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Stones rolling: group leaves EMI for Universal
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The Rolling Stones have left EMI, their long-term home, to sign a new deal with major-label rival Universal.
The deal covers not only new releases, but also includes catalogue albums dating all the way back to 1971's Sticky Fingers.
The move ends months of industry speculation and heaps more pressure on EMI, who last year lost the services of Radiohead and let over a thousand employees go at the start of 2008. It is understood that they were very keen to keep the Stones on their books. Well d'uh.
The Stones have already (sort of) released through Universal, as Shine A Light, the soundtrack album to the Martin Scorsese movie of the same name, was released via the company earlier this year.
I saw the Stones at Twickenham two summers ago. True story.
From the archive
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I can't see how this makes much difference to EMI
The Stones didn't exactly sell many copies of their new albums, did they? They make their money from live gigs.
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How many major labels are there these days?
Can't be many.....
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the big four =
warner
emi
sony
universal -
It will be three soon
with the way EMI are haemorrhaging acts and money.
And if that happens, I bet you a million billion gazillion pounds they'll blame illegal downloading.
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i wonder if
the stones sell as many albums as hannah montana though.
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Well...
you can't really beat the current queen of tween, can you?
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They won't get the ABKCO ones
will they?
They're the best.
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try
a cricket bat
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who is there left
on emi?
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The Beach Boys, Beastie Boys and Beatles
What more do you need?
Oh, and Sigur Ros. -
Shine a Light did
250k worldwide
50k in UK - pretty impressive in current climate.
Also it means that they are now able to repackage all their pre 1971 decca recordings (owned by Universal).
And there is also the Oldham connection..
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