By Emmanuel Legrand So Universal will be getting even bigger, Warner is dwarfed, and somewhere in between Sony will try to survive, most likely thanks to...
By Emmanuel Legrand In part two of this two-part series on indie labels originally written for the Midem blog in January 2011, we asked several veterans...
By Emmanuel Legrand This is the first of a two-part series on indie labels that was originally commissioned by MIDEM for the 2011 edition of the...
By Emmanuel Legrand [This piece was originally commissioned by MIDEM for the 2011 edition of the music trade show. I thought its content would still be...
By Emmanuel Legrand In the mid-80s, Island Records - then still independent and owned by Chris Blackwell - sent to all its affiliates around the world...
By Emmanuel Legrand & Sam Zniber 'Don't Stop The Party' is the Black Eyed Peas' new motto. But the party hasn't even started in American radio!...
By Emmanuel Legrand Sometimes figures speak louder than words... Here are a few examples picked up recently. 1.4 million That's roughly the total number of times...
By Emmanuel Legrand Jean-Francois Michel With the passing of Jean-Francois Michel, the global creative community has lost one of its most active agents and his friends...
By Emmanuel Legrand Like many in the music industry, I have been saddened and shocked by the news of the sudden passing of Edmund Glinert, founder...
By Emmanuel Legrand Strange, isn't it, how perception is changing about record labels? Once vilified as an anachronistic leftover from a bygone 20th Century business model,...