End of year report

It has been a momentous year for the record business, with EMI being broken up and even Simon Cowell taking a knocking. Here are five key stories to remember 1) Break-up of the year: EMIThe indie organisation IMPALA has, for years, fought against any kind of merger between EMI and Warner. I bet they'd consider such a merger preferable to what happened this year – at least we'd be left with three majors of somewhat similar size.After years of being owned by companies unfamiliar with the working...

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