Portal:Music/Music news/May 2007

May:

• May 30: Eurovision Song Contest 2006 winners Lordi are to star in a horror movie.n:Lordi to star in horror movie
• May 27: Japanese singer Izumi Sakai, who is best known as the vocalist of Zard, dies of brain contusion, she was 40. [1]
• May 23: European Union regulators have given Universal Music Group clearance to buy BMG Music Publishing for $2.09 billion. The European Commission was concerned about antitrust problems with the original deal, and that Universal would have had a monopoly over some countries' music charts. Universal therefore sold some of its song catalogues. If the deal now goes ahead, it will create the world's largest music publishing company.[2][3]
• May 21: The British music company EMI is to be bought for £3.2 billion ($4.7 billion) by Terra Firma Capital Partners.[4]
• May 12: Serbia has won the Eurovision Song Contest 2007. Marija Šerifović won the competition with the song "Molitva". It is the first time Serbia has won the competition (after separating from Montenegro). Ireland received the fewest number of points for the first time ever in the competition. [5]
• May 12: The final of this year's Eurovision Song Contest is taking place on Saturday May 12th in Helsinki, Finland. [Article]
• May 9: Singer Akon has apologised after doing a sexually explicit dance in a concert with a 14-year-old girl.[6]