Guy Hands: EMI must dump artists to survive

The model of Nipper, the gramophone-fixated dog, remains in the chairman’s office - but that is about the only piece of EMI’s 77-year history that looks likely to survive under the...

Hands in challenge to music industry

GUY HANDS is throwing down the gauntlet to the rest of the music industry to match his much-criticised turnround plan for EMI. “I would like to be as big as the big three [music groups] and bigger,”...

Interview: Jay Adelson, chief executive of Digg

Media companies will have to abandon their efforts to prevent digital music from being copied and concentrate instead on tracking a song’s path around the internet, the head of the one of the...

Radiohead Slam New Owners Of EMI Records

Radiohead have said that the new owners of EMI Records - private Terra Firma - “don’t fully understand” the music industry. Speaking about the reasons for their departure from the label’s...

Spice Girls have ‘backstage bust-up’

The Spice Girls’ UK comeback was marred by tension between the singers on their big night, according to a report. The atmosphere backstage at London’s O2 Arena reportedly turned sour on...