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...also having more trouble than ever controlling their artists. Prince cut out Sony BMG last July to give away his latest CD through a U.K. newspaper, cannily betting that he'd make up for this lost income by boosting sales of highly lucrative concert tickets. And in October Madonna abandoned Warner Music to throw in her lot with Live Nation, a California-based concert promoter. "The record-label system is built on 100% control," says Leonhard, and major labels "have lost that...
...majors turning into minors? Despite the bad news, that fate remains some way off. Big record companies still excel at winning their bands airtime or prime space on stores' shelves. And for every rebuff from a Madonna, there's an award for a Winehouse, thanks to support from tuned-in record execs. "It's all very well to say bands can do it all themselves; some don't want to," says Max Hole, executive vice president of Universal Music Group International, which oversees Winehouse's label. Many now acting alone admit they got a leg up from a record company...
...other sources of cash - its concerts, say, or merchandise sales - weren't any of the label's business. But now, with album sales plummeting, music companies are chasing juicier income from touring and branded goods. Part of that revenue stream figures in Live Nation's $120 million deal with Madonna. Likewise, U.S. rock group Korn now carves up its nonmusic income with EMI; Interscope Records, a U.S. label owned by Universal Music, even gets a cut from a Las Vegas nightclub endorsed by the Pussycat Dolls. The appeal for artists? Labels can pledge greater, longer-term support - and big, upfront...
...MADONNA, on collaborating with Justin Timberlake on tracks for her new album, Hard Candy...
...goodmothers, and that doesn’t mean we haveto judge them.”Theron said she wanted to give a voiceto someone like Joleen, who is a type ofwoman she feels is rarely featured on thebig screen. “We want women to be eitherthe Madonna or the whore: you’re eitherthe great nurturer or you’re the prostitute,”she said. “Well, that’s not who weare. We’re real people, we have flaws, andwe fuck up just like men, and somehowwe?...