It’s been a busy week for Warner Music Group. First we learned that it had acquired the catalogue of Indonesian label ISS, then that it had sold Chrysalis Records to Chris Wright and the Blue Raincoat team as part of its post-Parlophone divestment process. Now, WMG has announced that it’s acquired X5 Music Group (X5)…. Read more »
Read the full article here: (in Swedish) http://www.breakit.se/artikel/2808/bunkrade-musikrattigheter-for-tio-ar-sedan-nu-har-det-exploderat
Read more about X5 at wikipedia.
Universal Music Group and the Stockholm-based digital music company X5 Music Group have launched a partnership to produce digital compilation albums from the catalogs of Universal’s Decca, Deutsche Grammophon, Verve and Blue Note Records labels. Under the title of U5, the company will create and release more than 50 digital albums per month. The first… Read more »
Among iTunes’s top classical albums are plenty by Yo-Yo Ma and Glenn Gould. But the list is also filled with budget compilations, like “The 50 Most Essential Pieces of Classical Music†and “Beethoven: 100 Supreme Classical Masterpieces,†that pack in dozens of “1812†Overtures and “Für Elises†for as little as $6. Read the full… Read more »
According to leading innovation magazine Red Herring’s annual list of most promising ventures, X5 Music is one of the Red Herring Top 100 most innovative companies in Europe. Read more and see all finalists here
…Despite fears that streaming access cannibalizes sales, classical music record label X5 tells me when it launched an app within Spotify and saw streams of one album increase 412% in a month, that album’s iTunes sales shot up 50%. The Swedish label’s “The 50 Greatest Pieces of Classical Music†soon reached #1 on the iTunes… Read more »
…X5 points to the following statistics for “The 50 Greatest Pieces of Classical Music†after the launch of Classify: album sales rose about 50% and the title reached #1 on iTunes Classical bestsellers while average daily streams from the album increased 830% from the prior month. The company says no additional marketing or promotions existed… Read more »
Spotify has just announced the launch of Classify, a new groundbreaking classical music app designed to be the easiest way to browse, discover and listen to classical music over the Internet. Classify is created to be the Spotify home of classical music. Classify addresses the widely acknowledged difficulty music fans have experienced when using online… Read more »
Read about X5 Music’s Cheif Content Officer, Griff Morris  comments about the licensing deals with OneRPM, Cooking Vinyl and Welk. Full story HERE!
X5 Music Group, hailed as “unlikely trailblazers…[offering] insight into the future of music distribution” by the Wall Street Journal, has confirmed breakthrough licensing deals with four important labels covering tens of thousands of tracks in diverse genres. New catalog licensing deals for X5, “one of the fastest growing music labels out there” (APM’s Marketplace radio… Read more »
X5 Music is taking over Amazon.com’s classical chart! The week after christmas, X5 Music had 15 out of 15 first positions on the chart for best selling classical albums. A nice way to end this year. We thank all of you who support and like us, and wish you all a happy new year!
100 years after JUSSI BJÖRLINGS birth, X5 Music is releasing an exclusive CD box with his most famous pieces. Together with the CD, a extensive booklet is enclosed, with preface written by the Swedish famous writer Björn Ranelid. After first week after release (7th December), the album peaked #1 on Swedish Chart for Most Selling… Read more »