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To be fair, Copey, I was a bit surprised when I found out the actual sales figures...483,000 in the UK, which is actually fairly respectable...many artists don't sell nearly that many, but for some reason her album is consistently talked down in industry circles as a massive flop...I think considering the press and PR she got, it was extremely disappointing, and I very much doubt polydor recouped (I wonder, actually, if the Mercury Prize Money is covered in record deals (or hers, anyway) these days, as part of the artiste schedule to the record company...be interesting to find out), though perhaps EMI publishing did...
PRS has fuck all to do with the label, btw, unless they highly unlikely managed to sign the publishing to their publishing arm...which almost never happens. It belongs to the writers, and that's all there is to it, and will be collected by the pub. co. for a commission...so in Ms D's case, she's signed to Polydor Records (a subsidiary of EMI), but her publishing is signed to EMI Publishing, a seperate company, though blah blah multinational only 3 or 4 massive conglomerates left in the world fishpaste.)
Although it's little to do with the thread (sorry):
The EU and independent music companies testify in court in merger appeal test case SonyBMG
Independent music companies will today challenge the European competition watchdog in court in Luxembourg over its decision to wave through the SonyBMG merger last year. The one-day hearing plays a vital role in the appeal which has already been fastracked by the court. This is the first time small businesses have taken on the Commission in legal action of this scale.
The case will consider vital questions. How the EU should have assessed the impact of the merger and how it should take into account the interest of competitors and citizens, especially in sectors which are already heavily concentrated? This is one of a recent string of appeals against different merger decisions, which have been lost by the Commission. The independents believe that the Commission�s decision in SonyBMG is similarly very difficult to defend. The independents simply want the EU to do its job as the guardian of real competition, consumer value and choice and cultural diversity and more importantly citizenship rights and obligations. This is a test case that is expected to change how all future mergers are treated by the EU.
The hearing will be a watershed. Not only for the music sector. Not only for the cultural diversity. But for all small businesses who believe that competition rules should not be the playground of the multinationals. Ultimately it will be a watershed for all European and non-European citizens. The issues are truly global. What is at stake is not only what kind of music landscape we want our children to live in but more importantly what kind of world we and our children want to live in:
- would you accept 4 films companies in the world?
- would you accept 4 television companies in the world?
- would you accept 4 book publishers in the world?
- would you accept 4 concert promoters in the world?
- would you accept 4 political parties in the world?
- more importantly, in a free world, would you accept 4 newspapers publishers?
So why would you accept 4 (soon 3) music conglomerates in the world?
The appeal is part of the independents� campaign to highlight the need to promote creativity and confront the economic, cultural and democratic dangers of media concentration.
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