9 posts and columns on Total Music

Big Music Label Foe LimeWire’s Newest Executive: A Big Music Label Veteran

in Media on June 29, 2009 at 11:40 am PT

What do you do when your job working for a big music label disappears? You go to work for a pirate-friendly file-sharing service that’s being sued by the big music labels.
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Project Playlist Picks Up Total Music Leftovers From Universal, but Hasn’t Settled Lawsuit

in Media on May 19, 2009 at 1:47 pm PT

The music industry’s online forays have always inspired head-scratching, but this one is odd even by those standards: Project Playlist, the online music service currently being sued by Warner Music Group and Universal Music Group, is bolstering its tech staff by buying the assets of… a music service owned by Universal Music Group. But the lawsuits have yet to be resolved. Confusing? Of course.

Yahoo: You (Don't) Always Have Other Options

in News on February 8, 2008 at 11:00 am PT

Yahoo: You (Don’t) Always Have Other Options

in News on February 8, 2008 at 11:00 am PT

Total Music or Total Collusion?

in News on February 8, 2008 at 12:01 am PT

Universal Music Group CEO Doug Morris’s attempt to wrest control of the digital music market from Apple has–shock!–run afoul of U.S. regulators. The Justice Department has begun investigating Universal for proposing to its three main competitors that they collaborate on “Total Music,” a service that would bake the cost of an “all-you-can-eat” music subscription into [...]

$6.66 Billion? 666 Must Be Larry Ellison's Lucky Number …

in News on October 12, 2007 at 11:00 am PT

$6.66 Billion? 666 Must Be Larry Ellison’s Lucky Number …

in News on October 12, 2007 at 11:00 am PT

Our New Service Is Called 'Total Music,' but We Like to Refer to It Internally as 'Total Panic'

in News on October 12, 2007 at 9:07 am PT

The per-device royalties Universal Music Group receives for every Zune player sold were apparently substantial enough to buy CEO Doug Morris a bigger set of balls, because he’s out drumming up support for an industry-owned subscription service with which he hopes to loosen Apple’s grip on the digital music market.

Our New Service Is Called ‘Total Music,’ but We Like to Refer to It Internally as ‘Total Panic’

in News on October 12, 2007 at 9:07 am PT

The per-device royalties Universal Music Group receives for every Zune player sold were apparently substantial enough to buy CEO Doug Morris a bigger set of balls, because he’s out drumming up support for an industry-owned subscription service with which he hopes to loosen Apple’s grip on the digital music market.