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Apple Finally Starts Selling Beatles Songs Through iTunes

Michael Fowlkes — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 17:30:00 EST

Filed under: Forecasts, Deals, Good news, Products and Services, Consumer Experience, Competitive Strategy, Apple Inc (AAPL), Wal-Mart (WMT), Amazon.com (AMZN), Media World, Technology

There are definitely a lot of happy Beatles fans out there today, as Apple Inc. (AAPL) announced that it would finally be selling Beatles material through its iTunes store.

Fans have been waiting, not-so-patiently, for this to happen for years now, and today it has finally arrived. Apple wrote on its website that "In 1964, the band that changed everything came to America. Now they're on iTunes."

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Apple September Media Event Points to New iTunes Strategy

Tobias Buckell — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 17:00:00 EST

Filed under: Apple Inc (AAPL)

Apple, Inc. (AAPL) has been trying to negotiate a new pricing approach with media companies, and Apple watchers are anticipating a September 1st media event will be where Apple announces new iTunes strategies. What might these be? The September 1st event has a picture of a guitar, indicating it has a music focus, which has lead people to thinking Apple will be announcing some form of subscription based streaming music package.

Since Apple has been negotiating with Disney for a 99 cent 'rental' price point for TV shows, other analysts are guessing that Apple may also reveal this new pricing strategy for watching individual TV episodes. Right now TV episodes are purchasable, for $1.99 in standard definition or $2.99 for high definition episodes. Creating a 99 cent rentable episode breaks a customer price barrier, and could lead to more traffic.

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Live Nation: Buy or Avoid After Q4 Performance?

Steven Mallas — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 12:10:00 EST

Filed under: Earnings Reports

Live Nation Entertainment (LYV), a business centered on music concerts, one that counts Madonna and U2 among its portfolio of artists, promoted its fourth-quarter numbers earlier in the week. After browsing the data, and considering comments on guidance, I'm not sure I would want to buy the stock, even after seeing that it closed on Friday at a 52-week high.

According to BusinessWeek, Live Nation booked an operating loss of $64 million during the three-month period (adjusted operating income was positive, however). Sales went down well over 4%. Free cash flow for the full year, though, as detailed in a table right at the beginning of the press release, came in at nearly $59 million. That table also provides financial information for Ticketmaster, which recently merged with Live Nation.

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Wall Street hates Warner Music Group's Q4 report

Steven Mallas — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:00:00 EST

Filed under: Earnings Reports, Apple Inc (AAPL), Amazon.com (AMZN)

Warner Music Group (WMG) was out of favor with the market today. At the time of this writing, shares of the company were down over 16% on big volume. Wall Street did not appreciate the fourth-quarter release.

According to TheStreet.com, a loss, on an adjusted basis, of 3 cents per share was recorded. Analysts were hoping for a profit of 5 cents per share. The cited article goes on to report a not-so-comforting outlook for the near future. And in further bad news, TheFlyOnTheWall.com mentions a downgrade on the stock.

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Google wants eardrums, not just eyeballs

Tom Johansmeyer — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 11:45:00 EST

Filed under: Internet, Google (GOOG), Apple Inc (AAPL), News Corp'B' (NWS), Technology

Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) makes it easier to search for websites, e-mail messages, passages from books and videos. Where you haven't heard much about Google's search capabilities -- or Google in general -- is the music business.

But, that's about to change. On Wednesday, the search giant announced that it was partnering with music services such as Pandora, Lala, News Corp's (NASDAQ: NWS) MySpace, and Rhapsody by RealNetworks (NASDAQ: RNWK) to help users find, listen to and ultimately buy music on the web.

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RealNetworks cuts to profits, eyes future with Google

Tom Johansmeyer — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:20:00 EST

Filed under: Internet, Google (GOOG), Technology

RealNetworks (NASDAQ: RNWK) is profitable again! The online media company that provides music and other entertainment cut its way into the black, getting rid of the costs that were getting in the way. It wasn't much of a profit, only $1.5 million for the third quarter, not even a full cent per share, but it's a hell of a lot better than the $4.5 million loss it sustained in the third quarter of 2008.

Revenue fell 8% last quarter to $140.3 million, just shy of the analyst average of $140.9 million. This trend is likely to continue through the fourth quarter. Music, technology product and game revenues were down. The profit was instead eked out of the supply chain and headcount.

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Apple reports 2 billion app downloads

Michael Fowlkes — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 16:40:00 EST

Filed under: Good news, Products and Services, Consumer Experience, Apple Inc (AAPL), iPhone, Technology

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) hit another big milestone today, announcing that its App Store had hit 2 billion total downloads.

The number is pretty impressive to say the least, and will continue to rise at a rapid pace. Apple now has 85,000 applications available for download, and its services are currently being offered in 77 different countries. That number is up from the 65,000 applications that were available this past July.

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Warner Music Group and Live Nation: Two melodious investments?

Steven Mallas — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 14:10:00 EST

Filed under: Earnings Reports, Apple Inc (AAPL), Amazon.com (AMZN)

I thought I'd take a look at two companies that reported earnings earlier in the week that share a couple things in common. First, they deal with music. Second, their prospects have been defined, in part, by the surge of Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPod/iTunes zeitgeist.

Let's begin with Warner Music Group (NYSE: WMG). According to Reuters, Warner Music Group lost 25 cents per share from continuing businesses in Q3. Analysts wanted to see a loss of only 16 cents per share. In last year's Q3, the company lost 6 cents per share. Not a good trend. Warner Music Group's management unfortunately fails to impress.

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Live Nation's Q1 misses expectations by significant amount

Steven Mallas — Fri, 08 May 2009 15:20:00 EST

Filed under: Earnings Reports, Yahoo! (YHOO), Apple Inc (AAPL), Amazon.com (AMZN)

Live Nation (NYSE: LYV), a promoter of concerts and merchandise, took the stage on Thursday and played the entire set of its latest earnings numbers for Wall Street's rock fans. Unfortunately, some of the musical metrics were completely off-key.

For the first quarter, Live Nation said that revenues dipped by over 6%. Currency translations affected the top line, so if you strip them out, you get an increase of nearly 3%. The loss from continuing operations expanded by an earsplitting 40% to $1.29 per share. According to this news article, analysts were looking for a loss of only $0.82 per share.

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Live Nation not so lively in Q4

Steven Mallas — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 08:20:00 EST

Filed under: Earnings Reports, Apple Inc (AAPL), Amazon.com (AMZN)

Live Nation (NYSE: LYV), the big, famous concert promoter that counts Madonna as a member of its roster, reported dismal Q4 results on Monday after the bell. A huge write-down in goodwill related to a bad decline in market capitalization led to a loss per share of $4.33. That was many times more than the year-ago loss of 25 cents per share in the similar period. According to this source, Live Nation lost 89 cents per share on an adjusted basis. Wall Street was thinking that maybe the promoter would lose 22 cents per share. Quite the disparity there, eh?

Looking through the press release, I see that there's a lot going on in terms of acquisitions and adjustments. Overall, I came away less than thrilled with the business. I wasn't taken by the statement of cash flows, and I have to wonder how difficult it will be to close on the Ticketmaster (NASDAQ: TKTM) merger. There's talk of antitrust issues.

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Guns n' Roses delivers a flop to Best Buy

Zac Bissonnette — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 09:48:00 EST

Filed under: Marketing and Advertising, Best Buy (BBY)

Guns n' Roses long-awaited "Chinese Democracy" album has been a flop, sticking Best Buy (NASDAQ: BBY) with hundreds of thousands of unsold copies that "seem destined for the bargain bin", according (subscription required) to the Wall Street Journal.

In the first two weeks, the CD has sold 318,000 copies. Problem: Best Buy bought 1.3 million copies up-front.

But with 1.3 million copies sold up-front to the exclusive retailer, Axl Rose may not have seen a need to go and promote the album aggressively. He reportedly declined interviews with Rolling Stone and The New York Times. Best Buy agreed not to return any CDs, so Interscope is off the hook as well.

An insider at Interscope, the band's label told The Sun that he thinks the album would have done much better if Rose was prepared to do some promotion, especially since he worked 15 years on the album.

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Digital sales still too slow for music industry growth

Richard Driver — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 18:00:00 EST

Filed under: Products and Services, Consumer Experience, Marketing and Advertising, Media World

The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry reported Wednesday that despite the growth of digital sales in 2007, the format is still not "making up for the decline in CD sales or the effects of piracy." Sales figures for music were also the lowest in ten years, as the IFPI did not start publishing sales figures until 1997. Total global sales for 2007 were $19.4 billion, with CDs and DVDs pulling in $15.9 billion (down 13%), and digital downloads $2.9 billion (up 34%).

The chairman and CEO of the IFPI, John Kennedy, also revealed that "digital sales are growing healthily but, crucially, not fast enough to arrest the overall decline of the market." The report also noted "physical and digital piracy cost the U.S." arm of the music industry $5.3 billion, with digital piracy counting for 70 percent. Kennedy indicated that 39% of U.S. teenagers used file-sharing networks to illegally download music, with over 30 billion illegal downloads taking place around the globe. The IFPI has been at the front of a movement to "engage the support of Internet service providers" in order to curb users from illegally downloading via threats from ISPs.

Despite digital sales slow growth as physical sales continue to plummet, the advances made in accessibility and quality of music in 2007 should prove beneficial for the industry. With labels and music companies dropping anti-piracy technology in the face of continued illegal downloads, there remains apparent trust and hope in consumers. A 34% increase in one year may seem small, but if digital marketing can continue to improve in that fashion then the music industry may not have too much to lament.

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It's business time -- there's more to the world than money

Tom Barlow — Sat, 31 May 2008 18:30:00 EST

Filed under: Television, Media World

If you haven't checked out HBO's Flight of the Conchords, you're missing a wonderfully droll, clever series. The show follows the exploits of a pair of New Zealand musicians trying to break into the American music scene. Their song Business Time might provide a welcome break during your, er, business time.

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Yael Naim helps land Apple at the top of the charts

Zack Miller — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 11:11:00 EST

Filed under: Apple Inc (AAPL), Wal-Mart (WMT)

As a family, we try to sit down together every night for dinner. It's a small thing, but it's the only time all day that the seven of us can both talk and listen. I walk in from work listening to my iPod and the kids ask me, "Whattya listening to?". The answer, I explained, is Yael Naim, recent holder of a top single New Soul.

Turns out that Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL)'s Steve Jobs personally picked her tune to launch the new MacBook Air, which seemed to have launched her status. Almost overnight, New Soul became the top selling song on Apple's music download site/software, iTunes. It turns out that this stint at the top was short lived as Apple, it seems, enjoyed its own form of New Years present as users rushed to redeem iTunes gift certificates. Nevertheless, while Apple has contributed to Yael Naim's success, she has also contributed to Apple's as well.

And with this surge of continuing sales for Apple's music division, Apple has recently ousted big-boy Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT) as the #1 music retailer in the U.S. Ars Technica breaks out the numbers: 30% of retail music is now purchased online, and Apple has the largest share of retail sales including Wal-Mart and walmart.com sales.

Pretty impressive, eh?

"I'm a new soul, I came to this strange world hoping I could learn a bit bout how to give and take..."

Zack Miller is the managing editor of IsraelNewsletter.com and a former equity analyst for a leading multinational hedge fund.

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Target tests online music service with John Legend album

Richard Driver — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 17:13:00 EST

Filed under: Deals, Products and Services, Competitive Strategy, Apple Inc (AAPL), Wal-Mart (WMT), Amazon.com (AMZN), Target Corp. (TGT), Sony Corp ADR (SNE), Technology

Billboard reported yesterday that Target Corp. (NYSE: TGT) has entered a "special promotion" with Sony BMG, owned by Sony Corp. (NYSE: SNE) and Bertelsmann Music Group, to launch a digital music service offering high quality MP3 files for just one artist and one album: John Legend and his Live from Philadelphia album. The album comes without the anti-piracy Digital Rights Management software and sells for $10; there is no option to purchase single tracks. The CD version of the album is currently available at Target, as an "only at Target" special.

Song BMG seems ready to make the headlong entrance into high quality MP3 sales, even if this deal is a special promotion for an album only available at one retailer. Target is one of the limited companies also offering Sony BMG's new album cards that let buyers download high quality DRM-free MP3s. Sony BMG also entered a new agreement with Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) last week to sell the same quality tracks in the new MP3 store the online retailer has opened.

An interesting aspect of this promotion is that the album in question is available "only at Target" in both physical and now digital formats. This is not an unfamiliar method of selling an album: the Eagles' Long Road Out of Eden was only released in Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT) stores and on the company's website. Previous albums released in only one physical retailer also saw release in various digital stores, like Collective Soul's Afterwords, released at Target and in Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL)'s iTunes Store. The verdict on this method is quite good, after Billboard chart regulations were changed in late October, which allowed the Eagles' album to hit number one above the most recent Britney Spears release, which was available in numerous outlets and online.

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Live Nation: A key player with music players

Zack Miller — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 16:19:00 EST

Filed under: Competitive Strategy, eBay (EBAY)

While sagging global music sales may be down, spelling hard times for music labels and the like, the proliferation of cribbed (read, downloaded illegally) music is actually driving concert sales to record levels.

Anyone heard of Live Nation (NYSE: LYV)? It only happens to be a real player in this industry. Live Nation recently announced its global ticketing initiative, which is set to debut next January. Live Nation is partnering with European firm CTS Eventim, which will provide the back-end technology and other related services for LYV's ticketing business.

So, what does this new business mean to a company that is a mover and shaker in the the promotion and production of live music shows, theatrical performances, and specialized motor sports events?

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'It's All Over Now' - Embattled EMI loses another major act

Richard Driver — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 16:57:00 EST

Filed under: Products and Services, Starbucks (SBUX), Marketing and Advertising, Employees, Private Equity

Privately-held EMI Group is just not having a very good week, what with announcing painful changes in the works, and the prospect of several big name artists threatening to withhold new albums until certain assurances from the label are met. Now comes news that longtime EMI act The Rolling Stones will be leaving the label at the end of the band's current contract in May to join industry giant Universal Music Group, owned by Vivendi.

The difference in a big name like The Rolling Stones leaving EMI and say, Radiohead (who have also left since Terra Firma's takeover) leaving, is that the Stones departure follows the company's decision to eliminate 2,000 jobs worldwide.

Any real connection between the Stones' decision and EMI's layoffs is likely limited, since a new deal with another label has likely been in the works for a few weeks or months. However, the band was likely aware of the treatment other artists seemed to be encountering and the difficulties that were arriving after the Terra Firma buyout in August. The band has been signed to EMI since 2003, in a deal estimated at £14 million, but released just one album of new material in the time period, A Bigger Bang. The remainder of the deal involved several compilations and live releases, including an exclusive B-sides disc with Starbucks (NASDAQ: SBUX).

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EMI may sell sponsorships for artists

Richard Driver — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 15:30:00 EST

Filed under: Rumors, Products and Services, Competitive Strategy, Marketing and Advertising

While privately-held EMI Group announced plans yesterday to cut around 2,000 jobs worldwide, the company also announced intentions to allow corporate sponsors to brand artists. According to British music journal NME, the plan will encompass connections to new releases from such large name acts as Coldplay, Kylie Minogue, and Babyshambles. This announcement coincides with several comments from EMI acts that they intend to withhold pending releases from the company until assurances can be made about marketing and digital promotion. Radiohead reportedly left EMI after assurances in those areas were not made by the record label, and when the company balked at giving the band rights to its back catalog.

A move like this should not be surprising, especially considering that other media and entertainment outlets have long used promotions of this sort to sell new products and releases. Most prominently are the deals film studios make for product placement and tie-ins with new films. Last year's Transformers comes to mind more than any other recent film in that regard. But where it is easy to insert a car for product promotion into a scene, the same cannot be said about music. Although it is unlikely Coldplay will start to sing about some new model car about to be revealed, the amount of control that artists may lose is daunting. The basic amount of attachment artists have toward albums seems to make this kind of deal unmanageable. If it is Britney Spears though, who would want to attach their brand to her at this point?

Unless the promotion is for some brand of musical device or instrument, this arrangement just seems hard to manage and especially hard to sell to artists that are very willing to withhold albums in light of issues already out of their control.

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Amazon's big push against Apple's iTunes

Douglas McIntyre — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 08:20:00 EST

Filed under: Deals, Consumer Experience, Internet, Competitive Strategy, Apple Inc (AAPL), PepsiCo (PEP), Amazon.com (AMZN), Technology

A commercial on this year's Super Bowl will promote free music downloads from Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN)'s new MP3 store. The company has lined up the four largest record labels to offer music without digital rights management. Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) only has a similar relationship with one -- EMI.

According to The New York Times, "Consumers who buy Pepsi drinks will receive points that can be redeemed for music downloads at a special section of the Amazon site. Amazon and Pepsi, a brand of PepsiCo (NYSE: PEP), will give away up to a billion songs."

The deal may be born from the music industry's hatred of Apple as much as from any love for Amazon. Industry estimates indicate that over 70% of all song downloads come from iTunes. That puts Apple in a position to dictate pricing and revenue sharing to the major music labels. With CD and physical album sales falling, that leaves music publishers in a bad position.

The dark side of the alliance with Amazon is that it has to work well. If music companies fail in their attempt to get around Apple, they may have to come crawling back to be "friends" with Apple again. That set of meetings may not go well.

Douglas A. McIntyre is an editor at 247wallst.com.

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With Sony BMG deal, Amazon will offer unlocked MP3s from all major labels

Richard Driver — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 15:46:00 EST

Filed under: Press Releases, Products and Services, Consumer Experience, Competitive Strategy, Microsoft (MSFT), Apple Inc (AAPL), Amazon.com (AMZN), Marketing and Advertising, Sony Corp ADR (SNE)

Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) and Sony BMG, a joint venture of Sony Corp. (NYSE: SNE) and Germany's Bertelsmann Media Group, announced yesterday that Amazon's new MP3 store will soon carry the label's entire catalog. This move makes Amazon.com's MP3 store the only digital store to offer consumer's Digital Rights Management-free MP3 tracks from all four major labels, with Sony BMG joining privately-held EMI Group, Warner Music Group (NYSE: WMG), and Vivendi (OTC: VIVEF)'s Universal Music Group.

Previously, Sony had announced a new promotion of album cards, which would allow listeners to download DRM-free MP3s, but it was limited to only about three dozen albums. The new agreement brings the entire catalog to Amazon.

The major point here is that Amazon's store now offers tracks that are playable on virtually any platform or device, from Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT)'s Zune and Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL)'s iPod to various off-brand players. In a press release given to Ellen Livshin of OutCast Communications, Amazon.com Vice President for Digital Music Bill Carr revealed this very fact: "Our Amazon MP3 customers will be able to choose from a full selection of DRM-free music downloads from all four major labels and over 33,000 independents that they can play on virtually any music-capable device." U.S. Sales head for Sony Thomas Hesse echoed these sentiments and added that the label is "excited to be working with Amazon as they continue to build new markets for digital music."

I've remarked before that the Amazon.com MP3 store would increase competition and drive the digital market forward, and with this announcement it seems that many predictions about the online music realm are being realized, albeit much earlier than expected. Many had pointed to mid-year as the time when DRM technology would disappear completely, but as we can now see, that timeline will be January, at least for one store.

The move is also a potentially devastating blow to Apple's iTunes Store, which had headed up the move away from DRM but has not great success, managing to score only the EMI catalog early last summer. Whatever the case may be, the Amazon.com move will increase the competition and hopefully begin the revitalization process the music industry needs. All they have to do is promote it and get consumers interested.

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