Roger Friedman from the Fox News site in the US has been having a good bitch about Lyor Cohen, the US boss of the Warner Music Group. As previously reported, there is much rumour of stresses between Cohen and a number of other senior Warner people - with some saying that it was a falling out with Cohen that led to Paul-Rene Albertini's departure from the top job at Warner Music International earlier this month.
Anyway, here's what Friedman has been saying about Cohen: "Lyor Cohen may be in trouble, at long last, at the new Warner Music Group. I'm told that someone there has finally figured out that you have to have hits, or at least releases, to run a record company. Warner has nothing on the charts or on the airwaves except for James Blunt, and even he was signed by people who are now gone. In two years, Warner's hasn't broken one new artist. Faith Hill, Green Day and Michael Buble all came from the pre-Cohen/Edgar Bronfman era. A long awaited Diddy album has yet to materialize. By now, even investor Thomas H. Lee must have figured out that he could give away free CDs to his friends if his company had music people wanted."