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milkywaywrites · 2 years ago

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𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒍𝒂𝒔𝒕 𝒅𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆

𝑴𝒂𝒚𝒃𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒊𝒔 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒍 𝒘𝒊𝒔𝒉, 𝒃𝒆𝒄𝒂𝒖𝒔𝒆 𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒘𝒊𝒔𝒉 𝒊𝒔 𝒅𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒂𝒎𝒐𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒍𝒐𝒘𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝒂𝒇𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒃𝒐𝒕𝒉 𝒐𝒇 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒗𝒐𝒘𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒆𝒂𝒄𝒉 𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓, 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖'𝒍𝒍 𝒂𝒍𝒘𝒂𝒚𝒔 𝒃𝒆 𝒃𝒚 𝒆𝒂𝒄𝒉 𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒔𝒊𝒅𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒂 𝒍𝒊𝒇𝒆𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆.

.ೃ࿐ 𝙿𝚊𝚒𝚛𝚒𝚗𝚐: 𝙴𝚒𝚌𝚑𝚒 𝚃𝚎𝚗𝚜𝚑𝚘𝚞𝚒𝚗 𝚡 𝚏!𝚁𝚎𝚊𝚍𝚎𝚛

.ೃ࿐ 𝚃𝚠: 𝙼𝚊𝚓𝚘𝚛 𝚌𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚌𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝚍𝚎𝚊𝚝𝚑, 𝚕𝚊𝚜𝚝 𝚠𝚒𝚜𝚑

.ೃ࿐ 𝚆𝚘𝚛𝚍𝚜: 𝟻𝟼0

You walked out of the changing room in an ivory-colored ball gown. You walk into a big hall, and a tall, handsome young man is waiting for you. Your lover, Eichi Tenshouin.

He smiled, waiting for you to take his hand. There is only music playing from a Graphophone in the hall. You take his hand and he pulls your body closer to him.

"You're so cute today dear." He whispered to your ears. You smiled and caressed his cheek with one of your hands.

"You are also very handsome today."

Despite today being your last day Eichi.

Both of your body moves with the rhythm of the music. You leaned your head on his shoulder as you both danced. This will be his last wish that you can fulfill.

Maybe this is not his real wish, because his wish is dancing with you among the flowers after both of you vowed to each other, that you'll always be by each other side for a lifetime.

Fate cannot be changed, you can't trust the doctor's words completely, but looking at his state maybe what the doctor said was true.

"Cough-cough. Sorry, dear." Your eyes immediately look at Eichi's face, getting paler and paler in any second that has passed. His movement also getting weaker and weaker. Was his time nearing?

"Want to rest first? we still have all the time in the world to dance." You hoped. He shook his head and continued his movement slowly but surely.

"This is rest for me, close to your body like this and just flown away by the rhythm of the music. Only you and me." He closed his eyes and took a deep breath.

If only the time could stop. If only you can spend more time with him. If only you can take better care of him. If only...

He stopped and clenched his chest. Your eyes widen. "Eichi!" You wrap your hand around his hand, which clenches tightly to his chest. As you want to shout and call everyone outside this room, he hugs you and whispers.

"Shhh, I'm fine dear, I'm fine." His soft voice sounded so worried. Worried about leaving you alone, knowing how clumsy and stupid you're in some situation.

Tears flowed down from your eyes. You hugged him tighter and whispered

"I'll be fine, you can go. After this, you'll not suffer anymore. You can fly freely." He smiled at your sentences. he slowly fell, but you kept your hand around him. His eyes slowly closed, and his hand cupped your cheek and caressed it softly.

"Dear, thank you. Remember.. that I will always be looking after you and love you." He closes his eyes, and his hand that was on your cheek slowly falls.

"I love you too Eichi" You hold your sobs until you can't feel his heartbeat anymore. His face is now more calm. You start to sob on his chest, you never regret loving him even if you knew that in the end, it'll be like this.

You'll always be the one in my heart, and no one ever replace you Eichi, no one ever will. Fly away my angel, free from the pain in the world. You deserve it.

I hope this last dance was enough to make you happy before you go.

Thank you for reading! Sorry for any mistakes that I've made

#eichi tenshouin #enstars eichi #ensemble stars eichi #enstars #ensemble stars #fanfiction #enstars fanfic #enstars x reader #ensemble stars x reader #eichi tenshouin x reader #angst #fanfic angst #enstars angst #fine ensemb #fine ensemble stars #eichi angst #eichi tenshouin angst

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xxsmilingdeerxx · 1 year ago

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Hey Alastor I have recently in two things and i have trouble picking which would be better to have and I want your opinion on it, so which do you recommend, a Radio or a graphophone?

📻“Radio all the way my dear friend! It’s so refined. You won’t find any babbled nonsense there, I assure you.”🎙

#hazbin alastor #hazbin hotel #alastor hazbin hotel #hazbin hotel roleplay #hazbin hotel rp #hazbin ask blog #roleplay #ask blog #hazbin rp #alastor

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vodka-01 · 11 months ago

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Blackfyre Records is an American record label owned by House of the Dragon Music Group (HOTD MG). Blackfyre is one of the oldest surviving brand names in the recorded sound business. It is also one of two of House of the Dragon Music Group’s flagship record labels: the other being its longtime rival, Oldtown Records.

Born out of the partnership of Uthero Zalyne, an Iron Bank partner, and Aerion Targaryen, Blackfyre Records was founded in 1916 as then named, Blackfyre Graphophone Company. By 1926, Blackfyre had a growing stable of jazz and blues artists and was on track to being the leading recording company in the country. But due to the stock market Crash of 1929 leading to huge losses in the recording industry, Zalyne sold his shares of Blackfyre to Draz & Co., another investment bank. When Draz & Co. was declared bankrupt in November 1931, Blackfyre, now independent and floundering, was put into receivership. In January of 1932, Aerion was prepared to sell the company to Warner Brothers Pictures, Inc., to be their in-house music label, but due to an untimely heart attack, his daughter, Visenya Targaryen, the only one of his three children to follow their father into the music business, took over as President and broke the deal off.

By 1967, Visenya became CEO of House of the Dragon, thus leaving the position of president to her son, former actor Maegor Targaryen. Following the appointment of Maegor, Blackfyre became more of a rock music label, thanks mainly to Maegor’s obsession with rock and roll in his youth. He signed several leading acts including Longclaw. Longclaw led the way for several generations of rock and rollers that would dominate the scene for a decade. However, Visenya still had a hand in traditional pop and jazz and one of its key acquisitions during this period was Gareth Tyrell. Gareth released his first solo album with Blackfyre in 1973 and remains with the label to this day.

And yet, despite being the man with Midas touch, Maegor’s personal life throughout his tenure had been highly controversial, known popularly as the “Dark Days”. From marrying a suspected Hollywood madam in a highly publicized TV wedding to converting to Mormonism in a bid to have a second wife, as well as rumors of emotional and physical abuse of his partners and being linked to the shooting of the son of a former business associate. Culminating in the spring of 1980 when Maegor was charged with the murder of one of his artists, Alys Harroway, leaving his half-brother Aenys Targaryen to act as Interim President.

In June of 1980, Visenya dies of old age, three weeks before Maegor’s sentencing hearing. At the news of his mother’s death, Maegor committed suicide by self-inflicted gunshot in the office of his Bel-Air mansion while released on bail.

Aenys, unable to handle pressures of being president of Blackfyre, hands in his resignation not long after in January of 1981. Jaehaerys Targaryen, then CEO of HOTD MG after Visenya, holds a vote to determine the next president. After a week of deliberation, Baelon is chosen to lead Blackfyre Records, over his older brother Aemon.

The appointment was met with confusion and frustration, with Baelon being quoted in the 1981 September edition of Time magazine saying “Maegor left a mess, and they handed it to me on a silver platter.” In order to handle the workload, Baelon recruited his sister Saera Targaryen to be the new Label Manager while he handled the corporate cleanup.

And while the 1980s saw the emergence of modern rock, becoming very popular, it was in the late 1980s that glam metal became the largest, most commercially successful brand of music worldwide. Off the back of this new mainstream appeal, Dark Sister, the brainchild of Baelon’s sons, Viserys and Daemon, was formed. And Saera, an avid cinephile and soap opera enthusiast used their band as a vehicle to market Blackfyre and Oldtown Records’ longtime rivalry to massive mainstream success. Yet by the mid-90s the popularity of many of Blackfyre’s glam metal artists had waned with only Dark Sister, Lamentation, and Brightroar maintaining theirs throughout the entire decade, largely by re-inventing themselves.

Blackfyre Records is currently run by Daemon Targaryen in a dual role as both Record Label Manager and President (Viserys previously stepped down due to health concerns).

#rockstar/popstar au #fic: spit your love on me #fanfic lore #hotd #rhaenicent #ooooooh buddy #this was a long one #maegor's section alone had at least an extra 400 words #dude was a menace

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standingontheoutside · 4 months ago

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Wright, Silas, the Weeknd, and the Fear of Losing Control

Richard Wright's “Long Black Song” presents Silas as a man whose worldview that is shaped by dispossession. He loses land, power, and, most critically, his control over Sarah. This is evident in the lengthy diatribe in the story that reflects an "all or nothing" mindset, where a Black man understands his circumstances in absolute terms. Wright's characterization of Sarah and Silas' perspective echo themes in The Weeknd's “I Was Never There” and “False Alarm,” both of which explore loss and male possession. Through Silas’ character and The Weeknd's lyrics, we see how men, both in Wright's 20th century setting and in contemporary music grapple with the fear of losing what they believe defines them.

For context, the story takes place around 1938 in the deep South. Sarah and Silas are doing well for themselves considering the time. They have their own house, farm, and Silas is planning to hire workers. It begins while Silas is away selling the crop yield, whereas Sarah is at home with their baby. A white salesman appears to sell a graphophone, and Sarah cheats on Silas with him. The events lead to Silas shooting at the man and attracting a white mob that burns him and his house.

The parallel between Wright’s story and The Weeknd’s music when we consider the lyrics of his songs.

In "False Alarm," the Weeknd describes a woman. He sings,

"She loves everybody Can't you tell by the signs? She loves everybody She gets off all the time It's a dark philosophy And it haunts her constantly It's a false alarm to me She's a false alarm."

Wright and the Weeknd share a thematic vision. Wright places three men around Sarah. Silas, Tom, and the unnamed white man. It is not explicitly said why Sarah is with Silas, but it can be theorized that Tom is off at war and that she is with Silas because of the comfort he can bring her. The story opens with her taking care of Ruth and fretting over being lonely. She fantasizes about a past love who's gone off to war, Tom, and hopes that Silas will bring her a piece of red calico. Wright paints her as materialistic and selfish, disregarding the challenges that she is facing as a Black woman. He structures the story by focusing on Sarah's arousing remembrance of Tom, her sensual descriptions of the white salesman, and her eventual sexual relation with the salesman. Wright allows this to "haunt" her when it results in Silas whipping her, and the violent confrontation between the white men and Silas.

The seventh line of the Weeknd's description is different from the rest. It becomes personal and directly expresses his viewpoint. This mirrors Silas' emotions. At one point, he yells at Sarah, "Ah gits stabbed in the back by mah own blood!"

As reflected in the Weeknd's lyrics and Silas' view of Sarah, women are something to be possessed. They cannot truly keep these women. To be technical, a false alarm is a phrase used to describe an event that is expected to happen but never does. Relating to these texts, the woman is not who the man believes them to be. The men want control over who the women are. She is not free to be. Silas has no power over Sarah. It's evident in the way she chooses to have sex with the white man because she is lonely, and it's evident in her thoughts about Tom because she is bored. Silas views her as something akin to his land; she is something he owns, and she is supposed to act the part. Instead, Sarah's actions reveal her to be a false alarm.

This all culminates in him delivering his diatribe about what he can and cannot have. He rants to Sarah, "...Ef Ah run erway, Ah ain got nothin. Ef Ah stay n fight, Ah ain got nothin. It don make no difference which way Ah go." Silas' speech exposes the basis of his self-worth. His worth is defined by what he can own as a Black man in the south. It’s been destroyed because of what Sarah has chosen to do.

Considering how Wright writes Sarah and how Silas speaks about the incident, the woman is painted as the catalyst for events. Similarly, in the Weeknd's "I Was Never There," he sings, "What make a grown man wanna cry? What makes him wanna take his life? His happiness is never real..."

And the chorus consists of

"When it's time, when it's time, when it's time It won't matter, it won't matter It was like I was never there It was like he was gone in thin air When it's time, when it's time, when it's time It won't matter, it won't matter"

It's fitting for Silas' situation, considering how he understands what happens to him. As he reflects on the sins committed against him, he realizes that he was never there. The white man would always get his way, and Sarah would never be under his control. He wasn't there physically when she cheats on him, and he was not present in her mind when she was rationalizing her decision to act on her arousal. Common in The Weeknd's lyrics and Silas' understanding is the blame of the woman. It is incorrect to say that Silas' death is caused by Sarah's infidelity. It is correct to say that he chose to pick up a gun and waited to shoot the salesmen when he returned. Silas' representation and idea of self resulted in the events of the short story. This speaks to a deeper feat that both Wright and The Weeknd: the fear that without control, lose not only their sense of power, but their very sense of self.

#the weeknd #richard wright #long black song

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knick-nudiex · 4 months ago

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The North American Phonograph Company was an early attempt to commercialize the maturing technologies of sound recording in the late 1880s and early 1890s. Though the company was largely unsuccessful in its goals due to legal, technical and financial problems, it set the stage for the modern recording industry in the mid-1890s.

Background

Thomas Edison successfully demonstrated sound recording and reproduction in late 1877 with the tinfoil Phonograph. The invention caught the public's attention but its practical utility was limited due to low-fidelity and its single-use nature. Edison sold the rights to the Phonograph to the Edison Speaking Phonograph Company in 1878 and shifted his focus to the development of electric light.

Between 1880 and 1885, Alexander Graham Bell and his associates at the Volta Laboratory experimented with a variety of processes for improved sound recording. They eventually settled on a recording process based on cutting wax cylinders. On January 6, 1886, the associates formed the Volta Graphophone company and were awarded a patent on their wax cylinder process. Later in the year, Edison resumed research on the Phonograph. On March 28, 1887, the Volta associates established the American Graphophone Company for the manufacturing and sale of Graphophones, and Edison organized the Edison Phonograph Company in the following year to protect his new research in sound.

In 1888, a Pennsylvania businessman named Jesse Lippincott sought to market the budding technologies for business dictation. He licensed the Graphophone patents in March, and the phonograph in June. In July, Lippincott chartered the North American Phonograph Company in Jersey City, New Jersey. Edison founded the Edison Phonograph Works for phonograph manufacture, and American Graphophone opened a factory in Bridgeport Connecticut for Graphophone manufacture. Based on the model of the Bell Telephone Company, North American would buy Phonographs and Graphophones and lease them to regional sub-companies, who would in turn rent the machines to local businesses for dictation.

Patent challenges

Before Lippincott could establish these sub-companies, the Edison Speaking Phonograph Company, who held Edison's tinfoil Phonograph patents, threatened legal action against North American, claiming rights to Edison's improvements to the Phonograph until 1912. Lippincott settled with the company, spending hundreds of thousands of dollars that were intended for capital investment.

Between 1889 and 1891, thirty-four regional sub-companies were formed, and licensed exclusive territorial rights from North American. To fund manufacture, Lippincott also needed to sell stock in the parent company, but investors were wary due to the news of the Edison Speaking Phonograph Company's protests.

Throughout 1889, manufacture of Phonograph and Graphophones was limited by North American's lack of capital. Local companies found that the few machines they leased were unreliable and hard to use. Some companies found that it was more profitable to publicly exhibit entertainment recordings (music, stories, jokes) than to rent the machines.

The coin-slot business

The title page of North American Phonograph Company's first catalog, 1890

In February 1890, the Automatic Phonograph Exhibition Company formed, with a patent on a device that let companies exhibit Phonographs with a coin-slot attachment, like a jukebox. Through 1890, companies began realizing that entertainment was better business than dictation, and the automatic machine was the most effective way to accomplish this. North American, realizing that this was the future, signed an agreement with Automatic in April allowing the local companies to do business with them.

As the automatic exhibition model gained ground, American Graphophone's dictation-optimized format (colloquially 'Bell-Tainter cylinders' today) fell suddenly behind. Lippincott's initial agreement with American Graphophone committed North American to buy 5,000 graphophones each year, and pay a royalty of $20 on each. Realizing they wouldn't be able to sell these unpopular machines, North American's board of directors offered to pay American Graphophone $100,000 each year (the equivalent of royalties on 5,000 machines) to disclaim them of their previously committed order.

By the end of 1890, North American was deeply in debt to the Edison Phonograph Works, and was missing the income generated by Automatic's coin-slot business. In December, North American instructed the local companies that they were expected to offer Phonographs and Graphophones for sale to the public. The Automatic Phonograph Exhibition Company filed an injunction on the same date, arguing that unrestricted sale would damage their business, and citing their April agreement allowing them to operate in this way. The temporary injunction was allowed in Dec. 1890, and made permanent Jan. 1891.

In May 1891, North American was forced into assignment (an alternative to bankruptcy) for its inability to pay Edison Phonograph Works. In July, the Automatic company agreed to allow North American to sell 1,000 machines to pay off debts, with the agreement that they were not to be sold for automatic exhibition. Lippincott had taken leave from the company in late 1890 due to illness, and in late 1891, Samuel Insull became president and Edison joined the board of directors to help repair the company's finances.

Edison becomes president

Stock certificate of the North American Phonograph Company, issued March 14, 1893 in Jersey City, N.J., originally signed by Thomas Alva Edison as president. The illustration on the left shows an Edison Class M Electric Phonograph; on the right is an 1888 American Graphophone Company Model B treadle Graphophone for wax cylinders.

In 1892, North American was still struggling to pay its debts when a series of financial measures were taken. In June, the company issued bonds to ease the liquidity crisis. In July, Edison was named president of North American. Automatic agreed to allow the unrestricted sale of Phonographs, and North American offered a deal with the local companies to centralize sales, paying a 10% royalty to the locals for their territorial rights. Most of the local companies accepted this offer.Edison Dictation Phonograph, 1893

Through 1893, North American, under Edison, continued to sell Phonographs, and offered the option to buy the machines on the installment plan. Edison planned to carry on with the business in this way for another year (from June 1893), then planned to consolidate his interests in manufacture and sales.

United injunction and receivership

In November 1893, the Edison United Phonograph Company, who held exclusive rights to market the Phonograph in England, were granted an injunction against North American for allowing the local companies to sell the machines in England, in violation of their exclusive rights.

Edison stepped down as president of North American in January 1894. In April, North American's founder Jesse Lippincott died. This allowed American Graphophone, who had licensed their manufacturing rights to Lippincott personally, to sell Graphophones directly to the public. The Edison Phonograph Works demanded payment on North American's outstanding debts in June. In August, North American, unable to pay their debts to Edison or their bondholders, was forced into receivership. In October, American Graphophone issued a statement to the industry saying Edison's Phonographs, which had incorporated American's patents while both parties were licensed by North American, infringed on their rights and could not be legally sold.

Throughout 1895, Edison tried to buy North American's assets to recover his Phonograph patents and resume manufacture and sale. Other creditors of North American blocked the purchase, worried that Edison would not have to pay their debts if the sale proceeded. In the same year, American Graphophone acquired the Columbia Phonograph Company, one of the strongest regional sub-companies of North American. They debuted the spring-motor powered 'Type N' Graphophone, which gracefully resolved one of the most fundamental problems of previous Graphophones.

National Phonograph Company

In 1896, the court in charge of the North American receivership let Edison buy North American's assets, with the condition that he also accept North American's liabilities. Edison formed the National Phonograph Company in January 1896, and transferred North American's patents and supplies to this company. Edison and National Phonograph fought American Graphophone and Columbia Phonograph in court over patents throughout 1896. When the judge in charge of this case died in December 1896, the warring parties agreed to cross-license each-others patents, and let the phonograph business begin in earnest in 1897.

Resolution

Beginning in 1897, Edison and Columbia sustained a thriving competition in spring-powered home phonographs and wax cylinder records. Edison continued with cylinder records, debuting the mass-producible Gold-Moulded cylinder in 1902, while Columbia transitioned to the disc format from 1901 to 1908 and entered into more direct competition with the Victor Talking Machine Company, which had inherited the disc business from Berliner's Gramophone.

The North American Phonograph Company finally dissolved in June 1898 after Edison settled with the Edison United company. Some local phonograph companies filed suits against Edison over the years, even threatening a class-action suit in 1900 before their original contracts were to expire. Minor battles continued until April 1909, when National Phonograph acquired the New York Phonograph Company. The Columbia Phonograph Company, General (the portion of the business incorporated as a part of North American) voluntarily dissolved in June 1913.

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vision360tours · 5 months ago

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Home for Sale - 10 Graphophone Grove Unit 703, Toronto, ON M6H 0E5 Virtual Tour: https://tours.vision360tours.ca/10-graphophone-grove-unit-703-toronto/

#Home for Sale #Toronto #Ontario #Vision 360 Tours

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kdo-three · 4 months ago

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The Shadows - Apache (1960) Jerry Lordan from: "Apache" / "Quatermasster's Stores"

Instrumental | Rock Instrumental

𝐅𝐋𝐀𝐂 𝐅𝐢𝐥𝐞: 𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐨: @𝐀𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐯𝐞 (left click = play) (754kbps) (Size: 15.7MB)

Personnel: Hank Marvin: Fender Stratocaster Electric Guitar Bruce Welch: Acoustic Gibson J-200 Guitar Jet Harris: Bass Tony Meehan.: Drums

Cliff Richard: Chinese Drum

Produced by Norrie Paramor

Recorded: @ EMI Studios in London, England UK on June 17, 1960

Released: on July 8, 1960 Columbia Graphophone Company (UK)

("Apache") is considered one of the most influential British rock 45s of the pre-Beatles era. - Wikipedia

#Apache #rock instrumental #instrumental #1960s #The Shadows

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ijustwantedtobeoneofthestrokesuk · 7 months ago

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Wave Goodbye To EMI

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Electrical and Musical Industries, or EMI as it’s most commonly known was an iconic British music label that represented everyone from The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and Pink Floyd to Coldplay, Kylie, Radiohead and Katy Perry. One of its most famous signings was the Sex Pistols who only lasted a few months on the label despite giving them a 2-year contract.

Founded in London in 1931 when Columbia Graphophone Company and the Gramophone Company merged. EMI had seen it all up until 2012 when it was the 4th biggest label in the world, then it disappeared. For years EMI was part of ‘The Big 4’ record labels, along with Universal Music Group, Sony Music Group and Warner Music Group however ‘The Big 4’ became ‘The Big 3’ following the demise of EMI who owned other iconic labels such as Parlophone, Capitol and Virgin Music, along with many other subsidiaries which were bought up by the 3 surviving labels.

There used to be several major labels, now many have been bought up by others and the majority of the music industry is managed by just 3 labels while independent labels fight for the rest.

After years of greed, they weren’t prepared for the arrival of the internet, piracy crippled the whole industry, they were all too slow to adapt but EMI suffered the most. EMI started to lose control and by 2006 it had seen their UK market share decline from 16% to 9% and a loss of £260 million.

The downfall continued when Terra Firma, a private equity group bought EMI for more than £4.2 bn in Aug 2007. They paid an inflated price, just before the financial crash and used EMI’s money to pay off Terra Firma’s debt, the acquisition had a ripple effect across the whole industry.

Terra Firma interfered with the label by cutting costs and restructuring the setup which led to some of their biggest artists, Paul McCartney, Radiohead and The Rolling Stones leaving as they were treated like assets.

To cut costs, a third of EMI’s 5500 staff lost their jobs in 2008, the following year they were £1.75bn into the red, however, the EMI Group has 2 divisions, recorded music and music publishing, the debt was related to recorded music.

CitiGroup acquired EMI on a temporary basis in February 2011 then in November its recorded music division was acquired by Vivendi's Universal Music Group for $1.9 billion and its publishing business to a Sony/ATV consortium for around $2.2 billion.

In 2012 EMI became part of Sony Music and the music industry got a lot smaller.

NEXT CHAPTER

#EMI #music industry #record labels #piracy #Sony #Warners #Universal #UMG #WMG

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