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UK events firm 2Pears has announced the latest offshoot from its Music 4.5 conferences brand: Music Techpitch 4.5. It’ll be held on 22 November in London, with EMI on board as the key partner. The event will see EMI’s EVP of strategy and insight Jim Brady give a keynote speech, before eight music startups show off their wares and get grilled by a panel of judges. “Innovation is at the very heart of our business and we are very keen to help and support promising new developers,” says EMI’s VP of digital projects Neil Tinegate.
10:00 | Thursday March 22, 2012 Spotify has launched a series of apps covering a diverse range of brands and labels such as Now That’s What I Call Music!, Def Jam and Matador Records.
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Record Labels | Touring | Digital & Mobile | Indies | Legal & Management | Retail The theme at NARM’s Music Biz 2012 conference was forced austerity. “We’re doing more with less,” one major label executive said when asked how his company was doing. Also, investors and analysts have reacted positively to Live Nation’s first quarter earnings. The company’s shares rose 6.6% Thursday and another 0.7% Friday. And MP3tunes.com has filed for bankruptcy, but that won’t stop EMI from proceeding with its lawsuit against the company, according to CNET.
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The company, founded by the Swedish entrepreneur Daniel Ek, plans to stream 36 billion songs by the end of this year when it launches in the United States. Yet not everyone is singing along to this happy tune. Songwriters have grown increasingly frustrated at what they say are the minuscule payments made available to them through the streaming process. Yesterday, they called on Spotify and other online music services to come clean and explain exactly how much they are willing to pay creative talent for the right to use their material.