It's on now, Sony BMG! Perez Hilton is planning to
boycott all Sony BMG artists in response to the lawsuit they've filed against the professional canker sore. Perez is unable to understand why Sony BMG is angry that he streamed Britney Spears songs on his site, as the attention he's given her obviously has helped the sales of
Blackout, which has currently sold a quarter of what 2003's
In The Zaa-own pulled. As much as it will pain him not to scribble on the faces of artists such as Britney, R. Kelly, Leona Lewis, and Kenny G, he swears their faces will grace his blog no more. Gasp!
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Sony has completed its buyout of Bertelsmann's 50% stake in Sony BMG. The second-biggest major label will now be referred to as Sony Music Entertainment Inc., thank you very much. [
The poor, yet overpaid sucker who takes Sony BMG's digital EVP slot might want to pencil in "figure out how to make money off label Web sites" as the first order of business. Recently, Columbia Records decided to travel down the Google AdWords route to monetization, a decision that the dude behind Hypebot decided to exploit by taking out an ad for his site that said "Major Labels Are Obsolete." At last count, Hypebot proprietor Bruce Houghton had spent less than $5 on his ad impressions, but if attention from the people he was trying to prank had an actual cash value, he'd have at least enough money to buy the deluxe edition of Billy Joel's The Stranger by now.
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