Music

This Morning In New Music March 16, 2010

by Ciaran Thompson

The biggest record deal in history has been agreed between Michael Jackson’s estate and Sony Music. The deal, reportedly worth over $200m involves 10 album projects with one of them including previously unreleased material. Sales of Jackson’s music have soared with Sony claiming they have sold around 31 million copies of his albums since his death in June. Amidst leaving behind dozens of new songs Jackson also left behind huge debts, which his estate hopes the deal will help pay off. [BBC]

Gorillaz might be headed for ‘the dip’ as Reggae musician Eddy Grant claims their recent single “Stylo” copies one of his songs. Grant is seeking legal advice in the matter and says there are major similarities between his 1983 song “Time Warp” and “Stylo.” Both Grant and Gorillaz are under the same publishing company, EMI. [NME]

And the new She & Him album entitled Volume 2 is currently streaming in its entirety on NPR. This is the second album from Zooey Deschanel and M. Ward and first since 2008’s debut Volume 1. The album comes out March 23 and the band will be coming to Canada in June to Play Toronto, their only Canadian stop. [NPR]