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Warner to quit free music streaming

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Share Record label Warner Music is to stop licensing its songs to free online music streaming services. Companies like Spotify, We7 and Last.fm offer free, legal and virtually instant access to millions of songs. is not the kind of approach to business that we will be supporting in the future Edgar Bronfman Jr, Warner Music Warner, one of... »

Aretha to perform at Motown gala

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Share Singers Aretha Franklin and Stevie Wonder are among the musicians expected to perform at a Motown gala to mark the record label’s 50th anniversary. The Detroit event on 21 November will also feature tributes to Michael Jackson and Four Tops star Levi Stubbs, who died last October. Wonder will perform a tribute to the label’s founder... »

Guns N’ Roses sued over ’sample’

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ShareGuns N’ Roses are being sued for $1m (£630,000) over claims they sampled two tracks by German musician Ulrich Schnauss on their Chinese Democracy CD. Schnauss’s UK and US record labels claim the song Riad N’ the Bedouins borrowed from his compositions Wherever You Are and A Strangely Isolated Place. Guns N’ Roses band members, producers... »

Pope to be heard on album

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Pope Benedict XVI is to be heard singing and speaking on an album to be released on the record label that was home to Guns N' Roses. »

Talking Shop

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Gruff Rhys on plans for his own Welsh record label »

‘No rush’ for new Jackson songs

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New music recorded by Michael Jackson before his death is likely to be released - but not yet, the president of his record label says. »

Whitney comeback set for release

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Singer Whitney Houston's first album in seven years is to be released at the end of the summer, her record label announces. »

‘Queen of Blues’ Koko Taylor dies

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Multi-award winning blues singer Koko Taylor dies in hospital in Chicago at the age of 80, says her record label. »

Jay-Z parts with Def Jam Records

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US rapper Jay-Z confirms he has parted ways with Def Jam, the record label where he once served as president. »

X Factor winner Jackson dropped

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Scottish singer Leon Jackson, winner of The X Factor in 2007, is dropped by his record label after just one album. »

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