Did the PSB website change?

[Gabby]

The "2020 Warner Music UK" is new...did they sign with a new distributor/label?

[Future Lover]

Definitely new!
http://web.archive.org/web/202008281706 ... oys.co.uk/
This is from just two weeks ago.

[daveid]

So...the obvious question is are they now with Warner suddenly?

[Disco.]

Most likely not, they are probably just hiring them for different things.

[Propertius]

My guess is this is actually quite big—maybe they sold their music catalogue to Warner’s. Former PSB manager Merck Mercuriadis has a company that buys up catalogues and recently acquired Blondie’s, https://variety.com/2020/music/news/blo ... 234725924/ . Several long-established acts seem to be selling theirs as a kind of retirement package. (Not meaning they’ll stop making music, but getting a big cash inflow while they still have time to enjoy it.) I do t know that Merck’s project has anything to do with Warner’s, but maybe the latter is getting in on the act, too.

In any case, a company like Warner’s slapping a copyright notice on an act’s website is about something more than just contracting out some services, it’s a statement of ownership—or so I imagine.

[retrofuturist]

Perhaps X2 has gone the way of Spaghetti Records and Olde English.

[Disco.]

They would have announced it.

[Disco.]

They use Warner’s services sending out newsletters, when new stuff is being released.

[Andie]

I get all my emails from Warner to advise of new Pet shop boys products, releases etc. plus their Xmas card.

[Marie loves PSB]

I think when Hotspot was due out the Pet Shop Boys store (I am sure it was this) went a bit funny one night and what you ordered was from actually now from Warner. The postage was from abroad and expensive and the next day it had gone.

[canveyboy]

I thought their Parlophone catalogue had been sold to Warner ages ago. I thought we all knew about this? Weren’t all their recent Further Listening albums released through Warner? I don’t think this is new.

[Greendrake]

I don’t think this is new.

Parlophone has been part of Warner for years, yes. But they didn't own PSB stuff from Electric onwards. This is new now.

[psbfannyc]

Very interesting. Well...for them to replace "© 2020 Pet Shop Boys Partnership" with "© 2020 WARNER MUSIC UK LIMITED"...that is a huge statement.

[daveid]

The thought occurs that their entire catalogue might now be under one banner and that x2 is now part of it.

[Disco.]

If they did that they most likely got a good deal. Time will tell.