”, made a comment about Sony Music and how the company had not properly marketed nor taken the musical career of Ruuben Studdard in the right direction. Lythgoe,below, mentioned something along the lines that instead of focusing on the former Season 2 Finalist taking the [...]