Do you use Spotify, We7 or Last FM? Well you may see a drop in the number of available tunes to listen to as Warner Music Group have said they will stop licensing its songs to free music streaming services. Warner Music Group are one of the 4 major music labels and its artists include the likes of Staind, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Hard Fi, Michael Buble, The Enemy, REM, and Wilco - to name just a few...

A few years back, it seemed like Warner Music actually had a better handle on where the music industry was heading than its 3 major label rivals. In the last two years, however, it seems like WMG has consistently gone further and further in the opposite direction. It may have hit a new low today with the announcement that it will pull out of all free streaming music licensing offers. Yes, Warner M...

Warner Music revealed its financial results today - admitting more expensive tracks just didn’t sell as quickly. As we know, iTunes now lets labels charge more per track, if they so choose. The effect? Warner admits digital revenue growth in the last quarter of 8 percent compared to 20 percent in the previous year's corresponding quarter. “This is in line with an industry-wide slo...

Music from artists on labels owned by Warner Music Grou will be available to U.S. subscribers of digital music service eMusic, the companies said on Tuesday. Reuters reports. The deal will make 10,000 catalog albums from artists like REM, Depeche Mode and Aretha Franklin available for downloading. But the deal does not include newer hit records. The new deal is just one of the steps in a concerted...

It's beginning to appear that some of the major labels' strategy for dealing with the changing structure of the music business -- in which overall money is up, but has shifted away from the record labels' bank accounts -- is to simply bleed the old market dry. How else to explain that as Warner Music continued to shrink and fail to respond to market changes in any reasonable manner,...

Apple's purchase of Lala.com gives Warner Music $9 million back out of the $20 million it invested in the company.

With Tim Quirk's story about his fictional royalty statements from Warner Music, more people are beginning to talk about these kinds of things. Bob Lefsetz points to another report of a royalty statement of an unrecouped artist (and former major label exec), David Bach, who notes with some surprise that on his last royalty statement from Warner Music, the amount the band owed had gone up. In ...

Warner Music agreed to restore its videos to YouTube, ending a nine-month standoff. Article

Warner Music Group has struck a deal with YouTube to bring its content back to the site. That means that all four major labels now have agreements with YouTube so that users who upload videos featuring their music can do so as long as the song is plugged as an online download purchase. A company called Akamai has developed a web-based video player that works with Flash, Silverlight, and even the i...

Vodafone recently joined hands with Warner Music to offer over-the-air access to the combined music catalogue of the four major music companies in DRM-free format. Vodafone and Warner Music jointly aim to present an array of mobile music products including value-added album bundles with additional multimedia content. Subscribers can now choose from a wide variety