Edgar Bronfman, Jr., Warner Music Group's Chairman and CEO, began the call offering a set stats designed to show how the company is outpacing the rest of the music industry?or at least doing less worse.

[In progress] Edgar Bronfman, Jr., Warner Music Group's Chairman and CEO, began the call offering a set stats designed to show how the company is outpacing the rest of the music industryor at least doing less worse. However, major successes came from albums by Frank Sinatra and Madonna, not exactly rising young artists. Online digital front, ringtone revenue remains small and was flat in Q2, ...

For cash-out of its 50% stake in the Sony BMG joint venture, Bertelsmann will receive about $1.2 billion and some European music rights

TOKYO (Thomson Financial) - Japan's Namco Bandai Holdings Inc. said on Wednesday its operating profit dropped 66 percent in the fiscal first quarter ended in June from a year earlier, hit hard by difficulties at its game arcade facility management operations and the music/movie content business.

It's been nearly five years since their last Japan visit, but Radiohead are back. In the hubbub over the daring digital release of the band's "In Rainbows" album last October, where fans could pay any price they liked, most publications seemed to overlook the most important element: the music. Easily Radiohead's best album since 2000's "Kid A," "In Rainbows" deals in earthy atmospherics and lean ...