Music Industry Today Offers Extended Coverage of WMG's Dispute with Linkin Park Ahead of Warner Music's IPO

Music Industry Today Offers Extended Coverage of WMG's Dispute with Linkin Park Ahead of Warner Music's IPO

WASHINGTON, May 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Linkin Park, America's best-selling rap metal band, has demanded to be released from its contract with Warner Music, in reaction to news that just $7 million of the planned IPO's $600 million in estimated proceeds will go to the company and its artists. WMG Executives have lashed back at the band, claiming its managers operate with 'fictitious numbers.'

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