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Jun 14, 2019 · At their mid-1990s peak, Columbia House and BMG made a lot of money. According to The Recording Industry by Geoffrey P. Hull, music clubs paid between $1.50 and $5.50 for a CD, which they then sold for $16. He reports that if the clubs sold one out of every three discs, they'd make close to $8 in profit.
Apr 18, 2023 · BMG Integrates New-Release and Catalog Divisions: ‘Music Is Music Regardless of Age’. In an unusual move that seems intended to eliminate age-discrimination in music releases, BMG, one of the ...
But I do know BMG and Columbia House built my family's tape and CD collection way up with those "price of 1" and "99 cents" scams, lol. One of those two used to send us CDs we didn't even request, and most of the time my mother would just keep them. She was mostly into urban music, which meant the pop and rock went straight into my collection.
How did 1990s "CD clubs" like BMG or Columbia House make money? If you were into music in the 90s, you likely remember BMG Music Service and Columbia House that would advertise "8 CDs for the price of 1" or other similar offers. And the thing, it an actual offer. With BMG, you would get four CDs for signing up, and after you bought one (for ...
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Jan 25, 2024 · Scherer joined BMG in 2008, moving to Los Angeles as EVP global writer services in 2014. In 2016 he took on BMG’s U.S. music publishing business before rising to president of repertoire ...
Jun 30, 2011 · It’s official. The website yourmusic.com, which evolved from the mail-order music club BMG Music Service, is no more. The site closed down around midnight on June 29th, 2011. This probably does not come as a surprise to anyone. As CD sales have continued to decline, many music retailers have been closing up shop in recent years.
Aug 11, 2015 · The competing mail-order provider of the era — the BMG Music Service — called it quits in 2009. Interestingly, BMG obtained Columbia House in 2005, at which point Columbia House was rebranded ...
