Music catalogs to digital realm Swedish music label X5 picks up Sun By Andrew Barker Not every new digital music venture has roots in Sweden, but it often feels that way. Less than two months after music streaming service Spotify captured widespread attention with its U.S. launch, fellow Scandi startup X5 Music Group is also… Read more »
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Wall Street Journal publish article about X5 Music Group
“As the music industry struggles to find its way in the digital era, it is seeing unlikely trailblazers in the likes of Beethoven, Mozart and Bach. Last year, the classical-music charts were dominated by two distribution companies: the world’s largest record label and a five-year-old, Stockholm-based digital company with 43 employees, no performers under contract… Read more »
X5 comments on Spotify launch
Read hypebot.com’s interview with X5 Music’s CEO Mr Johan Lagerlöf. Click here to read.
X5 Music, the largest classical music label on U.S. billboard in 2010
The annual 2010 billboard summary shows that Swedish X5 Music is the most successful classical music label in the U.S. sharing first place with Universal. The billboard summary of the 50 largest classical albums shows that X5 has 13 positions, Universal 13, Sony Music 7, Warner 2, EMI and Naxos 1. Univeral actually have higher… Read more »
X5 Music starts new dance/club label
X5 Music in cooperation with Calle Dernulf at P3 Dans has started a new label focusing on dance/club collections. The label will license material from other companies and compile digital collections for the international market. This week the first album is released: Swedish House Trax vol.1. – We think this is a genre that suits… Read more »
X5 Music recruits top executive from amazon.com
Swedish X5 Music continues its venture in the U.S. by recruiting key personnel from American amazon.com. Scott Ambrose Reilly, former executive at Amazon mp3 as well as an icon within the digital music industry has been recruited to expand X5 Music in the U.S. Scott has built the amazon.com music store to become a challenge… Read more »
X5 Music recruiting key personnel from Amazon
In January of this year Swedish X5 Music opened their U.S. office in New York. The U.S. venture starts by recruiting a key person from Amazon. Joy O’Shell is the new COO at X5 U.S. As of this week she can be reached at X5 Music’s new office, located in the Empire State Building in… Read more »
Technology in the Arts
technologyinthearts.org writes about our classical venture Rise of the Masters. “In December of 2010, the company launched their latest classical music series entitled Rise of the Masters. Rise of the Masters is unique in that it highlights the works of twelve of history’s greatest composers, including Mozart, Beethoven and Bach. The recordings feature some of… Read more »
Spotifys principal owner Northzone Ventures is investing in X5 Music Group
Spotifys principal owner Northzone Ventures is investing 7 million Euro in the Swedish music company X5 Music that in a short matter of time has grown to become the leading digital record label in Europe. The new funding will first and foremost be used to facilitate signing of American artists and to increase X5 Music´s… Read more »
Dilba is back – as Eurovision song contest debutant and with a brand new album!
Dilba’s latest full length album “Revolution†came out 2003 and she has been sorely missed on the Swedish music scene. Further demand for new material has arisen thanks to the song “Easyâ€, which she wrote for a TV commercial 2008. It’s about time Dilba reclaims her place in the lime light. And that is exactly… Read more »