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Apr 18, 2023 · Since it relaunched in 2008, BMG has focused on established artists rather than newer ones, with a large percentage of even its newly recorded releases coming from familiar faces like Lenny...
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CD clubs offered ever-shifting traps for all ages and tastes, the deadliest of which involved ordering and receiving free albums, not paying a thing, never canceling the subscription, then dropping off company radar. Once a given time passes, contract clauses spring to life, full price is charged for all free discs, a collection agency is assigned,...
To keep costs low and profit margins high, CD clubs produced their own discs to sell, some apparently of questionable sound quality. Stereophileconducted a test in 1994in which top audio engineers repeatedly listened to both club and retail releases of the same albums, and indeed, they detected inconsistencies — different compression levels, stereo...
By 2003, the unraveling had begun. In a class-action lawsuit, a U.S. District Judge dropped the hammer on CD club private defendants, for what CBS News called a “price-fixing conspiracy.” A $143 million settlement was dispensed to millions of buyers, in the form of 75% discounts on full-priced club discs…which required a membership to buy. The priv...
BMG CD club was ultimately put to sleep in 2009 by its parent Columbia House group, who then succumbed to bankruptcy in 2015. In addition to schemesters and lawsuits, several clear factors led to their downfall. One painful legal caveat involved clubs having to wait from three months to a year before being permitted to sell an artist’s new release....
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Feb 11, 2022 · by Andre Paine. February 11th 2022 at 7:00AM. After a series of big signings last year including Louis Tomlinson, 5 Seconds Of Summer and Craig David, BMG is set for another strong performance in...
Multi-Platinum BMG recording artist Lil Dicky has announced he will release his first new music in eight years with a compilation of songs and expanded music featured in the first three seasons of his acclaimed comedic television show Dave.
Most everyone loves music, but who looks after musicians? BMG does. Our radical service-based approach is to design a music company from the artist and songwriter’s perspective. We’re here to help artists be the best they can be – and maximize their earnings from the music they create.
Launch of the new BMG. In October 2008, Bertelsmann launched the new BMG with a small portfolio of recorded music rights of around 200 artists it retained from Sony BMG. It declared it would pursue a business model focused on fairness, service and transparency.
Award-winning BMG artists Jelly Roll and Lainey Wilson have teamed up to release ‘Save Me’ via Stoney Creek Records/BMG. ‘Save Me’ is the latest single to be released from Jelly Roll’s eagerly awaited upcoming studio Whitsitt Chapel, arriving June 2.
