Recapping a Historic Day

ALL THE NEWS THAT’S FIT TO DIGITIZE: It’s been a historic day in the record business, with the storied EMI Music going to Universal Music Group, with the complete story here and here. EMI’s Roger Faxon issued his own statement via an internal memo, which you can read here. With the Sony/ATV acquisition of EMI Music Publishing about to go down, online chatter that David Geffen was involved in the consortium to buy the pubbery can be seen below. Let’s take a deep breath, everyone, and see what goes down next week. All we know is 11/11/11 has turned out to be a helluva date. (11/11p)