Universal Music estimated in a confidential 2009 report that the loss encompassed about 500,000 song titles, the article said.
"Oh my Lord... this makes me sick to my stomach," singer-songwriter Sheryl Crow wrote on Twitter, posted with a link to the article."And shame on those involved in the coverup." Master recordings are typically owned and controlled by the music labels for the artists in their catalogue. But they are seen as vital to musicians' legacy as they are original, one-of-a-kind recordings considered the truest representation of sounds captured in the studio.
The New York Times article"ignores the tens of thousands of back catalogue recordings that we have already issued in recent years, including master-quality, high-resolution, audiophile versions of many records that the story claims were 'destroyed,'" Universal Music said.
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