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aint suspicious minds on the mijac cat.? b4 sony/atv bought out leiber and stoller i think mj owned around 20 elvis songs on mijac
 
elusive moonwalker said:
aint suspicious minds on the mijac cat.? b4 sony/atv bought out leiber and stoller i think mj owned around 20 elvis songs on mijac
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Yes, I think that those are "gospel" songs.

I'd also like to mention that the song "Hallelujah" has taken on a life of it's own. LOL! It was performed on Good Morning America by Il Divo and it also appears on their new album.
 
Hmmm...

Maltby Capital Ltd
Annual Review
Year ended 31 March 2008
Pages 40-41

Market Share

...EMI Music Publishing’s share of the music publishing market has been about 20% for some years. Universal Music Publishing Group, boosted by its acquisition of BMG Music Publishing in 2007, has a slightly higher estimated 22.2% share, while Warner Chappell (14.8%) and Sony/ATV (7.4%) are in third and fourth place respectively...

http://www.emigroup.com/NR/rdonlyre...ltbyCapitalLimitedAnnualReviewStatements1.pdf


Recommended cash offer for EMI Group plc by Maltby Limited
May 2007

The board of directors of Maltby and Directors of EMI are pleased to announce the terms of a recommended cash offer for EMI at a price of 265 pence in cash for each EMI Share, valuing EMI on an enterprise value basis at approximately £3.2 billion.

http://www.emigroup.com/NR/rdonlyres/6A4C19CF-25A3-4A60-86E4-B59A4B2F9C31/1401/21May2007.pdf
 
MsMo said:
Hmmm...

Maltby Capital Ltd
Annual Review
Year ended 31 March 2008
Pages 40-41

Market Share

...EMI Music Publishing’s share of the music publishing market has been about 20% for some years. Universal Music Publishing Group, boosted by its acquisition of BMG Music Publishing in 2007, has a slightly higher estimated 22.2% share, while Warner Chappell (14.8%) and Sony/ATV (7.4%) are in third and fourth place respectively...

http://www.emigroup.com/NR/rdonlyre...ltbyCapitalLimitedAnnualReviewStatements1.pdf


Recommended cash offer for EMI Group plc by Maltby Limited
May 2007

The board of directors of Maltby and Directors of EMI are pleased to announce the terms of a recommended cash offer for EMI at a price of 265 pence in cash for each EMI Share, valuing EMI on an enterprise value basis at approximately £3.2 billion.

http://www.emigroup.com/NR/rdonlyres/6A4C19CF-25A3-4A60-86E4-B59A4B2F9C31/1401/21May2007.pdf
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yeah...i'm supposed to believe that Sonyatv is last, when everybody else is selling theirs...and every song i hear in a commercial is sonyatv...and they're busy badmouthing MJ's business practices while going bellyup and feeling the bad economy, as said out of their mouths.

i believe they've got it backwards. i'm sure sonyatv is first and they're last and admit out of their mouths, they're about to give theirs up and atv will be waiting. i think it doesn't take rocket science to see this. how can they be afraid and MJ be aggressive and they be in first place and MJ in last place? uh uh..i ain't that stupid. remember they were the ones that equated being in financial trouble with having to sell shares of a catalogue. i guess they think my memory is short cus i'm an MJ fan.
 
:unsure: :scratch: My take on this is, being # 1, based on market share, seems to be dependent on how many songs are owned, rather than the value of the company, which is based on the value of the songs.

I.E., you could own 3 million songs, but if they're not valuable songs, they're not worth as much.

:smilerolleyes: There is a big difference.
 
If MJ got Elvis' gospel songs, then they don't make as much profit as his pop-rock songs and his Sun Recordings since they were in control by Col. Tom Parker when he was alive and RCA Records.
 
MsMo said:
:unsure: :scratch: My take on this is, being # 1, based on market share, seems to be dependent on how many songs are owned, rather than the value of the company, which is based on the value of the songs.

I.E., you could own 3 million songs, but if they're not valuable songs, they're not worth as much.

:smilerolleyes: There is a big difference.
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yeah there is, but MJ owns enough songs for the spaghetti to stick. people love elvis, period. lol
 
vncwilliam said:
yeah there is, but MJ owns enough songs for the spaghetti to stick. people love elvis, period. lol
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:agree: Right, right :yes:

My question is does Sony/ATV earn more with less, proportionately, because of the value/popularity of the songs in their catalog :scratch:

EMI, for example, has over 3 million songs in their catalog.

A firm's market share is the proportion of the market which it serves, expressed in financial terms.

Just wondering...
 
MsMo said:
:agree: Right, right :yes:

My question is does Sony/ATV earn more with less, proportionately, because of the value/popularity of the songs in their catalog :scratch:

EMI, for example, has over 3 million songs in their catalog.

A firm's market share is the proportion of the market which it serves, expressed in financial terms.

Just wondering...
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understood. :) i guess it's a matter of who the market is..

i'm just sayin...i'm reminded of somn that MJ's dad said MJ did when he was little...somn about buying hi selling lo..somn that many don't tend to share agreement with..

i guess we see it as we see it..i'm cool with that. lol. just sayin that mj isn't sellin...EMI is sellin their catalogue....the question is..why? why are they selling any portion of it?
 
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for those of you who didn't like what Beyonce said about the Jacksons.. don't worry Michael has got the last laugh...

Sony/ATV has 6 songs off I am Sasha F... including Single Ladies...

check it out
https://satv.sonydadc.com/sony_atv/...bum=&writer=&artist=beyonce&keyword=&category=


and while I am at it..... Madonna is also lining Michael's pockets if she sings the following songs during her tour...........(about 22 of them)

https://satv.sonydadc.com/sony_atv/...bum=&writer=&artist=madonna&keyword=&category=


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lol...good show. i was also wondering if some songs that Justin Timberlake sings are on the atv roster, since he is singing for Sony..

and..while we're at it...i was wondering if this song by the Association is on the atv roster. it's called 'Windy'.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hU8vOQNvd3c

i heard it on an oldies station.

and, by the way, i think just about everything that Beyonce sings is on the atv roster.

i start to wonder if everything i listen to is on the roster..i know a lot of soap operas i watch are Sony soaps...and Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune are Sony tv gameshows...lol..i wonder if their themes belong to Michael. and if all the music on the soaps belongs to Michael.
 
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I am more and more amazed with every post I read about Sony/ATV!!

Anyone know if ATV stands for anything?? :(

(no I don't mean All Terrain Vehicle) lol
 
Sony/ATV’s "Musical Notes" #32 - Leonard Cohen

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Sony/ATV’s "Musical Notes" #32
A fortnightly newsletter highlighting some of the many classic songs in the Sony/ATV Music Publishing catalog.

From Alan Warner, Creative Consultant

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HALLELUJAH
The Songs Of LEONARD COHEN


Towards the end of 2008, a song which Leonard Cohen wrote and first recorded back in 1984 became a phenomenal hit in Britain.

Inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame earlier in 2008, Leonard Cohen is the Montreal-born poet and novelist who emerged as an iconic and enigmatic singer/songwriter in the 1960’s...

The recent wave of success of HALLELUJAH began earlier in 2008 when contestant Jason Castro sang it on the “American Idol” TV show. Released as a single, Jason’s version became a minor US hit and then Simon Cowell chose the song for Alexandra Burke, the winner of his UK talent show “The X Factor”. This prompted the re-issues of versions by Leonard himself and the late Jeff Buckley, the result being that all three recordings were on the UK charts at the same time!

HALLELUJAH
By Leonard Cohen (Columbia: 2008 re-release)*UK #36
By Bon Jovi (Island)
By Bono (A&M)
By Chris Botti (Columbia)
By Jeff Buckley (Columbia: 2008 re-release)*UK #2
By Alexandra Burke (Syco: 2008)*UK #1
By John Cale (Atlantic)
By Bob Dylan
By Il Divo (Syco/Columbia)
By k.d. lang (Nonesuch)
By Willie Nelson (Lost Highway)
By Rufus Wainwright (Tommy Boy)

HUM HALLELUJAH (Cohen/Wentz/Stump/Trohman/Hurley)
Features a sample of “Hallelujah”. By Fall Out Boy (Island)

*The UK chart positions of HALLELUJAH were as of 12/21/08

http://www.sonyatv.com/index.php/news/439


Sony/ATV’s "Musical Notes" #31 - Ultimate TV Themes


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Sony/ATV’s “Musical Notes” #31
A fortnightly newsletter highlighting some of the many classic songs in the Sony/ATV Music Publishing catalog.
From Alan Warner, Creative Consultant

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Sony/ATV’s ULTIMATE TV THEMES Volume One
From “Cheers” to “Star Trek”

http://www.sonyatv.com/index.php/news/438
 
Ali G said:
I am more and more amazed with every post I read about Sony/ATV!!

Anyone know if ATV stands for anything?? :(

(no I don't mean All Terrain Vehicle) lol
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ATV Music was once the publishing arm of Lord Lew Grade's UK media empire, Associated Television (ATV).
 
Publishers Say Lyrics Are A Growing Cash Cow
January 20, 2009 - Publishing

By Ed Christman, Cannes

One of the more pleasant finds in these painful times was discovering the value of lyrics as a cashflow generator, panelists at MIDEM revealed Tuesday.

In a panel on maximizing license and business opportunities for lyrics, EMI Music Pubishing executive VP of media and business development Jonathan Channon said that for years the industry has been putting lyrics on album covers for free and maybe getting a small fee when fanzines published lyrics.

But a few years ago many discovered a value that was sitting under their nose: the lyrics right. “And it doesn’t even need the master rights,” Channon added.

Since putting lyrics onto mugs, clothing, toys, greeting cards and other merchandise, EMI has had to grow into becoming a manufacturer and distributor, Channon said. But its definetely a volume business as EMI said 3 million units of one lyric-licensed merchandise piece for a department store chain in Australia realized about 30,000 pounds profit.

Meanwhile, ICMP president and Sony/ATV Music Publishing France president Nicolas Galibert says the music publishers trade group is undertaking an ambitious gambit to build a complete French lyric database for a business-to-business web site that would facilitate lyric licensing in the online world...

http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/content_display/industry/e3ife1903a36d09a1d8e41a0611e9cd5ebf
 

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SOMETHING FOR THE WEEKEND? -
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This week we're celebrating "Sony United" - a synergy of Sony Music and Sony ATV Music Publishing... or "Sony-ergy" as we like to call it (see what we did there?). So here is a carefully hand-picked selection of some of the best bits from both Sony Music and Sony ATV. Yes that's right, artists, writers and songs that are signed to both Sony Music and Sony ATV.... isn't it lovely when everyone in the family gets along?​
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Andy Williams - "Born Free"

This famous track written by John Barry and Don Black for the feature film Born Free nearly didn't make the final cut. The film was about lions and the producers wanted the track to reflect the subject matter. Luckily Don Black managed to convince them that the lyric should have a universal theme. "Born Free" not only won the Academy Award for Best Original song in 1966 but was the first British song ever to win Best Oscar Song. "Born Free" was also a hit for Matt Monro, Vic Reeves, Roger Williams and Frank Sinatra.

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Red Light Company - "Arts And Crafts"

2009 looks set to be a really good year for Red Light Company. RLC formed in 2007 after band members Richard and Shawn met over the internet and since then they've been hotly tipped for 2009, appearing on NMEs Hottest New Bands list, HMVs Top Ten Tips list and Edith Bowman's Top Tips in The London Paper. Fine Fascination is their debut album - due for release on March 2nd. The next single due for release on the same day is Arts And Crafts which has already been voted Zane Lowe's Hottest Record In The World on Radio One.


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Sade - "No Ordinary Love"

Released in 1992, No Ordinary Love was the lead track from Sade's fourth album Love Deluxe. The Song won a Grammy for Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal in 1994.

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Christina Aguilera - "Beautiful"

This Linda Perry penned and produced track appeared on Aguilera's second studio album, Stripped. The track earned Aguilera a Grammy for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance in 2004 and topped the charts in the US, UK, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Romania, and Turkey.

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Bachman Turner Overdive - "You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet"

"You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet" was written by Randy Bachman and released on Bachman Turner Overdrive's third album Not Fragile in 1974. The track reached the top of the Hot 100. The famous stutter featured in the chorus was not intended to be invluded on the album. Randy Bachman recorded it to poke friendly fun at this brother Gary who had a speech impediment, however the record company preferred this version to the non-stuttering one and b-b-b-baby aren't we glad.


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The Hoosiers - "Goodby Mr. A"

The Hoosiers sound was described by NME as 'vibrant indie pop'; their most popular hits have a mixture of feel-good melodies and lively choruses. The band has enjoyed significant chart success with a number of top ten singles and a number one album with The Trick To Life. Goodbye Mr A reached number 4 in the single charts and was accompanied by a superhero- themed music video, in which the band kidnapped Mr A himself.


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Elvis Presley - "Suspicious Minds"

"Suspicious Minds" was Elvis' eighteenth and last number-one single in the United States. The track was written by Mark Jones (aka Francis Zambon) who first released his own version of the track. When Elvis heard the track he loved it and insisted he could make it a hit. The song joined the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1999.


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Will Young - "Grace"
 Will Young rose to fame after winning Pop Idol in 2002. Since then he has gone on to record four albums, releasing numerous hit singles and even starred in a film adaptation of Mrs Henderson Presents. His latest single Grace was chosen as the soundtrack for the current Natwest TV campaign.

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Bob Dylan - "It Ain't Me Babe"

Released on Dylan's 1964 album, Another Side Of Bob Dylan, "It Ain't Me Babe" tells the story of a man who warns a woman that he is not the one she is looking for. "You say you're looking for someone who'll promise never to part, someone to close his eyes for you, someone to close his heart, someone who'll die for you and more, but it ain't me babe."

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Living Colour - "Cult Of Personality"
Living Colour formed in New York in 1983. They're musical style fused heavy metal, funk, free jazz, punk and hip hop. Cult Of Personality won them a Grammy in 1989 for Best Hard Rock Performance. The track features in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas on the Radio X channel in the computer game. The song's guitar riff is one that most guitar heroes would be proud of (in fact the song featured in Guitar Hero itself, so look out for it and you can shred along to it too).

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Neil Diamond - "I'm A Believer"

Topping the charts in 1966 is this Diamond penned and recorded classic. This single went gold within two days of release and became the best selling record of 1967. "I'm A Believer" later also became a hit for The Monkees, Robert Wyatt and Smash Mouth.

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PINK - "Party Started"
Party Started is one of PINK's best known songs and was penned by former 4 Non Blondes front woman Linda Perry. The song was a worldwide hit and reached high in the charts in many countries. The song's style is a departure from Perry's usual into more of a 'dance' sound and came about by her experimenting at home with drum machines and various instruments. Party Started was covered by Shirley Bassey in the 2006 M&S Christmas campaign - a fantastic version it was too and a fitting testament to a great pop record.

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Oasis - "Don't Look Back In Anger"

"Don't Look Back In Anger" was released as the fourth single from Oasis' sophomore album, (What's The Story) Morning Glory? It was the band's second single to top the UK charts and was the first Oasis single to feature Noel Gallagher on lead vocals. With John Lennon inspired lines like "gonna start a revolution from my bed, cuz you said the brains I had went to my head", it's no suprise these boys have had such monumental success.

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Timbaland Featuring One Republic - "Apologize"

Timbaland is one of rap music's biggest producers and stars whose uncanny knack for hit -making has won him worldwide acclaim. Timbaland has worked with some of the industry's biggest names, including Missy Elliott, Jaz-Z, Snoop Dogg and Justin Timberlake. His sound is instantly recognisable with its bass heavy beats and 'outlandish production'. He moved into production for a vast array of artists, including MIA, Bjork, and The Fray. His Midas touch can be heard on OneRepublic's Apologize which enjoyed huge success around the world.

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Carly Simon - "Coming Around Again"

The hauntingly beautiful "Coming Around Again" was written specifically for the film Heartburn, which starred Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep. This romantic ballad also appeared on Simon's 13th studio album, also entited Coming Around Again (released 1987). This platinum selling album is widely regarded to be her most autobiographical and helped earn Simon Pop nomination.

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Cyndi Lauper - "True Colours"

True Colours is the title song from Cyndi Lauper's 1986 hit album of the same name and helped establish her as a wordlwide success. The song has been covered many times by artists that include Phil Collins, Kasey Chambers and most recently Sony ATV's very own Ane Brun. Ane Brun's beautiful version featured on a recent Sky HD television campaign.


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Blondie - "Maria"

Maria was Blondie's comeback single in 1999 and their first in about seven years. It was also their first UK number 1 since The Tide Is High, which hit the top spot in November 1980. The song was written by Jimmy Destri who also wrote some of Blondie's earlier hits. Blondie have sold over 60 million records and in 2006 were inducted into Rock N Roll Hall Of Fame.


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Synch/Marketing Coordinator - Film/Computer Games
T: (+44) 203 206 2548
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http://www.sonyatv.com/writers/standalone_news_story.php?id=131
 
Help! Will Beatles' Tunes Ever Make it Online?

By BY MICHAEL VENTRE
Updated 5:15 AM EST, Mon, Feb 2, 2009
Related Topics: The Beatles

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When will the British pop group invade the Internet?





While they’re waiting for the group’s catalog to finally be made available for sale online, Beatles fans and scholars can amuse themselves by choosing the song that best describes the current state of limbo in the matter.

Perhaps it’s “It Won’t Be Long.” Or maybe “Tomorrow Never Knows.” Possibly “Wait,” or “When I’m Sixty-Four,” or “Anytime At All,” or even “Help!”
Certainly, “The Long and Winding Road” applies.

Here it is, early 2009, and the Beatles have yet to make their songs available on iTunes, Amazon, Zune, or any of the other major online music stores. Here are some key points along the timeline:
In 1066, the Normans invade and conquer England. The electric guitar is invented in 1931. The Beatles invade and conquer America in 1964. Led Zeppelin, one of the last holdouts, finally makes its music available online in the fall of 2007.
The Beatles continue to mull it over.

“I grew up in the late ‘70s and early ‘80s, but the Beatles were a staple because my parents were Beatles fans,” said Eliot Van Buskirk, a staff writer for Wired.com who blogs about music. “With the formal shift to digital, there is a chance for the Beatles’ cultural message to be lost.
“The Internet is like Noah’s Ark of sorts: if you’re not here, you’re relegated to a more difficult access region of history," Van Buskirk said. “The Beatles are not in a position that they need to make money. From my point of view, it’s more about the cultural value they bring to the online store.”
The Beatles aren’t completely on an island. AC/DC is there with them. But Angus, Malcolm and the boys are still together, still recording, and still touring. They made a major distribution deal with Wal-Mart and moved more than 1.7 million units worldwide in the first week of release of their most recent CD, “Black Ice.” They have a high enough sales profile that the absence of their music online doesn’t have much of an impact.
But the Beatles? Their music likely will never land in a dustbin. But it could still get dusty.
“What’s gonna happen first: will physical retail die, or will the Beatles have their music on digital services?” asked Bob Lefsetz, a music industry insider and former entertainment attorney who writes a newsletter on music and other topics (lefsetz.com). “As Irving Azoff once said about the Eagles, they make more money in one live gig than they’ve made in the history of iTunes.”
Lefsetz also recognizes that, when it comes to the Beatles, it’s not about the money. “I think the Beatles should be on iTunes,” he said. “They should cement their place at the top of the food chain.”
Impossible to say what's at issue
What's holding up the works?
It’s impossible to say, since no one involved will make a definitive statement on the topic. The Beatles’ business entity, Apple Corps, has to agree to anything done by EMI, which owns the group’s recordings. And the two sides have yet to cut a deal. In the interim, every once in a while there is a rumor that the Beatles’ catalog is finally set to arrive online, sometimes with special extras, such as a “Yellow Submarine” iPod. Neither EMI, Apple Corps or iTunes would comment.
Sony/ATV holds the music publishing rights to the Lennon-McCartney catalog and stands to benefit if the group’s music goes online. But Sony is not an active player in the negotiations.

Glenn Frese, who is senior vice president of digital marketing and business development at Columbia Records, has nothing to do with Sony’s end of the Beatles’ equation. But he was able to speak generally about the importance of any major band having its music online.
“We have to reach fans wherever they are,” Frese said. “While we still have some great retail partners out there selling CDs, there are fans everywhere. We need to make the catalogs available so they can purchase wherever they want.”
There is a belief out there in music download land that this is all a ploy by the Beatles — by Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, the two surviving members, and by representatives of the estates of John Lennon and George Harrison — to heighten anticipation for when the band’s songs do finally go online — if that ever happens at all.
“Neil Aspinall (the childhood friend of McCartney and Harrison) who ran Apple until his death, did so much to make the music of the Beatles special,” noted Steve Turner, a British music journalist and poet who wrote “A Hard Day’s Write: The Stories Behind Every Beatles Song” and “The Gospel According to the Beatles.”
“He kept their tracks off compilations and made sure that each Beatles album was always fully priced. I think that excluding them from iTunes has been part of the same effort. It means that if you want to download their albums, you have to do it from a CD.
“The Beatles are the Picasso or Rembrandt of popular music and it’s in their interest and the interest of culture in general to keep their music special. So often this means restricting accessibility. The more available it is, the more we’re likely to take it for granted.”
And, Turner pointed out: “I think iTunes needs the Beatles more than the Beatles needs iTunes.”

Jonathan Cohen, senior editor at Billboard, somewhat agrees. “I think there is a huge amount of anticipation, primarily from the content provider side,” he said. “This is the last Holy Grail artist still holding out. In theory, there’s quite a bit of money to be made from the selling side. For iTunes and Amazon, it would be a big windfall for them.”
The Beatles aren’t completely out of touch and mired in the ‘60s. They’re not still trying to hawk 45s of “Rubber Soul.” They announced a deal in October with MTV and Harmonix, the people who make the “Rock Band” games, to create a Beatles version that is scheduled to be released later this year. So that at least will placate some younger fans who want more access to Beatles music.
“I think what they’re doing there is ingenious,” said Wired.com’s Van Buskirk. “This is a way to push their legacy into the future, and their estates and whoever make money. It seems like they skipped a step there, though. I hope their legacy doesn’t suffer as a result of stalling on iTunes until it doesn’t matter anymore.”
As Lefsetz so eloquently put it: “Do they have to be this (expletive) late? You ever hear of timing?”
Michael Baur is a professor of philosophy at Fordham University. Years ago, in order to help pay for graduate school, he was forced to sell his Rickenbacker 4001 bass guitar, the kind McCartney played around the time of the “Sgt. Pepper” recordings. He and his brother Steven, now a musicologist at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, once had a garage band and played Beatles songs, and later collaborated on a book, “The Beatles and Philosophy: Nothing You Can Think That Can’t Be Thunk.”
Naturally, when Michael Baur discussed the Beatles, he became philosophical.
“From my point of view, as someone who grew up listening to the Beatles and loving the richness of the music and the meaningfulness of the lyrics, it’s important to me and to others of my generation,” he said. “It would be a real shame if the music and the art are not made available for future generations, or if it’s difficult to get. Because it would be forgotten or lost, and there would be a real significant risk of the music being diminished.
“It’s important to maintain a continuous line of awareness from one generation to another.”
Baur, too, sees a marketing strategy at work in withholding the Beatles’ music from online sales. “What’s unfortunate,” he said, “is that because an important part of pop culture for the last 50 years is being handled as a commodity, it could well lead to a diminishing or a destroying of its importance as a cultural artifact.”
While everyone is waiting for the Beatles to join the download generation, perhaps it would be best to adopt the attitude of Turner, whose first published article was in the Beatles Monthly in 1969.
“I have all the Beatles’ songs on my iPod,” he said, “but I actually listen to them sparingly because I want to preserve the magic that I first felt in the 1960s in Britain when you’d hear a single on the radio on a Saturday morning and maybe you wouldn’t hear it again for another week.”
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^There are also quite a few TV spots for the same thing. They all feature this packet of bills with attached googly eyes. It's all about "the money you save" watching you. It's kind of hilarious.






I rather enjoy the commercials. Each time they come on it gets in your head. I've heard my brother singing it after the commercial too :D so it's not just me. Catchy song that one ;). But does MJ get paid royalties for it? He was never officially credited for the song. He didn't write it and this version is a cover. But maybe MJ owns the song?
 
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^There are also quite a few TV spots for the same thing. They all feature this packet of bills with attached googly eyes. It's all about "the money you save" watching you. It's kind of hilarious.


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I rather enjoy the commercials. Each time they come on it gets in your head. I've heard my brother singing it after the commercial too :D so it's not just me. Catchy song that one ;). But does MJ get paid royalties for it? He was never officially credited for the song. He didn't write it and this version is a cover. But maybe MJ owns the song?
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unfortunately no... the song was written by Motown writers and Universal/Motown own the publishing rights to the song..

Michael only get notierity ...for singing that FAMOUS hook....
 
Rasta Pasta said:
unfortunately no... the song was written by Motown writers and Universal/Motown own the publishing rights to the song..

Michael only get notierity ...for singing that FAMOUS hook....
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i didn't know that. but i think the noteriety is much more valuable. after all, people pay a fortune for commercials for the super bowl, just to get publicity. and if MJ is involved with anything, he's gunna get the most publicity from it. he is the king of receiving publicity, unintended. and that's a good thing. and he doesn't have to pay to get it. his fame is that powerful. so, if universal thinks they are reaping more money than MJ, from this..they are wrong. karma suggests that people getting free publicity from MJ has warranted him getting free publicity from everybody else.

after all, when a Jackson 5 song is played, who really benefits from it more..?
 
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vncwilliam said:
i didn't know that. but i think the noteriety is much more valuable. after all, people pay a fortune for commercials for the super bowl, just to get publicity. and if MJ is involved with anything, he's gunna get the most publicity from it. he is the king of receiving publicity, unintended. and that's a good thing. and he doesn't have to pay to get it. his fame is that powerful. so, if universal thinks they are reaping more money than MJ, from this..they are wrong. karma suggests that people getting free publicity from MJ has warranted him getting free publicity from everybody else.

after all, when a Jackson 5 song is played, who really benefits from it more..?
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you are right notoriety goes a long way for Michael...

and as for the J5 music... if Universal/Motown now abides by the agreement Michael made when leaving.. Universal should be paying him for
J5 stuff post 1980..
 
lol...ho hum...don't mean to bore you with the gaudy details, but another atv roster song hit number 1 on the top nine at nine on kiis fm in los angeles... right round by flo rida. lol...he keeps singing and rapping about making it rain, tho..lol

every time i listen to that countdown, an atv song hits number 1.

yah..lol..i know u all get tired of hearing this..lol (sarcasm)
 
Rasta Pasta said:
unfortunately no... the song was written by Motown writers and Universal/Motown own the publishing rights to the song..

Michael only get notierity ...for singing that FAMOUS hook....
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Yeah, I didn't think he'd get anything for it. That kinda sucks. Everyone loves that song for MJ's hook - and I guess for the sheer silliness and budget video lol. I don't normally take much of a look at YouTube comments, but any time you go to that video you'll see most people saying that the song would be nothing without MJ's vocals. Oh well. From the sounds of it, he's got money rolling in from other songs :).
 
that was generous of Michael to do that vocal for free and no credit for rockwell. it's just like mJ to do that to help another artist. and now it's paying MJ back dividends. anytime anyone sees or hears a geico commercial, it gives people more reasons to buy any of MJ's music.
 
another top forty number 1 by atv....beyonce, single ladies...what do you think? any complaints about using up too much thread space for all the atv number 1's, coming up? lol. or maybe peeps need this thread, just in case anybody decides that MJ is having finanacial troubles again..lol
 
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Sony/ATV 2009 Grammy Winners
Feb 10, 2009

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SONY/ATV MUSIC PUBLISHING 2009 GRAMMY WINNERS

Album Of The Year
Raising Sand
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss
T Bone Burnett, producer; Mike Piersante, engineer/mixer; Gavin Lurssen, mastering engineer
[Rounder]
Phil & David Everly, “Gone Gone Gone (Done Moved On)” (100%)
Dorothy Labostrie / McKinley Millet, “Rich Woman” (100%)


Best Male Pop Vocal Performance
Say
John Mayer
Track from: Continuum
[Columbia]
John Mayer (100%)


Best Pop Collaboration With Vocals
Rich Woman
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss
Track from: Raising Sand
[Rounder]
Dorothy Labostrie / McKinley Millet, “Rich Woman” (100%)


Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance
Gravity
John Mayer
Track from: Where The Light Is — Live In Los Angeles
[Columbia]
John Mayer (100%)


Best Female R&B Vocal Performance
Superwoman
Alicia Keys
Track from: As I Am
[J Records]
Linda Perry (30%)
Steve Moyston (20%)


Best Male R&B Vocal Performance
Miss Independent
Ne-Yo
Track from: Year Of The Gentleman
[Def Jam/Compound]
Mikkel Eriksen (25%)


Best R&B Song
Miss Independent
M.S. Eriksen, T.E. Hermansen & S. Smith, songwriters (Ne-Yo)
Track from: Year Of The Gentleman
[Def Jam/Compound; Publishers: Pen In The Ground Publishing, Universal Music-Z Tunes]
Mikkel Eriksen (25%)


Best R&B Album
Jennifer Hudson
Jennifer Hudson
[Arista Records]
Mikkel Eriksen, “Spotlight” (25%) and “Can’t Stop the Rain” (15%)


Best Contemporary R&B Album
Growing Pains
Mary J. Blige
[Geffen]
Mikkel Eriksen, “Fade Away” (25%) and “What Love Is”(25%)
Thaddiss Harrell “Come To Me” (5%)


Best Rap Albu
Tha Carter III
Lil Wayne
[Cash Money/Universal Motown]
D. Smith “Shoot Me Down” (60%)


Best Country Album
Troubadour
George Strait
[MCA Nashville]
Leslie Winn Satcher “Troubadour”(50%)


Best Contemporary Folk/Americana Album
Raising Sand
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss
[Rounder Records]
Phil & David Everly, “Gone Gone Gone (Done Moved On)” (100%)
Dorothy Labostrie / McKinley Millet, “Rich Woman” (100%)


Best Compilation Soundtrack Album For Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media
Juno
(Various Artists)
[Fox Music/Rhino]
Belle and Sebastian, “Piazza, New York Catcher”(100%) and “Expectations”(100%)
Ray Davies “A Well Respected Man”(100%)


Best Classical Contemporary Composition
Mr. Tambourine Man: Seven Poems Of Bob Dylan
John Corigliano (JoAnn Falletta)
Track from: Corigliano: Mr. Tambourine Man: Seven Poems Of Bob Dylan
[Naxos]
Bob Dylan

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