Madonna, Warner and the Boxset
Buzzers are buzzing that the judge’s decision to allow the Maverick-Warner Music group case to be heard in California rather than in Delaware, where WMG originally filed its suit, is a big victory and a strategic advantage for Madonna‘s label and its Bert Fields-led legal team.
Latest scuttlebutt is that the ongoing dispute has the Material Gal blocking the company’s release of a box-set retrospective of her career, including music and videos, to accompany this summer’s red-hot SRO tour.
Meanwhile, at Edgar Bronfman’s WMG, many are attributing the company’s current lukewarm chart performance to the distractions that have followed its acquisition from Time Warner and subsequent restructuring. Sources inside WMG say the only multiplatinum artist releases on the schedule through the end of Q3 are Maverick Records’ Alanis Morissette, a Van Halen greatest hits package and Curb’s Tim McGraw.
Source: Hits Daily Double