EMI buyout will be painful, and I'd know

When Universal gobbled up the label I was signed to, I lost out. How can we stop EMI's smaller artists suffering the same fate?Speaking as someone who was directly affected the last time Universal gobbled up a major, the news that EMI Music would be bought by Universal (with EMI Publishing going to a consortium led by Sony) filled me with dread. In 2006, BMG was broken up just like EMI, though in that case the record label went to Sony while the publishing arm went to Universal. I woke up one da...

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