Creation As A Record Label
On March 12, 2007 Starbucks and Concord Music Group launched the Hear Music record label. The company's first artist signing was considered a huge coup, with former Beatle Paul McCartney defecting from his long-time label EMI on March 21, 2007.
In July 2007, the label signed Canadian musician Joni Mitchell and announced that her first album of new material in nearly ten years, Shine, would be released on September 25, 2007.
In March 2008, it was announced that Carly Simon had signed with the label, and would be releasing a new album entitled This Kind of Love in late April 2008, her first collection of original songs since 2000's The Bedroom Tapes. In October 2009, Simon sued Starbucks for poor promotion of her album resulting in poor sales and for not paying her all of the agreed advance.
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