“唱片公司20大赔本买卖”榜单

完整排名：Blender magazine’s Top Ten music industry’s 'screw ups':1. Major labels squash Napster2. Decca Records A&R turns down the Beatles3. Motown sells for a pittance4. Indie promoters take the major labels to the cleaners5. The RIAA sues a struggling single mom for digital piracy6. Casablanca Records go bankrupt despite huge sales7. Music publisher "gives away" Bob Dylan8. Warner sell label Interscope to competitors Universal9. “Digital-rights management” backfires 10. Columbia Records loses Alicia Keys and drops 50 Cent

哈哈~ 第18名是BMG把Clive赶走，又求着人家回来。Come Back, Kid#18 BMG dumps Clive Davis, begs him to returnIn 2000, when company retirement policy deemed Clive Davis too old to run Arista, the label he’d founded 25 years earlier, he was pushed out the door in favor of Antonio “L.A.” Reid. After loud public complaints from artists including Whitney Houston and Carlos Santana, parent company BMG was shamed into giving Davis a nice going-away present—his own label, J Records, along with a $150 million bankroll. Ironically, while J spawned hits from Alicia Keys, Luther Vandross and Rod Stewart, Arista reportedly chalked up hundreds of millions in losses. In 2002, BMG forked over another $50 million to buy J, then two years later ousted Reid and hired a new CEO of BMG North America: an ambitious young turk named Clive Davis Unintended consequence Rod Stewart’s The Great American Songbook, Volumes I-IV

据说BMG为了把Clive请回来，坚决炒掉Antonio “L.A.” Reid。 而这个Ried现在在另外的一间公司，把住几个过气DIVA的大腿，准备跟Clive一决雌雄。

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