YouTube + MusicVideos = True

[Gaijin von Snikbah]

By REUTERS
Published: June 1, 2007

SAN FRANCISCO, May 31 (Reuters) — YouTube, the Google video-sharing site, has agreed to a deal with the EMI Group to give YouTube users broad access to music videos by EMI artists.

The companies said Thursday that YouTube users would be allowed not only to watch and play authorized videos and recordings from EMI artists like Coldplay, Norah Jones and David Bowie, but also to incorporate elements of the videos in their own “user-generated content.” No financial terms were disclosed.

“With this deal, all four of the world’s major music companies are now official YouTube partners,” said Chad Hurley, chief executive and a founder of YouTube.

Last year, the Warner Music Group, the Universal Music Group and Sony BMG Entertainment each signed content deals with YouTube.

Google’s shares fell 0.1 percent, to $497.91, in regular trading. EMI shares were little changed, down 0.09 percent, to 275 pence.

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/01/technology/01google.html

Sony: http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=sonybmg

Warner: http://www.youtube.com/warnerbrosrecords

Universal: http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=universalmusicgroup

[The Bard]

I doubt that's going to make any difference, they're all probably on there already.

[kyletherobot]

coldplay, norah jones and david bowie...
david bowie is pretty good but don't EMI have any better bands or artists signed to their label to use as examples in a press release?

[harribo]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_musicians_signed_to_EMI

By the looks of that then yes they do have better artists.

[Slaggis]

Theres many on their already. the highest viewed videos of all time are

1. Avril lavigne - Girlfriend - 32 million
2. Chemical Romance - 29 million (didn't say the name of the song)


they are also number 2 and 3 on the all time viewed chart, Evolution of dance is number 1

[Zell]

Evolution of dance is number one. Awesome.