Anyway, let's turn our attention away from EMI, and look at potential redundancies at another major record company. Yes, let's. Though before you all start panicking, this is in the US. American readers of the CMU Daily have permission to panic.
Rumour has it SonyBMG will follow EMI's lead and merge two of its big US divisions into one. As previously reported, EMI recently merged its Capitol and Virgin US divisions to create one group. SonyBMG may now follow suit by merging its Epic and Columbia divisions.
As I remember it there are basically four big divisions to SonyBMG US - former Sony labels Epic and Columbia and former BMG labels RCA and Zomba/Jive. There's no word on the latter two, but the consensus seems to be that Epic and Columbia will become one sooner rather than later, enabling the consolidation of the two division's operations and a resulting reduction in head count.
Perhaps Canadian music producer Bob Ezrin was right when he said last weekend: "In the next couple of weeks, maybe months, there will be a bloodbath at the major record companies".