X5 scores another successful campaign with Amazon US

Wednesday, 18 August 2010 09:09

During the month of July we ran a campaign with Amazon MP3 in the US around a couple of new classical releases from our very popular "The 99 Most Essential" series. The campaign resulted in a chart peak by the end of the month with no less than the 17 first albums on Amazon MP3's classical chart. The best selling new product, "The 99 Most Relaxing Masterpieces", peaked at no.1 on the overall album chart at Amazon MP3 and debuted at no. 55 at Billboard Top 200 Albums chart in the US.

X5 Music at three Swedish festivals this summer

Thursday, 24 June 2010 09:47

X5 Music Group will be attending the three biggest festivals in Sweden this summer - Peace & Love, Hultsfred and Way Out West. X5's CEO, Johan Lagerlöf, will also participate as a panel member in a discussion about ” Entrepreneurship vs. conditions and changes in the music industry”  on the Trigger Conference that is held during the Peace & Love-festival in Borlänge.

For more information:

www.triggercreative.nu
www.wayoutwest.se
www.peaceandlove.nu
www.hultsfredsfestivalen.se

Today X5 released Carola’s new single ”Det är bara vi”

Tuesday, 08 June 2010 09:43

 The song is specially made for the Swedish Royal Wedding that are on the 19th of June.
The song was first performed official on the Swedish National Day-celebration on the 6th of June. The celebration was broadcasted on the swedish national tv-channel TV4, see the performance here!

Upcoming Swedish rock act Adiam Dymott releases her new single with X5

Thursday, 03 June 2010 14:30

Swedish rock singer Adiam Dymott chooses X5 for the release of her new single "Catch me If you can" - a single that features Björn Dixgård from Mando Diao on guest vocals. The song is catchy and suggestive at the same time and heavily driven by forceful guitars.

The single was digital-only released on June 1st worldwide, and is a first taste of her forthcoming album, scheduled for release in Autumn/Winter 2010.

As with Adiam Dymott's critically acclaimed debut album, Thomas Rusiak produces this song and mixes styles as rock, hip hop, soul and r'n'b into his special own blend.

See the video for the song here, made by Mattias Montero.

SXSW Festival in Austin, Texas

Monday, 15 March 2010 15:46

X5 Music will be attending the annual SXSW Festival in Austin, Texas. 17th – 21th of March.
On Thursday the 18th and Saturday the 20th, we're sponsoring the “Sweden Goes SXSW”- parties at Boundless Networks and Antone's. We'll also put together a digital promo sampler featuring all the great Swedish acts performing during the festival. More info to come around this in the near future.

To RSVP to the parties:
Sweden Goes SXSW

"The 50 Greatest Pieces of Classical Music" climbs to the no.1 spot on the classical Billboard chart in the US

Tuesday, 09 February 2010 09:09

The X5 produced digital only album "The 50 Greatest Pieces of Classical Music" by London Philharmonic Orchestra currently holds the number 1 position this week on the classical Billboard chart in the US. The digital only album is a new, cohesive production of the fifty most famous and beloved classical pieces. The album was recorded by London Philharmonic Orchestra in legendary Abbey Road Studios, Royal Festival Hall and Henry Wood Hall in London during September 2009.

X5 Music and London Philharmonic Orchestra hits the Billboard chart

Friday, 22 January 2010 13:11

X5 Music and London Philharmonic Orchestra are collaborating on the largest music production ever made exclusively for digital release. “The 50 Greatest Pieces of Classical Music” entered directly on place 13 on the American Billboard classical music chart.

The album “The 50 Greatest Pieces of Classical Music” is a new, cohesive production of the fifty most famous and beloved classical pieces. The music has been recorded by the London Philharmonic Orchestra at the distinguished Abbey Road Studios, Royal Festival Hall and Henry Wood Hall in London. The repertoire includes, among others, Barber’s “Adagio for Strings”, Mozart’s “The Magic Flute”, Handel’s “Halleluja Chorus”, Grieg’s “Peer Gynt” and Beethoven’s 5th Symphony.

Carola hits the No.1 spot on Amazon’s US Holiday Chart

Tuesday, 24 November 2009 10:15

Carola's new album "Christmas In Bethlehem" topped the chart this week of most downloaded Christmas albums at Amazon.com in the US, before other artists like Michael Bublé, Bob Dylan and Josh Groban.

 On Amazon's overall album chart the album, after a campaign by X5, landed on 53rd place, right behind Lady Gaga and three places ahead of Paul McCartney.

X5 Music signs new talented band

Friday, 13 November 2009 09:52

The Swedish indie pop band Epelectric, who won the talent competition “Opening Act”, is now signed to X5 Music.

 “The story of epelectric is shockingly short, but still so successful. Ten months of hard work has given a brilliant result. Loads of gigs, good publicity in media, great music and a deal with X5 Music Group is the beginning of something that, hopefully, will be really, really big”, says Marco from Epelectric.

 “It is not that common that we work with unsigned bands and artists, but we will give it a shot. They definitely got talent and a good song, so hopefully they will get a break”, says Daniel Bäckström – Head of Creative at X5 Music.

"Founded" is the first single from Epelectric, released online worldwide by X5 Music Group. www.myspace.com/epelectricmusic

X5 hits Billboard Top 200 once again

Friday, 06 November 2009 10:37

X5 has once again entered the Billboard Top 200 album chart in the US, this time with ”The 99 Most Essential Vivaldi Masterpieces”. A very successful promotion with AmazonMP3.com, marketed via Facebook and a number of other websites made the album enter at no 107 this week. This is the ninth X5 album entering Billboard’s Top 200 album chart during 2009.

X5 no.1 label on eMusic

Friday, 06 November 2009 09:33

X5 Music Group is currently the best selling label on eMusic competing with over 34000 other international labels, including a couple of majors. X5 has steadily been climbing towards the no.1 position during this month, and has now finally reached the top. X5's best selling product at eMusic is currently the album "The 100 Best of Classical Music" - today at no.13 on the store's overall album chart.  - "We are very happy to see this development on eMusic. This shows that our products have a wide range of fans over several stores and countries", says Johan Lagerlöf, CEO of X5 Music Group.

 

Carola and Paul Potts in a new duet

Wednesday, 09 September 2009 14:56

Carola has just recorded a duet with one of the world’s best selling artists, Paul Potts. The song is Adolphe Adam’s famous carol “O Holy Night” and will be featured on Carola’s upcoming album with the working title “Christmas in Bethlehem”. The new album includes eight brand new songs, and also the best carols from Carola’s two previous albums, ”Jul i Betlehem” and ”Jul i Betlehem II – I denna natt blir världen ny”, newly recorded for this album.

Paul Potts, the winner of “Britain’s got Talent” and one of the best selling opera singers in the world, recorded the duet with Carola in Benny Andersson’s studio on Skeppsholmen in Stockholm.

- It’s been wonderful working with Carola today, and singing one of the best carols and Christmas songs. It’s amazing to be a part of this project and I’m very grateful that I was asked to be a part of it, said Paul directly after the recording session.

- Paul is a wonderful person, always close to laughter and so naturally gifted. We had a wonderful time in the studio session together and our voices really found each other in the carol, says Carola.

X5 Music Group, who recently signed Carola, will be releasing and promoting this album.

- This is a first step in our ambition to reach for the world with Carola. At the same time we think it’s a very fascinating artistic encounter, says Johan Lagerlöf, CEO of X5 Music Group.

Paul Potts has sold more than 4 million albums worldwide, and recently released his new album ‘Passione’ globally. He is currently on a world-wide tour and performed two concerts in Sweden early this week.

Carola’s new album will hit the Swedish record stores on November 11, and the digital release will simultaneously reach the rest of the world.

X5 Hits No.1 on Amazon.com for the fourth time this year!

Wednesday, 02 September 2009 11:27

X5 Music Group has reached a new No.1 on the Amazon.com MP3 download service this weekend with the classical album "The 99 Most Essential Pieces of The Romantic Era", an album that delivers selected classical pieces of the romantic era. This is the fourth time this year that X5 reaches as high as No.1 on the overall chart, at the same time X5 holds 6 places on the top ten chart in the classical genre at Amazon.

X5 signs Swedish singer Carola

Tuesday, 01 September 2009 09:54

X5 and Robert Johnson & Punchdrunks in new cooperation

Tuesday, 11 August 2009 09:41

X5 is proud to announce a new cooperation with Swedish instrumental and surf inspired rock band Robert Johnson & Punchdrunks. Front figure Robert Johnson teams up with the new member Markus Törncrantz (bob hund, Sci-Fi Skåne, Revl9n) on the new album *100% Pot Success* that will be released globally August 18th. The first single from the new album, ”Tired of Thurston”, is already available, as well as offered to fans for free in a special campaign during a limited period. X5 will launch, market and distribute both single and album to various online stores worldwide.

X5 hits No.1 for the 3rd time this year on Amazon US’s MP3 Top Chart

Wednesday, 03 June 2009 10:00

The album "Five Hours of Classical Favorites" went right to No.1 this weekend at Amazon US's MP3 Top Chart after a successful marketing campaign. The album was promoted at Amazon's MP3 store, as well as externally via third party websites such as Facebook, Gramophone and BBC, which led to the album hitting the No.1 spot.

X5 signs new agreement with MD Music Company Limited

Monday, 25 May 2009 08:30

X5 and MD Music Company Limited have signed a new licensing agreement where X5 will distribute, launch and market MD’s entire catalogue exclusively for the next 5 years. MD Music, founded and owned by Jimmy Devlin, holds a catalogue of some 15.000 recordings representing all musical genres from artists like Chris De Burgh, Culture Club, Level 42, Nazareth,Ian Gillan Band,and Leo Sayer including many other ''In Concert'' and live recordings from the areas of Jazz, Blues, and the Classical World.

Devlin has worked in the music business for over thirty years. His first job was with Dick James Music, the Beatles music publishing partner in Northern Songs. During the eighties, Devlin worked in artist management representing Simple Minds, China Crisis and The Silencers. He has also been the Managing Director at Roadrunner Records, Polydor Records UK and Fleetwood Owen, the on-line music auction house that sold John Lennon's  'Imagine Piano' for over one million pounds. X5 is very happy about the cooperation and is looking forward to working together.

X5 Music Group No.29 on Affärsvärldens list of ”Sweden’s most powerful people under 40”

Thursday, 30 April 2009 08:02

X5 hits another Billboard top 40

Thursday, 05 March 2009 14:23

X5 and Amazon cooperated in another successful campaign in the Amazon MP3 stores in both the US and the UK, which led to a second placement at the American Top 40 Billboard List in 2009 for X5. The album ”The 99 Most Essential Mozart Masterpieces” hit the 34th spot at the list and the album beat artists like Lady GaGa, Coldplay and Lily Allen. The album also hit 2nd place at the digital Billboard list at the same time.

The new X5/Amazon campaign results in a second #1 this year

Friday, 27 February 2009 08:47

X5 is currently running a big campaign exclusively with Amazon on the album "The 99 Most Essential Mozart Masterpieces". The campaign will run throughout the weekend and the album, available as digital only, has already hit #1 at the Amazon US overall chart and #2 at the Amazon UK chart. In addition, the similiar "The 99 Most Essential Beethoven Masterpieces" is currently placed #10 i the US and #5 in the U.K, mainly due to recommendations via Mozart.

X5 releases contribution to "Melodifestivalen"

Thursday, 12 February 2009 12:47

The Swedish boy band “Next 3” is in the competition this year for the Swedish Melodifestival. X5 has already released the first single by the band and will also distribute and market the song that they are competing with to various stores.

X5 number 1 in 12 countries

Tuesday, 10 February 2009 12:53

X5’s album “The 50 Most Essential Pieces of Classical Music” is currently the best selling album on iTunes classical chart in no less than 12 countries, among them USA, UK, Germany, Australia and France.

X5 and Eva Records continue their cooperation

Monday, 02 February 2009 12:49

X5 continues to cooperate with EVA Records. X5 will distribute and market the two new albums “Absolute Love Songs” and “RIX FM - Bäst musik Just Nu! 2009”. The last EVA release that X5 distributed and marketed, “Absolute Dance Winter 2009”, went to number 1 at iTunes Sweden.

X5 releases music for the new Swedish Apple commercial

Monday, 02 February 2009 08:10

Andreas Carlsson, member of the jury in Swedish “Idol” and an acclaimed songwriter with many worldwide hits, has written the music for the new radio commercial for Apple in Sweden. The song “Story of My Own” is performed by singer Anorah, who’s been singing with artists like Celine Dion, Enrique Iglesias and Dannii Minogue. The single was digitally released by X5 in January.

The Dora Steins single in the new movie "I Taket Lyser Stjärnorna"

Friday, 30 January 2009 12:45

X5 is proud to announce that the single "Didn't We Have Fun" by The Dora Steins (released January 27th) is part of the soundtrack for the new critically acclaimed Swedish film ”I Taket Lyser Stjärnorna ” (Glowing Stars).

Absolute Dance Winter 2009 No 1 on iTunes Sweden

Monday, 05 January 2009 12:37

X5 Music distributed Absolute Dance Winter 2009, which went directly to no. 1 at the Top chart on iTunes Sweden store, one week before the scheduled CD-release! On Wednesday January 7th it was digitally released at several outlets; Nokia, Telia Music Shop, CDON, Bengans,Tele2 among others.

Alternative music in new Nokia campaign

Monday, 05 January 2009 08:10

X5 Music and Nokia work together in another campaign, this time in the alternative music genre. The bands The Dora Steins, Jupither and The Breeze the Breath will be involved in the campaign that will be up and running at the Nokia Music Stores in January.

X5 tops Amazon's digital chart in the US

Friday, 02 January 2009 12:07

Shortly after the cooperation between X5 and Amazon was initiated, X5’s “The 99 Most Essential Beethoven Masterpieces” went right to the top of the overall digital chart at Amazon US.

X5 Music Group is the top newcomer on the U.S. Billboard list.

Thursday, 01 January 2009 04:48

The album "The 99 Most Essential Beethoven Masterpieces" went straight to the 29th spot on Billboard Top 200. The album was number one on the Amazon Chart during the holidays which resulted in a top 30 position on the U.S. Billboard 200 and a 2nd place on the American Digital Chart.

X5 contributed to Nokia's Christmas campaign

Monday, 22 December 2008 15:48

Nokia and X5 Music cooperated in Nokia’s 2008 Christmas Campaign, and X5 contributed with music for Nokia’s Christmas Calendar. No less than five songs from the successful album “All You Need For Christmas” were chosen for the campaign.

Best selling record in X5's history - The 50 Most Essential Pieces of Classical Music

Saturday, 20 December 2008 00:22

The 50 Most Essential Pieces of Classical Music is the best selling record ever in X5 Music history. Right now it's topping iTunes classical chart in the US and it's a previous number one in many countries such as Germany and the UK.

New deal with Amazon

Wednesday, 17 December 2008 09:39

X5 Music widens its sales platform in cooperation with Amazon. X5’s entire catalogue is now available at Amazon both in the U.S. and in the UK.

X5 "An innovative and successful company"

Tuesday, 16 December 2008 10:55

In connection with the nomination for the Swedish Government Music Export Price, X5 Music was mentioned by the Minister Of Commerce as a great example of an innovative and successful company in the music industry.

Finetunes and X5 in new cooperation

Monday, 15 December 2008 09:35

X5 Music and Finetunes has signed an agreement and will start an extensive cooperation regarding distribution and marketing activities within both their respective distribution networks.

Olle Nyman nominated as best Singer-Songwriter of the year

Wednesday, 10 December 2008 04:48

Music is proud to announce that Swedish singer-songwriter Olle Nyman is nominated by iTunes US as Best Singer-Songwriter of The Year! Nyman is also currently featured in a big Facebook campaign arranged by Apple and Facebook together, within the US.

X5 produces mobile content

Monday, 20 October 2008 16:01

For the release of the new Sony Ericsson phone X1, X5 Music produced four exclusively made animated films used as included content in the phone. The films are preinstalled in the device, that’s now available on the market.

Dilba and X5 in cooperation

Monday, 01 September 2008 09:54

Swedish Grammis Award winner Dilba and X5 Music Group has signed a new unique agreement where X5 music will launch, market and distribute Dilba's new single "Easy" digitally globally. X5 Music will launch "Easy" via stores such as iTunes Music Store, Sony Ericsson Play Now Arena, CDON and Nokia Music Store.

X5 Signs Deal With Phono Suecia

Monday, 07 April 2008 09:54

Phono Suecia, the renowned record company run by the Swedish copyright collecting society STIM, with the finest in modern art and jazz music, has licensed their entire catalogue to X5 Music Group.

Friendly Noise

Tuesday, 01 April 2008 09:54

X5 Music Group begins to cooperate with Friendly Noise and will distribute and market their music catalog digitally. X5 Music Group will focus on the international market and hopes this cooperation will lead to successful results.

E-Music Distribution

Wednesday, 29 August 2007 15:25

X5 Music Group today announced that they now are starting their full catalogue delivery to the online music provider eMusic. eMusic is the world’s largest retailer of independent music and the world’s second-largest digital music retailer overall, offering more than 2 million tracks from more than 13 000 independent labels spanning every genre of music. For more information regarding eMusic check out emusic.com

Countdown Media - Compilation Deal

Tuesday, 28 August 2007 15:23

Countdown Media is an international music library, founded in 1976 in Hamburg, Germany. The Countdown Media catalogue comprises more than 100.000 recordings of all genres from pop to classical music, including the renowned 101 Strings Orchestra catalogue. The Countdown Media recordings are licensed to companies from all over the world and are used in everything from CD's to corporate premiums, film, television commercials, downloads and ringtones. Countdown Media is part of Madacy Entertainment, North America's biggest independently distributed record label.

No. 1 on iTunes

Wednesday, 01 November 2006 15:37

250 Minutes of Mozart tops the Classical sales chart in the iTunes U.S. Store, and is placed in top ten positions all over Europe on the iTunes Stores Classical genre list. The product contains over 250 minutes of Mozart’s most well known pieces and is a celebration of his 250 years birthday. The plan is now to develop this concept and make special editions, for example for the Asian market, and also expand the series with more composers, such as Beethoven, Bach, Tchaikovsky and others.

Prestige Elite

Saturday, 28 October 2006 15:39

X5 Music has signed an agreement regarding the digital rights for the Prestige-Elite Ltd. catalogue. Prestige Elite has a substantial quality catalogue of over 15,000 recordings covering virtually every genre of music, but especially Nostalgia, Jazz, Blues, Soul, Reggae, Country, Rock'n'Roll, 50s, 60s and 70s Pop and World Music. Prestige-Elite holds a very impressive catalogue and we have wanted to do this for a very long time. This makes the X5 portfolio more complete and we will now strengthen our focus on making new re-compiled products for global availability.

X5 Starts Digital Dance Project With Joel Xavier

Friday, 27 October 2006 15:19

X5 makes compilation/ marketing/ distribution deal with Kinky Vinyl and Whoop Records, and starts a digital dance music projekt with Joel Xavier, co-owner of the labels. Whoop! was started in the summer of 1994 and run by DJ's Andrew Lekker and Joel Xavier who were inspired by labels such as the now defunct Guerrilla and Om labels. This left a gap for the so called progressive house sound, in other words pounding, quality grooves which are neither techno nor commercial house but banging, tuneful, DJ-friendly and accessible dance music.

Music is My Girlfriend

Friday, 27 October 2006 15:17

Music Is My Girlfriend is a Swedish independent record label that has released indie pop music since 2005. Even though their rooster mainly contains Swedish artists, bands like American Fireflies, Finnish Starflower and Indonesian Annemarie are also represented by the label.