Though Jack White never earned a No. 1 album as part of the White Stripes, he’s on course to top next week’s Hoarding 200 — as a solo function. His solo debut turn, “Blunderbuss,” is aiming to bow at No. 1 on the Hoarding 200 chart next week with fro 100,000 to 120,000 sold (so say industry prognosticators). Jack White Composition ‘Lone Ranger” Total; Third Man Records Truck Giving Away Concert Tix in NYC The new Hoarding 200 chart’s acme 10 will be revealed on the morning of Wednesday, May 2. A No. 1 album has eluded White thus obviously. His bands the White Stripes, the Raconteurs and the Dead Weather have amassed a total of seven supreme 10 albums. The highest chart of any of those band’s releases was the White Stripes’ 2007 album “Icky Thumping,” which bowed and peaked at No. 2 (stuck behind Bon Jovi’s debuting “Lost Highway” at No. 1). Jack White to Live Barrage ‘Blunderbuss’ Release Concert, Gary Oldman to Straight Other albums on course for a culmination 10 debut next week include Lee Brice’s “Incontrovertible 2 Predilection,” The Wanted’s self-titled U.S. debut and Kip Moore’s “Up All Blackness.”

David Sharpe, the former SVP of Island Records, was promoted to the newly-created post of COO of Universal Music UK. The promotion was announced last Friday by Chairman and CEO of Universal Music UK David Joseph. Sharpe will report to Joseph and work with him across all of the company’s labels and business units. Sharpe had been at Island since 2003, beginning as a Finance Director before assuming his most recent circumstances, where he headed Island’s banking, sales, pricing, catalog and digital responsibilities, as well as helping to create artist web shops and ticketing deals for many of the label’s clients. Before joining Prevailing, Sharpe worked with UMTV, Virgin Records UK and Capitol Records in Los Angeles. “I am delighted to be taking on this role and to be working more closely with David and Boyd,” said Sharpe in a unveil. “These are very exciting and challenging times in the music business and I’m looking forward to helping to grow Universal Music’s area.” In another high level shakeup at Universal UK, Chief Financial Officer David Bryant left the concern, reportedly to pursue new opportunities. “I’d like to thank David Bryant who has been so integral to the business and for the huge contribution he has made in his 17 years as part of the senior team at Universal Music,” said Joseph in a communication.

Vevo In Hot Water Over Super Bowl Solecism On Friday the International Intellectual Property Alliance released a inquire into – its yearbook “Unusual 301″ reassess — that documents global copyright plagiarization. The IIPA calls in favour of “swift hoopla” by US legislators to address the concerns raised in the record. And it recommends 10 countries, including China and Russia, be placed on the Priority Watch list into 2012. The timing of the report is a bit ironic given a recent piracy mishap by Vevo, a music video joint venture between Universal Music Group and Sony Music Enjoyment. While few people are likely to note the IIPA’s write-up, millions are sure to see a blog post from the previous day that undermines record companies’ please for protection from plagiarisation. Here’s what happened: Vevo and a few other companies held events in a Park Urban district, Utah venue during the Sundance Film Carnival. As TechCrunch’s Jason Kinkaid explains, TVs and laptops at Vevo’s event were used to show the Super Bowl scatter. The problem is that the broadcast was being streamed by TuTele.tv via an aggregator of live sports streams called Frontrow.tv. Kinkaid was not sure how long the illegal stream was showed at Vevo’s arrange, but he claims it was playing for the intact 30 minutes he was thither. Kinkaid points out the obvious difficult: Vevo’s owners and content partners represent the same music industry companies that want anti-piracy legislation like SOPA and PIPA to force U.S. ISPs to block access to streaming sites like TuTele.tv and Frontrow.tv. This incident does not represent an endorsement of plagiarism, but it sure does look vicious. When reached for comment by TechCrunch, Vevo said the event was produced by a creative agency called Continuum Entertainment and the television sets were supposed to show only Vevo videos and “original delight.” Vevo CEO Rio Caraeff gave a more detailed explanation in a blog post Friday cocktail hour. The company says a laptop that fed into large TV screens around the bar was “easy accessible to the well-known” and the illegal broadcast was streamed “externally (Vevo’s) knowledge or approbation.” When Vevo staff realized what was occurrence, the Super Bowl stream was removed. “The game was not aired in its totality,” wrote Caraeff. “Rest assured, we rectified this mistake as soon as we became aware what was going on.” People in the tech community won’t have much pity for copyright owners who are themselves associated with copyright breach. Exactly, the rhetoric was furious to the point of being funny (although no comic intent is patent). TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington has called for criminal charges for Vevo’s executives. ” I’d believe they’d serve five age,” he wrote. TechDirt’s Mike Masnick was equally umbrageous. “I eagerly await ICE moving in to arrest Vevo execs for this blatant criminal occupation.” Seeking jail time for Vevo executives is a strained, of circuit. But it doesn’t look good when the IIPA calls for India to be on the Priority Watch List allowing for regarding 2012 due to factors such as “Pay TV stealing” the day after Vevo’s Super Bowl blunder became famous. Caraeff did the right thing hither: he admitted what happened and emphasized that Vevo is “very sensitive to what happened at Sundance and the issues it has raised.” Excuses or obfuscation would not have helped. If anything, Caraeff underscored the fact that piracy is a widespread problem even if it seems innocuous at the individual unfluctuating. The moral of the story is entertainment companies need to sweat the small stuff when it comes to copyright transgression. Fighting copyright is a political strive against, and politicians need to keep their noses sanitary. In the grand scheme of things this Super Bowl mishap is about as benign as unknowingly hiring an undocumented worker to clean your assembly – but the latter has proved troublesome in more than one political pursuit. ( TechCrunch) INgrooves Incorporates SoundCloud for Sharing INgrooves has integrated SoundCloud into its ONE Digital distribution and asset management policy. As a crop, clients will have a one-click solution to share their music through SoundCloud. “Our goal is to provide INgrooves clients with the most innovative and popular marketing tools available to the music businessmen,” said Jeff Stubble, Director of Strategic Partnerships and Licensing for INgrooves, in a assertion. Slacker Radio Nabs Disney Exec For Directorate — Internet radio company Slacker has appointed veteran digital media executive Steve Wadsworth to its directorate. Wadsworth wearied 17 years at the Walt Disney Company with settled 11 of those years as chief executive in charge of Internet and digital media. Most recently Wadsworth was president of Disney Interactive Media Batch. Slacker offers a mix of personalized Internet radiocommunication, programmed radio stations and customizable news stations from ABC News and ESPN Broadcast. Slacker Radio is free with advertising or $3.99 per month for an ad-free level appointment. Slacker On-Demand adds on-demand access to the music catalog to $9.99 per month. ( Press announcement) RIAA Chief Slams Wikipedia, Yahoo — Check out the tough words from RIAA chief executive Cary Sherman in an op-ed in the February 7 New York Times. Before calling on SOPA and PIPA opponents to set forth “constructive alternatives,” Sherman went after popular, consumer-facing technology companies who he argues don’t distinguish between news and position statement. “When Wikipedia and Google purport to be neutral sources of erudition, but then exploit their stature to present information that is not only not neutral but affirmatively incomplete and shoddy,” he wrote, “they are duping their users into accepting as truth what are merely self-serving political declarations.” As usually happens with online posts, the real entertainment comes from the comments. The RIAA gets little sympathy from readers who call Sherman’s post things undifferentiated “utter trash” and “a technologically oblivious, ham-fisted condemn.” Read through the comments and you’ll get a panorama of viewpoints – mostly nullifying – on the RIAA and music byplay. Quite good reading. ( Unheard of York Times, via Copyhype)

Cornerstone and Fader Media Group kicked off New York Fashion Week Wednesday night with a showcase for Fader Label singer Yuna. Held at Cornerstone client Converse’s Rubber Tracks Studio in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, the event doubled as a performance from the 25-year-old Malaysian singer and a listening party for her forthcoming self-titled album, due Slog 27. Yuna was intro’d by Pharrell Williams, who produced many of the album’s key tracks including the new undivided “Live Your Get-up-and-go” and invited the audience to “hear what we hearken” in her music. The jazzy set fused homespun ’70s singer-songwriter with tropical rhythms and beats (with traces of Regina Spektor, Sade and Sergio Mendes), and also included her strange “Ornament” as well as a stripped-down take on Nirvana’s “Come As You Are.” Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon On (Not) Playing the Grammys, Endorsing Bushmills See all of our Backbeats right hither The intimate crowd was comprised mostly of Cornerstone executives like founder/co-president Rob Stone and Fader Media CEO Andy Cohn, while guests sipped on cocktails compliments of Bushmill’s and Qream, Pharrell’s vodka-based liqueur. In a very quick chat with Backbeat after Yuna’s differentiate b reserve, Pharrell said his recent musical work has included Jay-Z (“Gratitude”), Rick Ross, along with Adam L, the Scissor Sisters and “lotsa pop sh–.” He was out the door before we could ask him about his work on the Oscars, where he and Hans Zimmer are musical consultants for the be noticeable, which airs February. 26. Backbeat: Kendra Morris Plays Pharrell’s Qream Tasting Party at Cornerstone HQ But Cohn was also a hot topic at the defendant, having tweeted a few choice words about his former employer Spin earlier that siesta. The magazine unveiled its new design on Wednesday featuring March cover band Sleigh Bells, with a Fader-esque aesthetic that prompted Cohn to nip, “in their continued not-so-veiled efforts to become The FADER, @SPINmagazine named their new issuance “THE NOW GO FORTH”!!” and shared a picture of Fader’s own most new “Now Children.” Cohn, ahem, playfully declined to comment on the situation when cornered by Backbeat, but his tweets do make further comment superfluous…

NBC’s Today show has announced the acts for their 17th annual Summer Concert Series, and the lineup does not balk. Toyota is again sponsoring the weekly morning live concerts, kicking off Friday, May 18, with Usher for his first-ever Today carrying-on. Justin Bieber Returns to No. 1 on Public 50 Map Returning to the summer concert series are Chris Brown and Justin Bieber. Last summertime, Brown drew an estimated 18-20,000 people to Rockefeller Centerfield, the biggest Today show crowd all the time (beating out Bieber’s enormous crowd in 2010). The concert series will also feature newcomers Hot Chelle Rae in their first morning show concert, and two Today show favorites, Strand 5 and Sequence. Chart Moves: Usher’s ‘Acme’ Arrives, Young the Giant’s ‘Gloat’ On, Forsake 5′s ‘Men’ Hits 1 Meg For the country lovers in New York Burgh, Kenny Chesney, The Band Perry and The Zac Brown Band will all be headlining free Today concerts this summertime. Something new this yr: Today is partnering with Pandora to extend the concert series beyond the Plaza and into the cobweb. Pandora will create three Today Summer Concert Series stations: NBC Today Tor, NBC Today Country and NBC Today Report, featuring each of the artists appearing in the series throughout the summertime. Carrie Underwood, Justin Bieber, LMFAO, The Wanted to Perform at Billboard Music Awards Fans can catch the concerts for free on a first-occur, first-serve basis outside Today’s window-on-the-world studio, located at 49th Street and Rockefeller Plaza in New York Town. Fans should arrive nigh 6 a.m. for best wake, according to MSNBC. Read on below for the full line-up. More acts and guest appearances are expected to be announced throughout the edible. May 18: Show May 25: Pitbull May 31: American Idol winner and runner-up (special Thursday acting) June 1: The Band Perry June 8: Chris Embrown June 15: Justin Bieber June 22: Kenny Chesney June 29: Seclude 5 July 
6: Flo Rida July 13: Zac Brown Corps July 20: Hot Chelle Rae August
 24: Drill August 31: Jason Mraz with special visitor Christina Perri

John Hash of, vice president of relief, Quarry (nautical port); with Emilion Estefan, President, Estefan Enterprises. (Picture: Michael Seto) As record sales remain flat and labels tighten their belts in producing and releasing records, brands have stepped up to the charger, giving musicians a new source of revenue and vouch for. Agencies, products and corporations are targeting U.S. Hispanics – especially the savvy U.S.-born Latino consumer – and one of the things that move this consumer ultimate: Music. Billboard Latin Music Forum & Awards: All Our Coverage Hither For Butt, music in both cultures has been a great promotional tool and connector to their customers, said John Stumbler, vice president of entertainment for the giant chain who sat on the “Targeting Music” panel with Emilio Estefan, Chairman of Estefan Enterprises.The mega retailer has worked with stars like Taylor Hasty, Adele and Black Eyed Peas. And during the Latin Billboard Music Awards show on Thursday, the store will debut a new commercial featuring Jenni Rivera, Wisin and Yandel and Pitbull. “Music has been a key ingredient in our outcome,” Butcher said. “Music is one of the most dynamic influences in our culture… and brings a connection between our grades, our customers and our stores.” Particularly Latin music has become a big huge quantity, he added. “Latin artists infuse the target brand with a unique vibrancy and while we have always offered Latin music, we haven’t always understood it like we do now,” Butcher said, adding that the sales of Latin music lead the hang on. Emilio Estefan (compensate) besieged by fans, well-wishers and CDs. (Pic: Michael Seto) “Our Latin music category has significantly outpaced all other music genres in our stores,” Butcher said, adding that the store has expanded its Latin music room. That has made the corporation pay more attention and, in June, Target will unveil a special section near the aisles commanded “Emilio Estefan’s Picks” in June, featuring selections that are hand-picked by the Miami music mogul himself. That is a big deal intrinsically, Butcher said. “At Aim, we are control freaks. We never let anyone else make our picks.” Estefan said he was glad to be part of something that could help new talents. “It is very electrifying. When it was just me, Santana, Feliciano, Julio, there wasn’t so much possibility.” Emilio Estefan holding CDs after the Tageting Music panel given by audience pieces. (Picture: Michael Seto) Estefan was grateful for the plethora of opportunities available to artists now. “Thank God we have too lots, because labels have no money anymore,” he said. “So thank God we have companies like Pepsi and Target who want to expose new music. “The only way to help new artists today is with Target and AT&T,” said Estefan, who announced he would likely decide 10 new artists this year to Target and other labels. And that’s good news to artists through “when Emilio brings something to us and says ‘You got to listen to that. These people are wonderful.’ We hark to,” Butcher said. The Reaching The New Latino Marketing Venire: From leftfield: Mc: Rick Marroquin, Lifestyle Hand, CAA; Carlos Munoz, SVP/Group Account Kingpin, Globalhue; Jorge Plasencia, Chairman/CEO, Republica; Lily Juliano, National Hispanic Segment Forewoman, Verizon Wireless; Javier Farfan, Senior Big cheese, Cultural Stigmatization, PepsiCo.; Gustavo Lopez, EVP of Brand Partnerships & Digital, UMLE. (Pic: Michael Sera) “The music ecosystem has changed,” said Javier Farfan, senior director of cultural branding for PepsiCo at the Reaching the New Latino panel focusing on how brands and agencies are targeting the “Unique” U.S. born Latino via music and music branded events.. “Everybody knows social media and how it works, who said the promotions are not stylish, but the tools are. “The problem is how am I going to use that genuinely?” Jorge Plasencia, Chairman/CEO, Republica and Lily Juliano, National Hispanic Segment Administrator. (Pic: Michael Seto) Lily Juliano, National Hispanic Segment Manager for Verizon Wireless, said it’s about finding the right music partner for your target class. “We love crossover talent that basically lives where and how our audience lives,” said Juliano. He mentioned as an example Verizon’s multi-city tour last year with singer/songwriter Prince Royce during the “My Fabulous Quince” promotion in which one lucky teenager got the star to appear and perform at her quinceañera. “He was wonderful to work with and he worked well with the youth and also beloved by the parents,” Juliana said. “For us, biggest isn’t always best….One of the key things is they have to be reachable. They have to be genuine. They have to be people you can sit at the dining room table with. And that has to work both ways, said Erica Moreira, an attorney who works on sponsorship deals at the panel entitled Approaching Brands For Your Musical Fallout. “It starts with artists understanding their own brand and making sure the artist’s brand and sponsor’s brand are aligned,” Moreira said, during a panel on “approaching brands for your musical goods.” Tricia Bonce, director of Hispanic sponsorships at AT&T, which has featured Paulina Rubio in its advertising that won a marketing award later Tuesday eve, agreed.”We want our artists to believe in the fallout” Bean said. “If you’re an artist and you’re an ambassador for Cover Squeeze, you better use that lipstick and you better love it.” The days of simple endorsements are long kaput, said Mayna Nevarez, CEO of Nevarez Communications, which represents Daddy Yankee and also won an award for the Western Togetherness “Love in any Brogue” campaign that Daddy Yankee unveiled at the 2011 Latin Billboard Music Talk. “Companies today want a brand ambassador to do media interviews, to be active in social media,” Nevarez said. Jorge Plasencia, chairman and CEO of República, said the new marketing power of the Hispanic consumer bloc is only going to lead to more partnerships and marketing opportunities. But, he warned, they must be culturally associated. “We talk about the two worlds we live in and that our culture lives in” Plasencia said, adding that there is a resurgence of Latism in what some call the “new Latino,” who is often U.S.-born and predominantly English-speaking but still culturally Hispanic. “While other generations wanted to shun their Hispanic discrimination, people now want to celebrate our culture as they see Sofia Vergara on Saturday Night Submit to.”

More than the dry wit of Pith, Swedish punk of Refused or the trippy pyrotechnics of Swedish House Mafia, the opening day of the opening weekend of Coachella 2012 belonged to Mother Cosmos. With drops of rain plunking down upon the Indio, Khalifah. Polo grounds and gusts of wind rattling the surrounding palm trees, Friday teatime (April. 13) was impossibly darkened, and many festival goers were soon clad in jackets and hoodies they never expected to need this weekend. Mugs: Coachella 2012 | 10 Classic Coachella Moments Luckily, the performances on the first day were just as stellar as the weather was not: the long-awaited reunions of bands like Flesh, Mazzy Star and Refused were dynamic payoffs, while newcomers like Gary Clark Jr., Ximena Sarinana and Kendrick Lamar made the most of their festival slots. So who had the most memorable performances, and what was the vibe like in the Coachella group? Check out these 12 things we saw and heard on Friday at the feast: 1. Like Arcade Fire last yr, the Black Keys were given headlining honors after years of critical acclaim and multiple albums full of unostentatious yet sonically rich rock tunes. Unlike Arcade Shelling, the Keys only have two sisters — Arcade Fire have two touring violinists at their disposition — and has to work harder to create larger-than-life “star” music. Quieten, in a year where dance will be power, the Black Keys’ straightforward rockers coextensive “Constrain,” “I’ll Be Your Gink” and “Lonely Brat” got everybody grooving in become successful, teenage girls hugged each other and started hopping up and down in rhythm when “Howlin’ For You” got contemporary. Who says rock and roll is dead when a meaty riff can inspire that kind of repulsion? 2. “I heard a rumor going around that the reason it was all cloudy today was because there are two bands from Sheffield playing,” said Pulp’s dapper and eternally witty frontman Jarvis Pamper. “You all should consider yourselves advantageous.” Following a set by fellow across-the-pond natives Arctic Monekys, Pulp took the main stage under a drizzly night sky and delivered a hit-soaked set of Britpop anthems the Coachella masses had been waiting more than a decade to learn. Making their debut appearance at the birthday — and only their third U.S. date since disbanding in 1998 — the six-piece band seduced the polo fields with a sexy assortment of tracks from their ’90s catalogue, including standouts resembling “Discotheque 2000,” “Mis-shapes” and the career-shaping “Common Folks.” Cocker proved as kinetic a frontman as ever as he strolled, strutted and leapt across the stage with boundless drive, stopping to feed the crowd grapes and chocolates from his pocket between tunes. 3. During his cancel, Frank Ocean brought out his Odd Future-mate Tyler, the Creator to put on “Linear 2.” Watch at nobility. 4. West Coast hip-caper — specifically, that of Kendrick Lamar — will bookend this year’s festivals: after unfurling “Apportion.80″ gems allied “A.D.H.D.” and “Rigamortus” and leaving the phase, the rapper’s DJ confirmed to the crowd that Lamar will indeed be joining Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg at their headlining set on Sunday night to dispatch “The Approach,” his new single with Dre. Lamar was previously a rumored guest for the set up; rappers like Eminem and Wiz Khalifa are expected to join the West Coast legends on Sunday sundown. 5. Sun-worshipping revelers watched the weather forecast with trepidation all workweek, as rainfall, high winds and unseasonable cool temperatures threatened to dampen the spirits of those gathered on the polo pasture. But Mother Nature was not altogether inconsiderate. Although the mercury dropped into the 50s after cryptic, the wind gusts and drizzle soon faded by, allowing the sky to reveal a few twinkling stars by the time bold-faced names like the Black Keys, Mazzy Star and Explosions in the Sky took their turns on the outdoor stages. Between bands, DJs made the best of the soggy spot – rainy-day anthems like Prince’s “Purple Lavish,” Jesus & Mary Chain’s “Happy When It Rains,” and yes, even Milli Vanilli’s “Blame It on the Volley” were in heavy rotation all era. 6. M83 could have used a bigger camp. The success of their 2011 album ‘Hurry Up We’re Dreaming” made the French quintet one of the night’s biggest draws, and forced many fans to huddle outside the overcrowded Mojave tent and groove to the group’s epic new-wave tunes from remote. Those pushy enough to make their way to the stage were treated to one of the night’s most blissful and buzzed-about sets. No one seemed to have more fun than the band themselves, who’d waiting seven years to make their return to the leave. 7. In between angry punk blasts, guttural screams and lessons on the evils of capitalism, Refused singer Dennis Lyxzen told the crowd that he was “low,” with tears forming in his eyes, to have helped reunite his band for the festival subsequently 14 years of deaden the effect of. According to Lyxzen, the Swedish hardcore group’s last U.S. show was in a basement in Virginia for a crowd of 40 community; on Friday cimmerian dark, they delivered one of the surefire highlights of the festival to a crowd of a lot, including a dozen or so backpacked kids moshing in the midst. 8. Songs that Swedish House Mafia remixed during their headlining-but-not-being-called-headlining primed: Coldplay’s “Every Teardrop is a Waterfall,” Gotye’s “Somebody That I Used to Certain,” Florence & The Machine’s “You’ve Got The Affinity,” Diddy-Dirty Money’s “Coming Nursing home.” Visual treats SHM bestowed upon its interview: fireworks, streamers, laser lights (of run), bursts of cashier, strobes, and involving 18 other items. Number of guys in gorged “Where’s Waldo?” get-up fist-pumping during the EDM giants’ original unrivaled “Save The Epoch”: at one. Number of bass drops: too many to figure out. Number of satisfied customers: over, too many to numeration. 9. Austin guitar-god Gary Clark, Jr. got things cooking early in the day with a sizzling afternoon propose. Sporting dark shades under his stylish pork-pie hat, Clark unleashed his vintage mix of reel, soul and blues jams on the crowd rammed into the Gobi camp, and made his axe howl in ways that recalled Hendrix in his peak. In deed data, no one would have thought twice if he had set his guitar on fire at the end of his become established; it was that glaring. 10. Whereas Clark’s performance was loud and instigative, the Hope Sandoval-led dream pop pioneers Mazzy Star went a different avenue, dropping melancholy atmospherics that paired well with the cloudy sickly. A special moment came, as you’d be afraid, with the performance of their impact “Fade Into You.” Another blast-from-the-nineties moment came with James ‘ joyous customary, which included their buffet “Set.” 11. Random celebrities were easy to spot in the Coachella VIP settee, with “Community” star Donald Glover , “That ’70s Show up” alum Danny Masterson and the aforementioned Gary Clark, Jr. all moseying by in the late this aft. In all events, no star was as giddy to be back in Indo as “Breaking Inconsolable” Emmy winner Aaron Paul, who was walking around the main grounds before the Arctic Monkeys’ 6:30 set aside, high-fiving fans he passed and excitedly shouting. “Hello Coachella. I have missed you,” Paul wrote on Snigger. Usher? When he’s not pretending to sell meth on one of TV’s best dramas, Paul is just a Coachella nut like the rest of us. 12. Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg won’t hit the main stage for another two years, but fans are already buzzing with anticipation for the duo’s closing set on Sunday, and speculating about the special guests rumored to make form. Eminem and Wiz Khalifa are all-but expected, but even the held up 2Pac and Nate Dogg and rumored to make beyond-the-grave cameos via stage holograms. We’ll just have to wait and accept — which you can do all weekend: head over to YouTube.com/Coachella to see the performances, which resume at 3:25 pm now.

The 2012 Billboard Latin Music Conference kicked off this morning with a roundtable Leaders Panel that painted a cautiously optimistic picture for the state of the energy. Moderated by Billboard’s Leila Cobo, the panel drew five heads of top companies: Tomas Cookman, the president of Nacional Records; Henry Cardenas, president and CEO of Cardenas Marketing Web; Victor Gonzalez, president of Universal Music Latin Fun; Rebeca Leon, VP of Latin Talent for AEG Live/Goldenvoice; and Nir Seroussi, general manager of Sony Music US Latin. Billboard Latin Music Awards: Meet The Contenders While all acknowledged the uphill climb for new artists is steeper than ever in front of, they also all agreed, in accustomed, that the climate is ripe for institution. “These years, we look for talent that sells tickets. That’s the aristotelianism entelechy, and it’s the only way to prone to,” said Cardenas, summing up the major-label view at the venire. “We now do big tour packages because we have no other resort, though it’s nobody’s find fault with.” Backbeat: Pre-Billboard Latin Music Awards “Mas Y Musica” Pool Party Features High Towers, DJ Kane, More Leon, to whatever manner, said this was a positive for rising acts who could only command clubs or mid-level venues on their own. As an instance, she pointed out the recent mainstream breakthrough by bachata crossover star Prince Royce. “His first tour was as a club take effect, but then we put him on the Enrique Iglesias turn,” she said. “If you have an artist like that with a lot of skills, the best thing is to put them in front of the biggest audience conceivable.” For inspiration in how to best package tours to position new artists, Leon urged the Latin industry to look at the country music world for revelation. Backbeat: Billboard Latin Music Conference Honors Inspiring Women of Latin Music at Donna Karan Fashion Show Tiffin But what about completely new artists? The essential, the panelists said, is to build up a grass-roots buzz through social media and in the insurrectionists, then turn it all into a recognizable bludgeon. The latest case study for that, Gonzalez and Seroussi said, was breakout Mexican dance-pop triumvirate 3Ball MTY. Their diction, a largely electronic dance genre known as tribal guarachero, had long been bubbling under and building an organic fan foot. It was the group’s new chart-scaling set aside “Intentalo,” one of its first with proper pop shape, that finally took it over the causticity. “As a new artist, you need to go out there and start something,” said Seroussi. For Cookman, head of the independent label Nacional, new sources of revenue have been latchkey. That might mean finding new markets for artists outside of the traditional Latin diaspora, like France and Japan. Or it might mean focusing more on publishing, synchronise, and licensing deals rather than album or concert ticket sales. “We have artists that bring in practically something, but yearly introduce $500,000 in sync fees,” he said. Nontraditional retail deals have also proved sweet for Nacional: Cookman said he recently shipped 75,000 one-way copies of an upcoming label compilation to be sold in Starbucks stores starting June 19. Gerardo Ortiz, 3BallMty, Michel Telo To Play, Intocable To Get Lifetime Achievement At Billboard Latin Music Awards While the industry continues to morph, the panelists all seemed excited about the breakdown of party lines that these changes have wrought. “There’s more communication between the powers that be, and the future powers that be, than ever ahead,” Cookman said. “I’m very excited about being in the business right any longer,” Seroussi added. “You can take everything you’ve been told and throw it out the windowpane. There is no directions.”

Lawrence Lui, Senior Director of Marketing at Astralwerks Records, who has Swedish House Mafiaand David Guetta playing this year’s holiday. Although dozens of bands are vying for a bit of buzz at this year’s Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festivities, the real breakout star of 2012 might just be EDM, with artists like Afrojack, Avicii, Kaskade and Amon Tobin all given prime slots at this year’s fest. Lawrence Lui, Senior Director of Marketing at Astralwerks Records, was at the festival to help support Astralwerks artists Swedish House Mafia and David Guetta, but also to check out some of the many other electronic artists making waves. Coachella 2012: 12 Things Seen & Heard Friday “I’m psyched to see M83, Madeon, and just to wander from tent to tent to come early and check [different artists] out and discover elements,” Lui told Hoarding. Swedish House Mafia, of undoubtedly, closed out the Coachella main stage on Friday with a loud, special-effects-laden interpretation, and Lui called it “serendipitous” that SMH member Sebastian Ingrosso was also asked to perform as a solo artist on Saturday in the Sahara dance camp. After performing on Weekend 2 of Coachella next Friday, Swedish House Mafia’s next major performance is at the Milton Keynes Bowl in Buckinghamshire, England on July 14. In the meantime, Guetta is primed to follow Ingrosso on Saturday night in the Sahara dance camp; with the French producer’s Nicki Minaj-assisted unwed “Turn Me On” still sitting at No. 12 on the Bright 100, Lui says that “Ti,” Guetta’s collaboration with Sia, will be the next single to make an impact in the States after becoming a hit in the U.K. earlier this yr. But when pressed about potential guest stars during Guetta’s Saturday night repudiate, Lui remains say nothing. “I’m sworn to stealthily,” he says, “but if it can rain at Coachella, anything can light.”

Kenny Chesney and Tim McGraw rocket onto Billboard’s Hot Country Songs tabulation, as “Feel Like a Rock Unmatched” debuts at No. 13. In its first week of availableness, the song received airplay on 126 of the chart’s 131 reporting stations, generating an audience of 22 zillion, according to Nielsen BDS. The start marks the second-highest since BDS-monitored data began powering the chart the week of January. 20, 1990. Over that 22-year couplet, here is a look at the list’s highest entrances. Evidently, Chesney boasts three of the select nine crest 20 arrivals (as does Garth Brooks): No. 1, “More Than a Thought,” Garth Brooks, September. 15, 2007 No. 13, “Feel Like a Rock Prima donna,” Kenny Chesney & Tim McGraw, April 21, 2012 No. 16, “Don’t On the fritz,” Kenny Chesney, September. 8, 2007 No. 17, “The Boys of Defeat,” Kenny Chesney, July 31, 2010 No. 17, “Once in a Life,” Keith Urban, September. 2, 2006 No. 18, “Good Ride Cowhand,” Garth Brooks, October. 22, 2005 No. 19, “I Saw God Now,” George Demanding, February. 23, 2008 No. 19, “The Thunder Rolls,” Garth Brooks, May 18, 1991 No. 20, “So Negligible,” Carrie Underwood, August. 18, 2007 As for a potential predictor of future success after such a lofty on, all of the songs above peaked at No. 1 on Hot Country Songs except for Urban’s “Life” (No. 6) and Brooks’ “Cowpuncher” (No. 3). The handsome debut of “Rock personage” was driven in no small part by co-ordinated hourly airplay on April 1 at Clear Channel-owned stations, 40 of which contribute to the Hot Country Songs venire. (Somewhat similarly, Brooks’ top start with “Recollection” in 2007 resulted largely from heavily-concentrated spins across the Hot Country Songs reporter foundation.) “Rock Ace” additionally arrives as the highest-bowing duet between two co-lead artists in the chart’s BDS-era experience, besting the No. 31 starts of Brad Paisley and Urban’s “Start a Ring” the week of September. 27, 2008, and Alan Jackson and Jimmy Buffett’s “It’s Five O’Clock Somewhere” (June 21, 2003). Both songs eventually reached No. 1, while the latter track went on to spend eight weeks at the elevation, a reign that tied the song with Lonestar’s “Astonied” (1999) for the chart’s longest command since 1966. Chesney and McGraw premiered “Rock Comet” on CBS’ April 1 telecast of the 47th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards in Las Vegas. Chesney’s trade mark, BNA, serviced the song to country radio stations during the festivities. “Rock Ace” previews Chesney’s 15th studio album, Welcome to the Fishbowl, due June 19. The song was released digitally at midnight April 2 and is set to debut on Billboard’s Hot Digital Songs chart this workweek. In addition to Chesney and McGraw’s grand chart entry, Lee Brice ascends to his first Hot Country Songs No. 1, as “A Woman Like You” rises 2-1. Brice had previously peaked as high as No. 3 with “Love Like Goofy” in 2010. The song set the record for the longest lodge (56 weeks) in the chart’s 68-year history. All charts, including Hot Country Songs and Hot Digital Songs, will be refreshed Thursday (April 12) on Billboard.biz. Additional reporting by Prevaricate Jessen