Brad O'Donnell: Vice President of A&R for the EMI CMG label group

In this clip from www.artistshousemusic.org - Brad O'Donnell , Vice Presient of A&R at EMI CMG, discusses his early years in music starting out as a jazz bass guitar player and expanding to guitar and piano. He talks about his job responsibilities including, scouting, live promos, and helping artists develop. He comments that todays artist is far more sophisticated using technology to arrange, record, and produce their own music. He also comments on the many distribution channels available today such as ring tones, exclusives, iTunes, and so on.

Eddie DeGarmo On What Music Publishing Is (And How To Get a Job Doing It)

Eddie DeGarmo, president of EMI CMG Publishing, discusses publishing in the music industry, including: the various tasks carried out by a publishing house; how music publishers generate income; and how to prepare yourself for a career in the field.

Eddie DeGarmo, President of EMI CMG Publishing in Nashville - About Publishing

Eddie DeGarmo, president of EMI CMG Publishing in Nashville, gives an overview of publishing. He discusses the history of publishing and how it has evolved in recent times. Eddie then goes over the various forms of media a publisher in the music industry is involved with. He also explains the publishers role in developing songwriters into artists and shopping them to record labels.

EMI Signs Digital Deal In India, Pakistan

By Andre Paine, London EMI Music has signed a strategic alliance that covers digital distribution in India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh with Hungama Digital Media, a leading digital entertainment company in South Asia. The agreement covers the distribution across multiple digital platforms and formats, via Internet and mobile. It also includes Warner Music's digital content as EMI and Warner had a licensing partnership covering these countries. Hungama will be making this content - full length music tracks, videos, mobile wallpapers, live concert footage, ringtones, caller ring back tones and other digital entertainment formats - available through its entire distribution network, which includes all telecom operators in the region, partner sites such as BSNL.Hungama.com, and home-grown portals such as Hungama.com, an Indian premium digital entertainment store. EMI Music previously had various deals in South Asia, including arrangements for pre-loading of music with handset manufacturers.

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Snoop Dogg is EMI's top Priority

In a move designed to raise the profile of one of rap music's venerable brands, Snoop Dogg has been named creative chairman of EMI's Priority Records.

The West Coast rap titan and sometime thesp will executive produce a series of Priority releases geared to the label's 25th anniversary in 2010. Company is the home of such pioneering California rap acts as NWA, Eazy-E, Ice Cube and Westside Connection.

Returning to the label that issued his work early in the decade, Snoop Dogg will also issue his latest album "Malice 'N Wonderland" on Priority in December. Produced by Dr. Dre, Pharrell, the Dream and others, collection will feature appearances by rap and R&B heavies R. Kelly, Soulja Boy and Jazmine Sullivan.

His manager, Ted Chung of Stampede Management, will join Priority as brand strategist.

Bill Gagnon, senior VP and GM of EMI Music North America's catalog division, called Snoop Dogg the ideal choice to "take this pioneering label into the future."