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Re: [L-OT] Zomba has been bought by BMG

2002-06-11 by Elvis Presley

On Tuesday 11 June 2002 11:27 am, Elvis Presley wrote:
> >> subject says it all....
> >
> >Well, they were always distributed by BMG anyways,
> >so I guess it only makes sense...
>
> And why is that so important? Zomba beeing bought by BMG I mean... Unless
> you're Britney of course.

>>I believe it makes them a one-deep record company now,
>>instead of two. Now Britany's label Jive is only two-deep,
>>meaning less middle men and less pie sharing. I may be wrong
>>as I don't know any more about the situation that the  original post.

Hmm, being a BMG/RCA artist myself I've never been aware of the Zomba/BMG connection. Are you sure of this? We have to compete a lot with Whitney Houston etc. for the "inhouse attention", but never Britney, Nsync, BSB, etc. ;-) BTW AFAIK Jive is a sub label to Zomba, but I'm not sure.


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