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If you can get your hand on the latest copy of Billboard (10th January it says on the cover) make sure you read the Opinion piece on page 4. In addition to giving a good pitch, Lala.com‘s Bill Nguyen wrote a short and well formulated article on listening to music online and business behind it. My favourite quote:

“The web is home to more new music each year than was released in many previous decades. Critics say the music is mostly junk – but the same could have been said for the Web before Google made the knowledge there accessible.”

I couldn’t agree more.

When I read this this morning I thought this is an April Fools joke but my friends at EMI just confirmed it: Douglas Merrill will be the new president of EMI (once Guy Hands goes back to focus on Terra Firma business again). I don’t know much about Douglas but this surly sounds like a very clever move from Guy Hands and this really gives me hope for EMI. More soon.