"In 1989, rocker Ted Nugent made a multi-million dollar bid to purchase what company to shut it down as he felt it's ubiquitous sounds were representative of everything ""uncool"" about music?"
"each purchasing individual rights to the music, delivery technology, and brand name for their geographic areas. The company changed hands several times, becoming a division of the Field Corporation in the mid-1980s. Through the 1980s and 1990s, Muzak moved away from the “elevator music” approach, and instead began to offer multiple specialized channels of popular music. Muzak pioneered ""audio architecture"", a process of designing custom music playlists for specific customers. Even with the changes in format, rocker Ted Nugent used Muzak as an icon of everything ""uncool"" about music. In 1986, he publicly made a $10 million bid to purchase"
"the company with the stated intent of shutting it down. ""Muzak is an evil force in today's society, causing people to lapse into uncontrollable fits of blandness,"" Nugent said. ""It's been responsible for ruining some of the best minds of our generation."" His bid was refused. By the late 1990s, the Muzak corporation had largely rebranded itself; as of 2010, Muzak distributed 3 million commercially available original artist songs. It offered almost 100 channels of music via satellite or IP delivery, in addition to completely custom music programs tailored to their customers' needs. According to EchoStar, one of Muzak's distribution"
"launched two new subsidiary labels in the early 1990s: East West Records and Interscope Records. In 1995, East West absorbed Atco Records and was eventually folded into Elektra Records. In 1996, Interscope was purchased by MCA Music Entertainment. During 1992, the Warner Music Group faced one of the most serious public-relations crises in its history when a major controversy erupted over the provocative Warner Bros. recording ""Cop Killer"" from the self-titled album by Body Count, a heavy metal/rap fusion band led by Ice-T. Unfortunately for Warner, the song (which mentioned the Rodney King case) was issued just before the controversial"
"a time, peaking at more than $700 million in gross revenue in 2009, but collapsed quickly in 2009–2010, with many stores closing. Among others, the Australian sublicensee of Ed Hardy (owned and operated by Gary Berman) entered administration and closed in 2010. Hardy blames the collapse on creative and marketing decisions by Audigier, such as Audigier featuring his own name prominently (on one item 14 times, compared to Hardy's once), and prominent association with short-lived reality TV celebrity Jon Gosselin. Following legal battles, Hardy regained control of the brand in 2010, though as part of the settlement Nervous remained a"
"Nets, Rangers, New Jersey Devils and Islanders, and had a significant television advertising presence during local sports events. It also sponsored teams outside the NY area such as the Flyers and Canadiens. In 1998, after having expanded significantly, the chain filed for bankruptcy and was purchased by Cablevision for $80 million. Cablevision eventually dropped the ""Nobody Beats the Wiz"" slogan. At its peak, the firm's revenues were $1.4 billion, with 2000 employees, operating 94 stores in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Maryland, and Massachusetts. It also operated music-only stores in Maryland and the Washington, D.C. area. The chain closed permanently"
"frustrations with PolyGram's constant pressure to force the label to fit into its corporate culture. In 1998, Alpert and Moss sued PolyGram for breach of the integrity clause, eventually settling for an additional $200 million payment. Alpert and Moss then expanded their Almo Sounds music publishing company to produce records as well, primarily as a vehicle for Alpert's music. Almo Sounds imitates the former company culture embraced by Alpert and Moss when they first started A&M. In 2000, Alpert acquired the rights to his music from Universal Music (current owners of A&M Records) in a legal settlement and began remastering"
"filed a $200 million lawsuit against both RSO and Stigwood, claiming mismanagement. The lawsuit was subsequently settled for an undisclosed amount, and after a public reconciliation, the band remained with the label until its dissolution. By 1981, Stigwood had ended his involvement with the label, which was absorbed into PolyGram a few years later. All previous RSO releases were later re-released under Polydor's label, which is now owned by Universal Music Group. The ""Star Wars"" soundtracks would pass through several hands before ultimately ending up with Sony Classical in the 90s and finally Walt Disney Records after Disney's purchase of"
"Sony-led consortium for $2.2 billion. Among the other companies that had competed for the recorded music business was Warner Music Group which was reported to have made a $2 billion bid. IMPALA opposed the merger. In March 2012, the European Union opened an investigation into the acquisition The EU asked rivals and consumer groups whether the deal would result in higher prices and shut out competitors. Coincidentally, UMG sister company StudioCanal had owned the EMI Films library for several years. On December 9, 2011, Megaupload published a music video titled ""The Mega Song"", showing artists including Kanye West, Snoop Dogg,"
"Weezer, Rage Against The Machine, Macy Gray, Blink 182 and Red Hot Chili Peppers. The business continued under his ownership until it was closed in January 2005. The business filed for bankruptcy at the same time and the staff were dismissed with little warning. The space stood idle, threatened with demolition. It was eventually sold to EastWest producer Doug Rogers who reopened the studio under the name EastWest Studios. Rick Adams (Internet pioneer) Richard L. ""Rick"" Adams, Jr. is an American Internet pioneer and the founder of UUNET, which, in the mid and late 1990s, was the world's largest Internet"
"music (1988–1990); and Tuff Break Records for hip-hop music (1993–1995). A&M was bought by PolyGram in 1989. Alpert and Moss continued to manage the label until 1993. In 1998, Alpert and Moss sued PolyGram for breach of the integrity clause, eventually settling for an additional $200 million payment. In 1991, A&M launched Perspective Records as a joint venture with producing team Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis. Jam and Lewis stepped down as CEOs of the imprint in 1997, but they remained on as consultants. In 1999, the label was absorbed into A&M. In the mid-1990s, A&M began distributing its PolyGram"
"of audio processing equipment. The tribute to Meek was due to his influence in the early stages of audio compression. The name and product line were sold to the American company PMI Audio Group in 2003. The current product line includes a microphone series called ""Telstar"", named after Meek's biggest hit. After Meek's death, the thousands of recordings he hid at his studio remained unreleased and preserved by Cliff Cooper of the Millionaires. Subsequent to his suicide in 1967, Cooper is said to have purchased all of Meek's recordings for £300 () . These recordings were called the ""Tea Chest"
"was acquired by Terra Firma Capital Partners, which purchased it for £4.2 billion. Following the transition, several artists including Radiohead left EMI, while other artists such as Paul McCartney had left ahead of the takeover. At the same time, the Rolling Stones signed a one-album deal with Interscope Records/Universal Music Group outside its contract with EMI, which expired on February 2008, and then in July 2008 signed a new long term deal with Universal Music Group. The Terra Firma takeover is also reported to have been the catalyst behind a lawsuit filed by Pink Floyd over unpaid royalties. In January"
"the consolidation triggered by the merger. As of March 2015, over 140 independent labels had placed bids on the rights to the recordings of over 11,000 Warner Music artists, valuing $6 billion. In April 2016, the back catalogue of British rock band Radiohead, who had sued Parlophone and EMI over a dispute in music royalties, was transferred to XL Recordings, the label that released their last two albums, ""In Rainbows"" and ""The King of Limbs"". All labels had to complete their acquisitions from Warner Music by September 30, 2017. As of December 2016, WMG had sold $45 million worth of"
"was available in over 20 countries, in addition to the United States. Rockstar switched distributors from The Coca-Cola Company to PepsiCo in the summer of 2009. Members of the LGBT community have supported a boycott because the company's founder and CEO is the son of controversial radio personality Michael Savage, and because its former CFO, Janet Weiner, is Savage's wife and also CFO of Savage Productions. The boycott was motivated by allegations that Savage had made comments perceived to be homophobic, racist, and discriminatory. In May 2009 San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom returned a $25,000 donation which Rockstar had made"
"the parent company of Cold Chillin', had to pull ""I Need a Haircut"" from circulation, and all companies had to clear samples with the samples' creators before releasing the records. This development reflected the increasing popularity of hip-hop and the financial stakes over which releases were set. Biz responded in 1993 with the mischievously titled ""All Samples Cleared!"", but his career had been hurt by the publicity emanating from the lawsuit, and the record suffered accordingly. Additional bad news came when the video for the track 'Toilet Stool Rap' was labeled Worst Video of the Year on the ""Fromage"" show"
"illicit corporate practices. They cited Pearlman's defrauding the group, which, according to MTV, was more than fifty percent of their earnings, rather than his promise of only receiving one-sixth of the profits. The band, whose self-titled debut album and its quick follow up had commercial success, insisted ""they have not seen enough of the profits"" that they had generated by selling eight million albums in the United States alone. On October 12, 1999, Trans Continental, along with RCA's parent, BMG Entertainment, filed a $195 million suit in a federal court to bar NSYNC's transference to Jive and from performing or"
"million in capital from a variety of sources, including Balderton Capital, Menlo Ventures, Simon Equity, Universal Music Group, and Sony Music. Music producer Rick Rubin was a member of MOG's board of directors. After purchasing MOG in 2012, Beats Electronics in January 2014 announced that the MOG service would shut down in the United States on 15 April 2014. This date was first indefinitely postponed, but then it was shut down on May 31, 2014. Its successor system, Beats Music, launched in the United States on 21 January 2014 and then was in turn acquired by Apple Inc. in May"
"million) and £4.2 million (6 million $) to purchase the music library assets of Death Row. Death Row Records Death Row Records (formerly Future Shock Entertainment and Tha Row Records) was an American record label founded in 1991 by Suge Knight, The D.O.C. and Dr. Dre. The label became a sensation by releasing multi-platinum hip-hop albums by West Coast-based artists such as Dr. Dre (""The Chronic""), Snoop Dogg (""Doggystyle""), Tha Dogg Pound (""Dogg Food""), Tupac Shakur (""All Eyez on Me"") during the 1990s. At its peak, Death Row Records was making over 100 million dollars a year. By the late"
"the use of ""Revolution"" with the ""active support and encouragement of Yoko Ono, a shareholder and director of Apple Records."" Nike discontinued airing ads featuring ""Revolution"" in March 1988. Yoko Ono later gave permission to Nike to use John Lennon's ""Instant Karma"" in another advertisement. Nike was an early adopter of internet marketing, email management technologies, and using broadcast and narrowcast communication technologies to create multimedia marketing campaigns. In late June 2005, Nike received criticism from Ian MacKaye, owner of Dischord Records, guitarist/vocalist for Fugazi and The Evens, and front man of the defunct punk band Minor Threat, for appropriating"
"the earlier decades include the Columbia Records, Crystalate, Decca Records, Edison Bell, The Gramophone Company, Invicta, Kalliope, Pathé, Victor Talking Machine Company and many others. Many record companies died out as quickly as they had formed, and by the end of the 1980s, the ""Big six"" — EMI, CBS, BMG, PolyGram, WEA and MCA — dominated the industry. Sony bought CBS Records in 1987 and changed its name to Sony Music in 1991. In mid-1998, PolyGram Music Group merged with MCA Music Entertainment creating what we now know as Universal Music Group. Since then, Sony and BMG merged in 2004,"
"a total of $69,425,966 worldwide. The Total Nonstop Action professional wrestler Dean Roll, who trademarked the name ""Shark Boy"" in 1999, sued Miramax on June 8, 2005, claiming that his trademark had been infringed and demanding ""[any] money, profits and advantages wrongfully gained"". In April 2007, the suit was settled for a disclosed amount of $200,000. Director Robert Rodriguez composed parts of the score himself, with contributions by composers John Debney and Graeme Revell. Green Day were reportedly set to contribute ""Wake Me Up When September Ends"" to the soundtrack, but Robert Rodriguez declined it. Around the time of the"
"1989. Although the group were free to sign a new contract elsewhere, their strong relationship with the label and its founder Chris Blackwell prompted the band to remain with Island/Polygram by signing a long-term, six-album deal in June 1993. The ""Los Angeles Times"" estimated that the deal was worth US$60 million to U2, making them the highest-paid rock group ever. At the time, the group were cognizant of several emerging technologies that would potentially impact the delivery and transmission of music to consumers in the following years. Author Bill Flanagan speculated, ""Record stores could become obsolete as music is delivered"
"Baez, the Human League, The Police, CeCe Peniston, Blues Traveler, Soundgarden, Duffy and Sheryl Crow. A&M was also the first mainstream major record label to take a chance and sign a California punk rock band, The Dickies. PolyGram was acquired by Seagram and dissolved into Universal Music Group in 1998, and A&M's operations were ceased in January 1999 when it was merged with Geffen Records and Interscope Records to form the record company Interscope Geffen A&M Records. In 2007, Interscope Geffen A&M announced that A&M was revived as trademark and brand and was to be merged with Octone Records to"
"in later years the ""climate"" of record labels may have an increasingly ambivalent impact on consumers who buy music. Reznor's post, specifically his criticism of the recording industry at large, elicited considerable media attention. In September 2007, Reznor continued his attack on UMG at a concert in Australia, urging fans there to ""steal"" his music online instead of purchasing it legally. Reznor went on to encourage the crowd to ""steal and steal and steal some more and give it to all your friends and keep on stealing"". Reznor announced on October 8, 2007, that Nine Inch Nails had fulfilled its"
"Naked Records Naked Records was a mid-1990s independent record label that was set up by former Curiosity Killed The Cat members Nick Thorp and Migi Drummond, and featured the indie rock band Velvet Jones. The company was formed in 1995 and was acquired by software company Eidos in 1996, with Thorp and Drummond staying on in their roles as company directors. After being acquired by Eidos, Naked worked on a theme tune for ""Tomb Raider"" produced by Dave Stewart and Boby Bluebell. The theme tune was never released after rejections from the management of Core Design. Discography includes: Track listing:"
"Naked Records Naked Records was a mid-1990s independent record label that was set up by former Curiosity Killed The Cat members Nick Thorp and Migi Drummond, and featured the indie rock band Velvet Jones. The company was formed in 1995 and was acquired by software company Eidos in 1996, with Thorp and Drummond staying on in their roles as company directors. After being acquired by Eidos, Naked worked on a theme tune for ""Tomb Raider"" produced by Dave Stewart and Boby Bluebell. The theme tune was never released after rejections from the management of Core Design. Discography includes: Track listing:"
"would administer the label's back catalogue, while its current artists would sign with Sony. While Sony BMG failed to win Parlophone (which ultimately went to Warner Music Group), BMG acquired Mute Records' back catalogue and licensed Depeche Mode and the catalogue of The Echo Label to Sony. In July 2005, Sony BMG was fined 10 million dollars after the New York Attorney General's office determined that they had been practicing payola mostly in the form of direct payments to radio stations and bribes to disc jockeys to promote various artists including Franz Ferdinand, Audioslave, and mainly Jessica Simpson. Epic Records,"
"passed away after poor medical treatment for cardiac arrest, since then, N.EX.T has been considered to be on hiatus. N.EX.T's songs contain many cultural criticisms, with ""Turn Off the T.V."" and ""Money"" pointing to mediation and consumerism. Criticism of human disregard for the environment can be found in ""Lazenca, Save Us"" and ""The World We Made,"" which creates musical contrasts between a pleasant, natural world and a terrifying, industrial, human-influenced world. ""Cyber Budha Company Ltd."" tells of a dark future in which humans can purchase small amounts of divinity through the use of machines and credit cards. N.EX.T went through"
"label’s back catalogue. In 2002, Trojan’s new owners acquired former UK rival record company, Creole Records, previously owned by Bruce White and Gary Himmelfarb’s US-based RAS Records. In August 2007, Universal Music Group (UMG) had acquired 90% of Sanctuary Records after announcing in June a share offer that valued Sanctuary at $US87.68 million. In 2013 UMG sold their entire Sanctuary back catalogue including Trojan to BMG as part of a divestment programme that was a mandatory condition set by EU regulators when UMG acquired EMI in 2012. In 2018 the company celebrated 50 years in the business. Trojan skinheads, influenced"
"The deal collapsed over the objections of Lennon, who declared, ""I'm sick of being fucked about by men in suits sitting on their fat arses in the City."" By the end of May, ATV had acquired a majority stake in Northern Songs, controlling nearly the entire Lennon–McCartney catalogue, as well as any future material until 1973. In frustration, Lennon and McCartney sold their shares to ATV in late October 1969. In 1981, financial losses by ATV's parent company, ACC, led it to attempt to sell its music division. According to authors Brian Southall and Rupert Perry, Grade contacted McCartney, offering"
"the legal battle was that Helloween stopped releasing albums and touring for two years and then went their own way. With a stylistic change towards glam metal in ""Pink Bubbles Go Ape"" their sales declined to 25% of their Noise Records heights and resulted in EMI dropping the band after just two studio albums. Machinery Records (or simply Machinery) was a record label founded by Jor Jenka and Anna Rosen in 1989 and also based in Berlin, Germany. The label was best known for releasing industrial and experimental acts, several of which (such as Oomph! and Cubanate) went on to"
"eventually becoming vice president, and stayed on after the company was sold to CBS, but grew unhappy with their management and resigned in 1966. Fender did not like the corporate name, so it changed first to Musitek, Inc., and in January 1974 the final name, Music Man, appeared. In 1974, the company started producing its first product, an amplifier designed by Leo Fender and Tom Walker called the ""Sixty Five,"" a hybrid of tube and solid-state technology that players characterized as ""loud as hell"". The number of designs rapidly increased, and 15 of the 28 pages from the 1976 catalogue"
"of debt. AT&T acquired MediaOne for $54 billion in cash and stock, after a bidding war with Comcast. In 1998, AT&T announced a US$1 billion alliance with BT to offer global voice over IP (VoIP) services, called Concert, sparking rumors of a potential merger. But the parties fought for control of the project and could not even agree on the alliance's name. By mid-2001, customers were being directed to sign contracts with the parent companies, and Concert Communications Services, as the venture was eventually known, was scrapped in October that year. In 1999, AT&T acquired the Olivetti & Oracle Research"