Dido and Leona Lewis are subject to one of the closest first-day sales battles of the year so far, with fewer than 500 units separating their albums in the race for number one.
Universal Classics and Jazz has unveiled plans to expand its sync and brand activity, including a new ?dedicated resource? within the label to oversee the niche.
Ferdy Unger-Hamilton has laid out his vision for Polydor, after Universal Music UK Chairman and CEO David Joseph confirmed his appointment as president of the Universal label.
EMI Music?s chief executive Elio Leoni-Sceti has brought another marketing expert onto his team as he continues to put in place the building blocks of his company?s new structure.
EMI Music has unveiled a radical new global structure, which its chief executive believes will help it to recapture the initiative in finding new ways for music to be experienced.
The music industry?s ability to steer young people into the profession and away from illegal filesharing has been boosted by the launch of the first free resource to help teachers explain the business to students.
EMI will unveil plans to radically re-structure its business today, splitting EMI Music into three business units: new music, catalogue and music services.
EMI is considering outsourcing part of its US distribution to physical retailers, although the major?s sales and marketing operations are not part of discussions, as was previously reported.
The battle for this week?s number one album is heating up, with Universal pulling out all the stops to try to get Snow Patrol?s Hundred Million Suns to overtake midweek top-seller Funhouse by Pink.
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