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Tom Whalley has left WBR


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I think this will end up being a step in the right direction for WMG as a whole. To put it bluntly, Tom Whalley is a dinosaur of the music business. Yeah, he's only been president of the company for 9 years or so, but he's probably pushing 70 years old at this point, and he's been with the company since the 1970s. If you look at the "big four" labels, WMG has by far had the most issues with licensing their music to third party companies like Youtube, the Rock Band/Guitar Hero games, etc. over the past few years. That's probably because of Tom's outdated business models and the fact that he wouldn't accept that the music business isn't what it was 10 years ago. He knew how to run the company, but his way of going about it was severely outdated.

 

Having a younger guy like Rob Cavallo in charge who is greatly involved with modern acts and understands the way things work these days is probably going to result in a much more up-to-date business model for the company, and hopefully help get a lot of the licensing issues plaguing WMG worked out.

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lol so they just need to do another live CD/DVD and a Greatest Hits album and then it's goodbye to Warner! haha

 

or other studio album asap

 

http://www.hitsdailydouble.com/news/newsPa...gi?news08224m01

 

260k is to weak for lp, i think if this album doesn't works, they will need do one better and after this leave the label , but before make a greatest hits

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Does that include digital sales and sales via linkinpark.com?

 

yes, digital sales are included in this number, is very weak, but the haters are loving that, but would be worse...

if they continued with new metal, they would sell at least 30k in first week

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