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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 Continue reading

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 Continue reading

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 Continue reading

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 Continue reading

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 Continue reading

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 Continue reading

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 Continue reading

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 Continue reading

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 Continue reading

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After performing to a crowd of zillions, which included stage diving by frontman Aaron Bruno and a surprise visit from Macy Grey, who added her vocal luster Continue reading

Entertainment mogul Emilio Estefan, Univision Radio President José Valle and Target VP of entertainment John Butcher are among the top executives already confirmed as speakers for the 2012 Billboard Continue reading

Louisiana has long popularized the tax breaks it supplies film and television shows, but at Saturday’s annual Only in Louisiana brunch, they added a message more directly targeted at Continue reading

Newcomer Azealia Banks, who signed to Universal Music in January, is being represented by Lady Gaga’s manager Troy Carter.

The rapper’s debut album for Interscope, Broke With Expensive Continue reading

Madonna’s new album is finished and will be released in Adjoin 2012 on Interscope Records, the label and Live Nation Entertainment announced on Thursday dayspring. The trade, which has been rumored Continue reading

Aloof 10 months after giving birth to twins Moroccan and Monroe, a soulful and scanty (“30 lbs [less] on Jenny Craig,” according to her rep) Mariah Carey returned to Continue reading

The pre- Billboard Latin Music Conference introduced artists from around the world who took turns performing at the pool side stage during the “Mas y Mas Música” showcase at Continue reading

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — When Lady Gaga launches her hotly awaited “Born This Way Ballock” world tour Friday on what is expected to be an elaborate castle-like stage-manage, Continue reading

Carly Simon will receive the ASCAP Founders Award during the performing rights organization’s 29th annual Pop Music Awards on April 18.

Backbeat: ASCAP Throbbing & Soul’s Grammy Brunch Continue reading

TuneUp Recognizes Music, But Also Cleans Up Your Music Gleaning

Apparently the market for music identification apps isn’t too crowded for new contender. TuneUp Media has released a Continue reading

Screen shot from Facebook’s 188-page Securities Exchange Commission IPO filing.

Reading through Facebook’s IPO filing is like an episode of “This Is Your Pungency.” This is where you Continue reading

MUNICH – German collection society GEMA has adjusted tariffs for outdoor music concerts starting in 2013. Smaller events will benefit from the adjustment while larger events will have to Continue reading

A judge has granted a motion to dismiss concert promoter AEG Live from a wrongful-death lawsuit filed by Michael Jackson’s padre.

City News Service says the judge agreed Continue reading

Singer/songwriter and former Soul Coughing frontman Mike Doughty is enjoying the present by looking into the past and crafting his own to be to come. He released a book Continue reading

Jeff Bronikowski, who less than a year ago left Yahoo Music for AOL Music, has in turn left for a newly created position at the Echo Snuggle, according to Continue reading

Vevo may be taking its music video service to Facebook, with preliminary talks between the companies signalling what may be the beginning of the end for Vevo’s current partnership Continue reading

Walt Disney Pictures has wrangled Jack White to compose the score against “The Lone Ranger.”

The studio announced Tuesday that the Grammy-winning rocker will decry, produce and perform Continue reading

If the consortium led by Sony Corporation. of America gets approval to acquire EMI Music Publishing, it would degrade 326 positions over two years to reach $70 million in Continue reading

Accurate, Jay-Z brought out Beyonce at Coachella in 2010, and Kanye West gave festival goers his ballerina-assisted best with Bon Iver last yr. But how many hip-hop headliners could Continue reading

The six artists at the Billboard Latin SXSW Vitrine, who came to Austin from Colombia, Venezuela, Spain, Mexico and Miami, were each met at the Soho Lounge Wednesday night Continue reading

Five precious guitars owned by Tom Petty that were stolen last week were returned to their rightful owner Tuesday. According to the Associated Prod, Culver City police arrested a Continue reading

Johnny Depp dropped acting for a night and joined Marilyn Manson onstage Wednesday, grabbing a bright yellow guitar and black cowboy hat for a performance of “Sweet Dreams” at Continue reading

Dozens of journalists from around the country flew to Telemundo Studios in Miami to the set of morning show Levántate (Awake!) for the live announcement of the finalists to Continue reading

Vevo Racked Up 748 Million Views in September

– Music video network Vevo again ranks at #2 on comScore’s list of top U.S. online video properties according to Continue reading

Attorneys for country duo Sugarland said concertgoers were at least partly to blame for injuries suffered in a stage go to pieces, drawing a sharp reaction from fans Tuesday Continue reading

As widely hoped-for, the European Commission’s investigation into Universal’s proposed acquisition of EMI’s recorded-music division is to enter a provisional, more in-depth aspect, it has been confirmed.

The Continue reading

Wiz Khalifa at Austin’s Club De Ville at Mountain Dew’s Greeln Label Sound’s SXSW vitrine. (Photograph: Jessica Lehrman)

In a week filled with surprise guests, the unannounced lineup Continue reading

It was a veritable industry gathering at the second day of taping for Colombian star Juanes’ MTV Unplugged set at Miami Beach’s New World Core. Accompanied by an acoustic Continue reading

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Keith Urban was slyly dropping hints about the surprises he had in store at the All For The Hall benefit concert this workweek, but little Continue reading

The story behind Alabama Shakes’ sudden rise to band-most-likely-to has almost become urban epic: a blog post and some hot performances during last October’s CMJ Music Marathon sparked a Continue reading

Victory Lap: Musician Bernard Pantryman, Lord Tim Clement-Jones, UK Music Chairman Andy Heathland, singer Martina Topley-Shuttlecock, UK Music CEO Jo Dipple and MU General Secretary John Smith at a Continue reading

Nicki Minaj scores her second No. 1 album on the Hoarding 200 as “Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded” debuts atop the list with 253,000 copies sold, according to Nielsen SoundScan. Continue reading

Ronnie Wood says the Rolling Stones will meet in a recording studio later this month “to just throw some ideas back.”

The guitarist for the legendary rock group Continue reading

A New Zealand judge has ruled that law enforcement’s efforts to seize some $200 million in assets from Megaupload is “null and put aside,” the result of a procedural Continue reading

Late last night-time, the New York Times published an blurb, citing leaked documents, that stated if the consortium led by Sony Corporation. of America gets approval to acquire EMI Continue reading

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Tim McGraw has competed 46 times in the beat 10 on Country Songs, and nearly made it a two-fer this workweek, as his current solo especial Continue reading

Epic Records Chairman/CEO L.A. Reid announced today that Benny Pough would assume the role of Executive Vice Prexy, Urban Music at Larger-than-life.

Pough previously worked for Motown and Continue reading

Universal Publishing Production Music’s Killer Tracks announced yesterday the beginning of its Killer Tracks Artist Series, which will be releasing a number of original EPs geared toward music licensing Continue reading

Lately there’s been speculation that Britney Spears is in talks to judge the sophomore season of Fox’s “X Particular,” but the singer is finally close to closing a $15 Continue reading

YouTube’s roll-out of original content is picking up steamer.

Now, the Google-owned company announced a slew of exclusive programs featuring such music stars as Cee Lo Nave, Regina Continue reading

Layoffs took place in the promotion department of Warner Music’s labels tod, sources tell Billboard.biz. People let go include Reprise Senior Vice President of Promotion Mike Rittberg, Warner SVP Continue reading

Primary Wave Music is heading abroad.

The publishing, marketing and talent management company announced Thursday it is expanding from offices in New York and Los Angeles and opening Continue reading

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In yet another surprise during a week of head-spinning rumors and negotiations, Citigroup this morning announced the completion of the sale of EMI’s recorded-music operation to Vivendi/Universal Music Squad, Continue reading

In a major settlement between the music industry trade associations for record labels, music publishers and digital music providers, the Copyright Royalty Timber, is expected to maintain the mechanical Continue reading

The line up of international acts performing at the Billboard Latin showcase Cortege 14 at SXSW exemplifies the style-shifting nature of current Latin music. Grammy-nominated art punk rockers La Continue reading

Nicki Minaj will be the latest pop star to hit the fragrance chain store, according to WWD.

The “Beez in the Entrap” rapper will debut her scene this Continue reading

Collector’s Considerations: Platinum League CEO William Preservationist (second from fittingly) with Mindless Front (from socialistic) Ray Flash, Child, Princeton and Roc Roya. (pic: Jesse Bad blood)

Mindless Savoir-faire, Continue reading

With video footage of Celia Cruz and Johnny Pacheco playacting “Quimbara” as a backdrop and N’Klabe crisply pouring faulty 1980′s classics such as “Lluvia” on the 19th floor of Continue reading

Watch for Christian rockers Casting Crowns’ “Come to the Mercifully” to possibly debut at No. 1 on the Hoarding 200 albums chart next workweek, with possibly 95,000-110,000 sold by Continue reading

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Twitter Music Mode:

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Congrats to our old pal Mike Rittberg — whom we first met when he worked with Cheryl Valentine at Metal Blade way back in the heyday — on his Continue reading

MIAMI — Although ominous gray clouds hung low and temperatures reached into the luxurious 80s, the red carpet scene at the Latin Billboard Awards was as full of colorful Continue reading

NEW YORK (AP) – Best Buy Co. CEO Brian Dunn has resigned from the nation’s largestconsumer electronics retailer, a company that has been struggling to rebound amid growing competition Continue reading

Regional Mexican singer/songwriter Regulo Caro ( @ReguloCaro) unveiled his new music during the release party for his second album Amor En Tiempos De Guerra (Del Records/Sony) at the Conga Continue reading

R&B singer Monica is heading for her fifth straight ascend 10 album, as New Life is aiming to sell all round 60,000 by week’s end on Sunday, April 15, Continue reading

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Are investors excited about Madonna’s upcoming visit? Or are they increasingly convinced the concert business has left its troubles butt? Continue reading

EMI has lost its appeal in an Australian court ruling that found Men at Work’s 1980s discern “Down Inferior to” was lifted from a campfire folk bother.

Last Continue reading

Soundgarden’s first new song in 15 age, “Live to Get ahead,” will be available as a free download beginning April 17 on iTunes as part of the promotion of Continue reading

R onnie Wood recently caused a stir when the music press quoted him as saying the Rolling Stones were preparing to hit the recording studio again later this month, Continue reading

Alabama Shakes live at Austin City Limits during SXSW where the band’s buzz sky-rocketed.

Adele’s “21″ (XL Recordings) is back at the top of the U.K. album plot, Continue reading

Without the aid so far of radio or an all-out promotional rebuff, Jason Mraz blasts onto the Billboard Sharp 100 at No. 8 with “I Won’t Deliver,” courtesy of Continue reading

From sinistral: Musicians Craig Morgan, Blake Shelton and TV personality Lee Lakosky participate in the NRA Country ACM Celebrity Shoot Hosted By Blake Shelton at the Desert Hills Shooting Continue reading

The RIAA today announced the promotions of two executives to the rank of executive vice president from the senior vice presidential smooth out. Michele Ballantyne steps into the role Continue reading

How Jamaica’s Sizzla Kalongi can sing righteous lyrics decrying social and political injustice on his new album The Chan” (out on Afro swarm, a subsidiary of the Munich-based Kosmo Continue reading

Ever since Facebook announced it would be filing for an IPO February. 1, speculation has been widespread as to when the company would officially go mr. With reports stating Continue reading

As Calvin Harris’ career has taken in error, so have the fortunes of electronic dance music management company Three Six Zero Clique. Founded in 2007 by Mark Gillespie, a Continue reading

The normally press-shy David “Boche” Viecelli, president of powerhouse indie touring agency Billions, made a rare speaking appearance at Boston’s Rethink Music Conference on Tuesday to talk the perils Continue reading

Hi, Austin. We have what you’re looking as a replacement for. Lionel Richie, whose timeless hits encompass “Easy and “Endless Idolize,” will headline Billboard’s annual showcase at South by Continue reading

Vivendi’s Universal Music Group today formally requested European Union regulators’ approval to buy EMI’s recorded-music frontier. An initial deadline of Parade 23 was set for a ruling on the Continue reading

SAN FRANCISCO — Apple’s new iPad modelling, with a sharper screen and a faster processor, will go on sale in the U.S. and six other countries next Friday, the Continue reading

NEW YORK (AP) — A federal appeals court reinstated a copyright case against YouTube on Thursday, finding that a jury could conclude that the online video service knew it Continue reading

Howard Stern’s hopes for a $300 million payday from Sirius XM Radio Inc. have been dashed by a infer. His show’s Twitter feed said the shock jock was “really Continue reading

Universal Music Latin Entertainment president Victor Gonzalez sat down at the Billboard Latin Music Conference to talk about UMLE act Belanova’s partnership with Coca-Cola in the build up to Continue reading

Arwen Hunting ( ATC Management out of London) introduced us to her confederate, We Are Augustines, and posed for a photo with us.

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Ne-Yo, with girlfriend Monyetta, at his fourth annual Midnight Brunch

at Hollywood’s Supper Fellowship. (Picture: Arnold Turner)

News of Whitney Houston’s death broke just hours before Ne-Yo’s Continue reading

The first panel of the Latin Billboard Music Conference’s second lifetime, dubbed “Do It Yourself,” made a strong case for going excluding, even though major labels remain a driving Continue reading

With two more debuts this workweek, the cast of Fox’s “Schadenfreude” ups its total of career charted songs on the Billboard Frying 100 to a milestone 200 titles. Surprisingly, Continue reading

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Stevie Puzzle, Metallica, Neil Brood & Crazy Sawhorse, Jack White and the Foo Fighters lead the lineup for the fifth annual Outside Lands Music & Continue reading

Executives from bilingual cable network mun2 unveiled a new slate of reality programming that includes shows about regional Mexican crooner Larry Hernandez, singer Jenni Rivera’s girl, Chiquis Rivera, and Continue reading

Mexican rock band Maná, the biggest-selling and touring Latin rock set, last year tied Britney Spears with eight sold-out shows at Los Angeles’ Staples Essence, but this week return Continue reading

After declaring bankruptcy along with her group TLC in the mid-’90s, Tionne “T-Boz” Watkins has filed for Chapter 13 for the second time this year after defaulting on mortgages Continue reading

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Richard Wagstaff Clark is born in Bronxville, N.Y. His father was a salesman and, subsequent, the manager of a radio station in Utica, N.Y. Continue reading

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The Walkmen previewed tracks from upcoming album Utopia (out June 5 on Fat Possum/Bella Conjoining) at a private concert held Wednesday night at New York’s Continue reading

Fans were rocking as The Barbarian Group and Tumblr hosted the biggest rock party of SXSWi at local Austin favorites Club Deville and Mohawk Monday round-the-clock. The venues came Continue reading

Rascal Flatts themselves, (L-R) Gary LeVox, Jay DeMarcus, and Joe Don Rooney attend the ‘Changed’ movie premiere in Times Sqaure. (Getty Appearances)

Superstar country music trio Rascal Flatts, Continue reading

NEW YORK (AP) – Long gone, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts professed their love for ruined ‘n’ register. It’s time to see if the feeling runs both ways. Continue reading

Ryan Tedder (communistic) of One Republic and Sebastian Ingrosso of Swedish House Mafia performed their performance “Happening” at Coachella on Saturday night.  (Photograph: Catie Laffoon)

Songwriter Ryan Tedder Continue reading

The Sydney Entertainment Inwardness, for many years the biggest arena in Australia’s largest mart, is facing the wrecking testis.

The New South Wales Premier Barry O’Farrell today confirmed Continue reading

The reshaping of the Universal Music Group continues. With executives like Motown president Sylvia Rhone turning down an offer from the company to run a to-be-created rights-management company and Continue reading

Overkill bassist DD Verni (second from hand) throws the horns in commend, backed before (from radical) Overkill singer Bobby “Blitzkrieg” Ellsworth, eOne Music VP of metal Scott Givens and Continue reading

Kobalt Music Group continues moving forward with their planned restructuring and distension, as today Founder/CEO Willard Ahdritz ( No. 88 in Billboard’s Turn 100) announced that Pete Escape from, Continue reading

Sleeper Ingredient – Alex Kandel

We found Alex Kandel, vocalist for Bowling Green-based Sleeper Attorney, refueling with a coconut water and resting on a couch in the VIP Continue reading

The launch party for music creation product Zya was hard to miss Monday night at SXSW. The event took up the entirety of the Six Lounge at 4th Street Continue reading

Google Inc. plans to split its amass 2-representing-1 to preserve its leadership’s control over the company and maintain its long-term distinct.

The online search leader said Thursday that Continue reading

A screenshot of Warner/Chappel Production Music’s new website showing some of the music catalogs housed thither.

Warner/Chappell Music, the global music publishing arm of Warner Music Group Corporation., Continue reading

Veteran media industry executive Cristina Schwarz has been named VP of programming and production for Univision Cable Networks. Schwarz will be based out of Miami, supervising programming and production Continue reading

A New York judge Friday ordered pop star Prince to give someone a bribe $3.95 million to a perfume maker for failing to promote the 3121 line of scents. Continue reading

This year’s Coachella Valley Music & Arts Anniversary, to be held consecutive weekends on April 13-15 and April 20-22 at Empire Polo Field in Indio, Kalif., has sold out Continue reading

The Tupac Shakur “holograph” used onstage at Coachella Valley Humanities & Music Festival over the weekend isn’t a novelty in just the live music point. It’s also a rarity Continue reading

According to multiple sources, the European Commission is expected to announce Thursday its approval of the purchase of EMI Music Publishing by the Sony  Corporation. of America-led pool. The Continue reading

Lil Wayne has become synonymous with the Young Money/Cash Money phenomenon that has swept up names such as Drake, Nicki Minaj, Mystikal and Busta Rhymes, and the rapper isn’t Continue reading

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After weeks of relatively few new major album releases, Tuesday (January. 24) brought a bevy of titles to market that are aiming for the top of next week’s Hoarding Continue reading

What Becomes A Legend Uttermost (from leftfield): Our Lady Peace’s bassist Duncan Coutts, frontman Raine Maida, boxing legend George Chuvalo, OLP manager Eric Lawrence, guitarist Steve Mazur, drummer Jeremy Continue reading

Facebook’s Listen Clit, Timeline Challenge Developers and Artists

– Facebook’s expansion of its Timeline layout in April and the debut this week of its Listen button are presenting Continue reading

Universal Music Group is planning to sell three of its music-publishing catalogs to help finance its acquisition of EMI’s recorded-music segment, a source told Billboard.biz. The news was first Continue reading

Lionel Richie (truthful) with Kenny Chesney performing together at the “ACM Presents: Lionel Richie & Friends together,” which aired on CBS this past Friday.

Lionel Richie might be Continue reading

The freshly expanded Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros did something Thursday they have never wired: Perform their upcoming Community Records/Vagrant album Here start to extermination.

The 11-piece Continue reading

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Universal Music Group has won the qualified support of two North American artists’ unions for its proposed $1.9 billion acquisition of the recorded music division Continue reading

This week’s Rethink Music conference kicked off with a weekend Hackathon, where participants built and presented 25 music “hacks,” or hastily-created apps, at Microsoft’s New England Research and Development Continue reading

For the second yr, the Billboard Latin Music Marketing Awards will recognize the growing importance of consumer brands and marketers in the promotion and marketing of Latin music at Continue reading

This week on the Hoarding 200, One Direction makes history as the first U.K. group to bow at No. 1 with a debut album as “Up All Round-the-clock” starts Continue reading

Global management company IMG Artists has named Jerry Inzerillo its new President and CEO, effective April 16. Formerly head of Kerzner Entertainment Group and founding president of what has Continue reading

Companies that stand to benefit the most from music discovery are creating the technologies to connect Spotify listeners with their music. Record labels created or backed all 12 of Continue reading

How ironic that a song about something as old-fashioned as a payphone sets a digital download release.

With digital sales of 493,000, according to Nielsen SoundScan, Seclude 5′s Continue reading

Mexican-American diva Jenni Rivera – songbird, songwriter, player, auteur, reality TV supernova, radio show entertainer, television maker, fashion artist, compulsive tweeter and future maker – may be the “most Continue reading

Universal Music Group is once-again ramping up its digital operations with the promotion of Francis Keeling to the role of global head of digital dealing.

Effective as soon Continue reading

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Some of the key figures weren’t thither, but those who were present at the 27th annual Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony on Saturday Continue reading

During Live Nation Canada chairman Riley O’Connor’s induction into the Canadian Music Industry Hall of Glory – at the 30th annual Canadian Music & Broadcast Industry Awards and Gala Continue reading

Music from Camila, Chino y Nacho, Enrique Iglesias, Don Omar, Pitbull and Paulina Rubio, among others, make up some of the plug, branding and sponsorship campaigns up for honors Continue reading

VEVO is heading further down the social scheme, with new Facebook integrations, iTunes Complementary, and collaborations with The Echo Nest transforming the company from a static service delivering music Continue reading

Nicolas Jaar performing at the Music Hall of Williamsburg on February. 3 (Pic: Alexey Yurenev)

It’s been a whirlwind two months for the electronic musician Nicolas Jaar. Backstage Continue reading

Syco Relief, Simon Cowell’s joint venture with Sony Music Divertissement, has promoted COO Charles Garland to the role of worldwide CEO with immediate intention.

The new role adds Continue reading

The diversity of the faith-based music community was recognized today as nominees were announced for the 43rd annual Gospel Music Association Dove Awards.

Southern gospel singer Jason Crabb Continue reading

Law firm Loeb & Loeb LLP announced today that it hired John P. Strohm as a senior counsel of their Music Industry Practice out of their Nashville firm. Continue reading

Larry Wanagas, who launched Bumstead Productions back in 1979 and received this year’s Music Managers’ Forum’s Honor Roll recognizing outstanding achievements and excellence in Canadian and international artist board Continue reading

German pop singer Oceana is set to receive a major sales boost this summer when her ado “Endless Summertime” is placed in front of a potential global audience of Continue reading

The inaccurately-titled Tupac Holograph (a.k.a. the “Holopac”) may not be going on a tour anytime lickety-split, at least according to Dr. Dre who spoke last night backstage at Coachella Continue reading

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2. First Attend: Rufus Wainwright, ‘Out Of The Prepared’

3. First Obey: Norah Jones, Continue reading

Madonna scores her eighth No. 1 album on the Hoarding 200 chart with the debut of her “MDNA,” while Lionel Richie’s all-star country collaborations covers album “Tuskegee” bows in Continue reading

Left-wing, film marketing executive Jennifer Bedwell, “Searching for Sugar Handcuff” director Malek Bendjelloul, Rodriguez and his girlfriend Bonnie being photographed by Billboard’s Phil Gallo (front).

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Beyonce is the biggest gainer on this week’s Billboard Sexually transmitted 50 sea-chart, making a massive jump from No. 49 to claim the No. 17 spot after a frenzy Continue reading

The hologram of Tupac Shakur that appeared alongside Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg during their headlining set at Coachella on Sunday cimmerian dark (April. 15) has provoked mixed reactions, Continue reading

RTL Group said Thursday that it has promoted Cecile Frot-Coutaz to CEO of its FremantleMedia production arm, effective July 1.

Currently CEO of FremantleMedia North America, she will Continue reading

Singer Jessie J (gist) receives a plaque from LAVA Records President/CEO Jason Flom (real) at ELLE’s in Women Music 2012 at event in L.A. for selling mainly 12 million Continue reading

The 57th Ivor Novello Awards nominations have been announced and, as expected, British vocal powerhouse Adele heads the gather together.

The awards, regarded as the most important awards Continue reading

Online video is the new MTV, which makes Rio Caraeff the head of the world’s most important video transfer. Caraeff is president/CEO of Vevo, the 2-year-old joint venture between Continue reading

Why Concert Listing Sites Matter In Today and Tomorrow’s Outlet

– There are far more ways to discover concerts than existed just a few years past. But are Continue reading

Joey Ramone in 1977  (Phot: BMG / Janet Macoska)

BERLIN – BMG today announced the worldwide release of a posthumous solo album from former Ramones frontman Joey Ramone, Continue reading

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Jenni Rivera, one of the most prolific entertainers in the Hispanic entertainment toil, will sit down for an exclusive one-on-one Q&A during the upcoming Billboard Latin Music Forum & Continue reading

Universal Music Group Chairman and CEO Lucian Grainge announced today that Zach Horowitz would be moving from his position as President and Chief Operating Officer at UMG to become Continue reading

Finalists for this year’s Billboard Latin Music Awards, presented by State Delegate, have all had a major impact throughout the Latin music dynamism, displaying unique qualities and strengths in Continue reading

Kevin Lyman still employs an “old-coach” method when it comes to picking bands for the Vans Warped Journey.

“I stand outside the gate and watch to see what Continue reading

Lil Wayne filming a Mountain Dew spot onstage at South by Southwest on

Thursday round-the-clock (Pic: Karen Polished/@teamDEWeezy)

AUSTIN — Lil Wayne was the headliner of one Continue reading

At Hill Country Barbeque Peddle, the down-home restaurant, and the showcase club Hill Country Last, in Manhattan’s Flatiron neighbourhood, fans come for the food as well as the music. Continue reading

Music tech gatherings abounded in Austin Tuesday evening as SXSW’s interactive conference over, and the music attendees arrived in greater numbers. Billboard.biz missed the SXSW Music Tech Meet-Up at Continue reading

The owners of Grimey’s New and Pre-Loved Music, Doyle Davis (communistic) and Mike Grimes, take a quick break in the parking lot behind the store that services as a Continue reading

Vevo and MTV have gotten back well-organized, signing a deal that allows MTV to license Vevo’s music videos again across all their websites after a dispute caused Vevo to Continue reading

Target’s John Butcher with Emilio Estefan at the Billboard Latin Music Conference on Wednesday (Picture: Arnold Turner)

Target Corporation has partnered with entertainment mogul Emilio Estefan in a Continue reading

cheer. becomes the first rock band in more than a decade to send a debut Billboard Burning 100 hit to No. 1, as “We Are Minor,” featuring Janelle Monae, Continue reading

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Music City cleaned up at the Grammys. Its artists have topped the charts in multiple genres over the last few age. It’s increasingly the destination for Continue reading

The Paul Williams documentary will receive a theatrical release in June from Abramorama, the company that distributed “Pearl Jam Xx,” “Incus!” and “Neil Young Trunk Sight,” director Stephen Kessler Continue reading

Lionel Richie’s “Tuskegee” album rises to No. 1 on the Hoarding 200 in its third week on the draft, selling 129,000 copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan (up 35%). The Continue reading

Diddy is 2012′s top-earning hip-hop hotshot, according to Forbes.

The artist born Sean Combs is good $550 trillion, according to the arsenal, which includes his stakes in Ciroc Continue reading

Gloria Estefan will receive recognition for her philanthropic work and Emmanuel will be given a career achievement honor at the 2011 Billboard Latin Music Awards in Miami on April Continue reading

Jay Z rocking the mic and the crowd at Austin City Limits on Monday dusk (Photograph: Brandon Fuller)

Jay-Z’s concert at Austin City Limits on Monday night was Continue reading

Universal Music Group today announced that Rand Levin would be assuming the role of senior vice prexy, business and legal affairs for UMG. Levin will be reporting to executive Continue reading

Warner Music Group today announced that two key employees would receive promotions in an effort to strengthen its recorded music arm and digital development in Europe, the Middle East Continue reading

From from their buzzed-about appearances at SXSW, British band Dry the River (@DryTheRiver) made their second appearance at the Bowery Ballroom on Adjoin 23. After creating a buzz in Continue reading

Julia Savoca has been named the Senior Vice President of Sales at Epic Records tod, in another executive-level announcement for the L.A. Reid-helmed record earmark. In the past month Continue reading

Spotify and Coca-Cola are teaming up for a global partnership that will include a Spotify app, a Facebook integration and a 2013 marketing manoeuvres, among other elements. “This is Continue reading

What If Facebook And Vevo Really Did Get Unitedly?

Facebook and Vevo are reported to be in early talks to move Vevo’s catalog of popular music videos and Continue reading

RCA Records’ ASAP Rocky was just a few songs into his headlining set at New York’s The Fillmore at Irving Plaza on Wednesday night when he asked the sold-out Continue reading

Puerto Rican radio programmer Pedro Arroyo, a salsa musician and lover who founded “El Día Nacional de la Zalsa” (National Salsa Epoch), a massive annual concert dedicated to the Continue reading

Vevo has opened for business in Australia and New Zealand.

The on-demand music service launched here Monday, through a partnership with locally-based MCM Media, a leading producer of Continue reading

Evan Lamberg has been named president of Universal Music Publishing Group North America, the company announced now. The move is part of a leadership restructuring at the circle, which Continue reading

Eric Levin is a co-founder of Record Store Period (RSD), owner of Atlanta’s Criminal Records and head of the Alliance of Independent Media Stores. Though this year he’s scaled Continue reading

Good Friday just got a little more G.O.OVERDOSE, as Kanye West’s G.O.O.D. Music label will release a new separated, “Humaneness,” on Friday, April 6. The track will presumably preview Continue reading

It’s a transitional time for Vevo, as the No. 1 most-watched YouTube course (and No. 3 most-watched U.S. video platform on the net, according to Comscore) prepares to host Continue reading

Line-up for Spain’s 2012 Festival Internacional Benicassim featuring headliner Bob Dylan

Jamaican reggae artist Sizzla Kalongi had three April concerts in Spain canceled under intense pressure from gay Continue reading

Saturday is official Record Store Period, which means it’s almost time to implement your H2BB (home-to-business bike) to purchase vinyl music, if you’re the transcribe, as even relatively young Continue reading

French music streaming service Deezer is debuting in Canada, Australia and New Zealand, marking the company’s first forays into those regions in the out of sight. In days, Deezer Continue reading

Vevo Moves Closer To Facebook, But Won’t Jump Anyhow

Starting Step 9, Vevo users can log into the service using only Facebook. News of the change was sent Continue reading

NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. government filed an antitrust lawsuit against Apple Inc. and book publishers Wednesday, saying the publishers conspired with Apple to raise retail electronic-book prices Continue reading

It’s been as good as 25 years since Nine Inch Nails’ debut Pretty Hate Machine was released, but even with millions of albums sold over the course of an Continue reading

“I was at the very first Farm Aid when I was a juvenile,” said Jakob Dylan midway through a private performance in Manhattan, playing an intimate benefit for the Continue reading

The 2012 Billboard Latin Music Awards are right around the tree, and more artists are being added the closer it gets. The latest round of announced performers includes Gerardo Continue reading

The end of the first day of the Billboard Latin Music Conference closed out the afternoon’s focus on vending, and the message was fresh: artists need brands these days Continue reading

Major label-owned subscription platform Songl has brought in a new boss ahead of a full launch Down Under in the first one-half.

Songl is operated by Digital Music Continue reading

Christian singer Jason Crabb won two of the most prominent awards for male artists at the 43rd annual Dove Awards held for the second straight year in Atlanta. Continue reading

Country Radio Seminar attendees had a lot of choices for music on Thursday, from Alan Jackson at the Capitol Nashville luncheon to the Sony/BMG General Jackson cruise in the Continue reading

The Bob Marley objective “Marley” will stream on Facebook simultaneously during its theatrical orifice, a signal that social media may also play a role in shifting movie release windows. Continue reading

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Have something on your mind that you want to share with Billboard readers around the life? Write in now to Continue reading

LONDON (AP) — Former Bee Gee Robin Gibb is in a coma after contracting pneumonia, a statement on his official website said Saturday.

The report, which confirmed media Continue reading

Chris Ethridge, the bass player who lent his musicianship and songwriting to the Flying Burrito Brothers, the International Submarine Band and others, has died at 65, Rolling Stone reports. Continue reading

The 81 year-old German composer, orchestra chief and conductor Claus Ogermann will be awarded with the German ECHO Jazz Lifetime Achievement Prize 2012. He worked with Frank Sinatra, Antonio Continue reading

Lady Gaga’s army of little monsters continues to become more pleasing to mature, as the pop phenom notched a record smashing 20 million followers on Warble.

The singer Continue reading

The cast of ROMA! (from fist): Veracity Murder, Robert Smith, Jonathan Stahl, Juan Ayala, Jamie Clayton, percussionist Stephanie Jalove, keyboardist Flutura Bardhi, bassist Kayci Rothweiler, Audrey Kovar and guitarist Continue reading

1. Tuesday’s taping was the third of the 38th flavour, the first two being the Civil Wars and Radiohead. The Shins will tape a show on Slog 17. During Continue reading

Fed up with “reunion lies” and looking to avoid awkward situations with ex-bandmates, Axl Rose has decided to not attend the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony Continue reading

BEVERLY HILLS, Kaliph.–Wing, before Spotify CEO Daniel Ek did a keynote interview for the entertainment legal community at the Beverly Hills Hotel tod, he predicted that income from his Continue reading

Guest attend the circus-themed EMI Grammy afterparty at The Capitol Tower in L.A. on Febr 12  (Photo by Mark Sullivan/Getty Photographs)

Back in the epoch, record labels used Continue reading

The first recorded fruit from this year’s Beach Boys 50th anniversary reunion is coming May 1.

A newly recorded version of the group’s 1968 collision “Do It Anon” Continue reading

When “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon” headed to the University of North Carolina for special taping on Tuesday (April. 24), the show received a very major, powerful visitor: President Continue reading

The three broad daylight 2012 ASCAP Expo kicked off in Los Angeles on Thursday as an array of eager songwriters – novitiate, up and forthcoming, and naturalized – filed Continue reading

The astronomical global success of Michel Teló, a Brazilian country crooner, is an example of the diverse new talents emerging from Brazil’s thriving pop scene and the multitude of Continue reading

Mark Ronson (Gist) with Wendy Clark, Coca Cola senior VP (left-wing) and Topspin founder/CEO Ian Rogers (healthy), discussed the mulit-faceted tracks he is creating for the Coca-Cola’s Olympic Anthem Continue reading

This past weekend (June 24), Sean “Diddy” Combs received the prestigious Founders Award and Mary Mary garnered the Golden Note Award at ASCAP’s 24th Annual Cadency & Soul Music Continue reading

Foo Fighters, Pearl Hot water, T.I. and Ludacris will headline two days of concerts in September at Atlanta’s Music Midtown.

Organizers of the music festival announced on Tuesday Continue reading

CHICAGO (AP) – When she sang “Fly Outside,” Delois Barrett Campbell’s voice soared to the church rafters and her joy raised the cap.

The gospel legend was the Continue reading

Lady Gaga unveiled dates for her “Born This Way Ballock” tour in Asia and Australia now, and those shows will be followed by dates in the rest of the Continue reading

Spotify Looking For Billions In Support

Spotify is reported to be seeking funding of $3.5 million, according to Business Insider, or $4 million, according to the Financial Times. Continue reading

At Vevo’s “NewFront” Wednesday, Left to settle: Vevo’s David Kohl, John Story, Vevo’s Rio Caraeff and Michael Cerda (Photograph: Neilson Barnard, Getty Images/WireImage)

NEW YORK — Upfronts — Continue reading

(L-R): Paul Foley (GM, Decca Label Bunch), Eric Whitacre, Claire Stretched (Music Productions/Whitacre’s Proprietor), Joseph Oerke (VP, Deutsch Grammophon & Decca Classics, U.S.), Steven Vocalist (VP, Decca Label Platoon). Continue reading

Dick Clark died this morning at the age of 82, but left behind a massive legacy as a television personality and the host of New Year’s Rockin’ Vigil, but Continue reading

Randy Phillips has signed a new contract to remain the Prexy & CEO of AEG Subsist, the position he has held with the live entertainment division of Los Angeles-based Continue reading

Halfway through his standing-room-only live Q&A at today’s Billboard Latin Music Colloquy, Miami-born bilingual pop star Pitbull recalled growing up on his mother’s Tony Robbins tapes. The confession came Continue reading

The Billboard Licentious 100:

As previously reported, merriment.’s “We Are Unfledged,” featuring Janelle Monae, spends a sixth week atop the Billboard Eager 100, making history as the first Continue reading

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There is a lot of frustration out there in the ticket buying world as thousands of fans virtually line up at primary sites like Continue reading

Music manager Troy Carter, who counts Lady Gaga as his No. 1 guest, executive Vincent Herbert, president  of Streamline Records, Gaga’s label parking place, music supervisor Paul Stewart and Continue reading

SYDNEY (AP) — Greg Ham, a musician with the iconic Australian band Men at Labour, was found dead in his Melbourne home on Thursday, Australian reports said.

Victoria Continue reading

On Record Store Daylight, the line outside New York’s J&R Music World reached all the way down the tree, and around it toward Nassau Suiting someone to a t. Continue reading

Lady Gaga might finally stop getting flack for the ignominious 99 cent Amazon sale of her “Born This Conduct” LP last yr. Both AmazonMP3 and Google Play have seemingly Continue reading

Gerardo Ortiz, who has been announced for the purpose 2012′s Billboard Latin Music Discussion, was the big winner at last year’s Billboard Mexican Music Awards.

Recording artists Gerardo Continue reading

Fred Mills, Leader-writer, Blurt Munitions dump

Billboard.biz: What’s the best band/artist you’ve seen even now?

Fred Mills: Bruce Springsteen is the default answer but if you’re referring Continue reading

Pandora’s Stock Hits All-Time Ill

Pandora’s stock fell to an all-time low of $9.03 Monday and closed at $9.18, a 7.46% sinking. The root cause for Monday’s decline Continue reading

Elm City Music act Adrenaline Mob can count itself among the last bands who will have played New York’s Hiro Ballroom, which closes Adjoin 31. The metal supergroup threw Continue reading

Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa set the tone for the pre-Grammy Delta Air Lines helper.

“L.A. is a music borough,” Villaraigosa said Thursday night as he greeted his Continue reading

HOLLYWOOD, California — Henson Studios is located just across the street from Crazy Girls. It’s hard to imagine a better place than the crossroads between Kermit the Frog and Continue reading

NARM announced today that Antony Bruno has been named Community Manager of digitalmusic.org, the virtual home of NARM’s digital initiatives.

Of unfolding, Bruno was previously Executive Director of Continue reading

Jason Crabb cemented his status as a solo phenomenon by winning male vocalist and artist of the year at the G ospel Music Association’s 43rd Annual Dove Awards last Continue reading

Some of music’s biggest names attended BMI’s “How I Wrote That Tune” recently and give the attendees at the Key Club in West Hollywood insights into what it takes Continue reading

Tunc Erim, a legendary and longtime Atlantic Records executive from the 1960s until the 1990s, passed away on Saturday, Cortege 3, after a long ailment. He was 76. Continue reading

Diplo and family celebrated the release of “128 Beats Per Pint-sized,” a tour diary/photojournalism commitment, at Milk Studios in New York on Saturday gloaming.

The artist, in a Continue reading

Chief Creative Officer of Sony Music Clive Davis at the Clive Davis and the Recording Academy’s 2012 Pre-GRAMMY Gala and Salute to Industry Icons Honoring Richard Branson at The Continue reading

Ongoing chatter that the Madonna expedition, and by extension her multi-rights deal with Live Domain, are underperforming is “unwarranted,” according to sales figures provided by tour producer Arthur Fogel, Continue reading

Mike Smith has stepped down as managing director of Columbia Records U.K. with immediate purpose.

No reason has been given for his departure from the nickname, which was Continue reading

In a 2005 Billboard article breaking down Arthur Fogel’s global touring strategies, a few notable figures touted his skills: Bono, David Bowie, Sting and Madonna. “Arthur Fogel knows how Continue reading

BERLIN (AP) — A German court has ruled that online video platform YouTube must install filters to prevent users from uploading some music videos whose rights are held by Continue reading

LONDON (AP) — Carly Rae Jepsen says she had a shock when she saw Justin Bieber singing along to her flap, “Call Me Possibly.”

Adele Beats Jason Mraz Continue reading

The Canadian Broadcast Potbelly (CBC), the country’s oldest public broadcasting web, and Audio-Video Licensing Charge (AVLA) have reached the first negotiated collective license deal in Canada for online streaming Continue reading

Although Christian music is widely known for its imposing diversity in roots, style and treatise, contemporary inspirational music aimed at Mormons gives the genre an added property, as veteran Continue reading

LONDON – Two Michael Jackson fans accused of stealing unreleased music by the late King of Pop from Sony’s computers are confident they can prove their innocence in romance, Continue reading

In preparation for the June launch of their Brothers of the Sun co-headlining circuit, Kenny Chesney and Tim McGraw premiered a new brace, “Feel Like a Rock Big name,” Continue reading

Robin Gibb, perhaps best known as one of the Bee Gees, is also the President of the International Confederation of Societies of Authors and Composers (CISAC), which just held Continue reading

Strange news on the 10th anniversary of TLC member Lisa “Left Liking” Lopes’ eternal rest: According to a report in TMZ, citing “the group’s [unnamed] rep,” TLC will be Continue reading

Australian police have ruled out foul play in the death of Men At Work’s Greg Ham, whose body was found Thursday at his Melbourne address. He was 58. Continue reading

Weeks after the Canadian Broadcast Pot (CBC) reached the country’s first negotiated collective license deal with Audio-Video Licensing Energy (AVLA), the country’s oldest public broadcasting network yesterday (February. 13) Continue reading

Johnny Depp stunned the crowd when he joined Marilyn Manson onstage on Wednesday at the Revolver Golden Gods Awards. As thrilling as it was for Depp to be playing Continue reading

Cumulus Media and Nielsen today announced that the two companies are expanding their relationship to include Cumulus stations using Nielsen’s Broadcast Data Systems, a music monitoring usage, in addition Continue reading

In a photo-death, Adele’s 21 narrowly withstands the challenge of Jason Mraz’ Love Is A Four Letter Word to keep the U.K. album chart coronate. On the singles measurement, Continue reading

AEG Live CEO Randy Phillips stops by the Pioneer Coach bus at Coachella

to visit with Billboards Ray Waddell at the blustery Light of day

Randy Phillips Continue reading

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From unexpended: Producer Jimmy Fill up, Recording Academy President/CEO Neil Portnow, and Jimmy Iovine attend the 5th annual Producers & Engineers Wing Event honoring Iovine at The Village Recording Continue reading

“American Celebrity” mature 5 winner Taylor Hicks will return to the city where he first auditioned for the show that made him famed: Las Vegas.

The Birmingham, Alabama Continue reading

Cleveland rocked on Friday night with private parties and public performances as the city geared up for its third Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction pro formas. Continue reading

As “Drink thereon” advances 2-1, Blake Shelton achieves his sixth straight commander — his 11th whole — on Country Songs, where he takes sole possession of second place among Continue reading

NEW YORK (AP) – The shadowy underworld of Internet hackers was rocked Tuesday by news that one of the world’s most-wanted and most-feared computer vandals has been an FBI Continue reading

Dangerbird recording artist Fitz and the Tantrums were hard to miss as they passed through the beer gardens, lead vocalist Michael Fitzpatrick clad in an all red be acceptable. Continue reading

Grammy-winning jazz singer Norah Jones has parted ways with her longtime management company Macklam Feldman, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed. She has joined S.A.M., or Silva Artist Operation, which Continue reading

From Radical: Steve Barnett, Chairman/COO, Columbia Records; Adele; Rob Stringer, Chairman/CEO Columbia Records; Doug Morris, CEO, Sony Music Recreation. (Negatives: Sony)

After winning six Grammys at the niceties, Continue reading

It is a testament to the lasting influence of Dick Clark that President Barack Obama issued a statement on Wednesday, just hours after Clark died of a heart attack Continue reading

A couple of music companies reported Wednesday the compensation awarded to their top executives. In the last yr, it paid a whole lot more to work for concert promoter Continue reading

There are two things you should know about eMusic’s first smartphone app: it’s available only for the Android operating setup, and it’s pretty laudatory. The app debuted Monday and Continue reading

Billboard.biz is the 24/7 music industry news and resource destination for anyone and everyone driving the business of music. From regularly updated industry news and genre specific channels, to Continue reading

SonarSound, the internationally acclaimed, multi-megalopolis, electronic music and art commemoration, will take place in Tokyo on April 21-22 at the Ageha venue after a successful reintroduction to the city Continue reading

Radio has changed with social media and with the evolving demographics of music lovers. That’s one thing radio executives who spoke Tuesday at the Latin Billboard Music Conference in Continue reading

Foremost among his countless contributions to popular culture and the music enterprise, Dick Clark took in ruins ‘n’ roll out of bedroom radios and placed it on televisions in Continue reading

Jack White will kick off the release of his first solo album with a concert streamed live on the web, to be directed by Gary Oldman.

The show Continue reading

“This was the first show I played in probably six months. I just like to keep playing shows even if I don’t have a lot of new traits. I Continue reading

Dick Clark’s passing earlier today sparked an outpouring of tributes and dedicated to the late great television proprietress. From when he took over as host in 1956 until 1989, Continue reading

Social commerce may not get any easier than Chirpify.

The two-month-old startup allows people to buy and sell digital goods using nothing but tweets by linking Twitter and Continue reading

Adele, LMFAO, Rihanna, Lady Gaga and Lil Wayne lead the finalists for the 2012 Billboard Music Awards, which will air live from the MGM Grand Arena in Las Vegas Continue reading

Mark Wilkinson will take over as president of Deutsche Grammophon as of April 9th. The appointment was announced today by Frank Briegmann, Prexy, Universal Music Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Continue reading

Jay-Z performing at Carnegie Hall with a full-orchestra and the Roots’ Questlove on drums (Pic: Gabriela Herman)

NEW YORK — What better way for Jay-Z to celebrate an Continue reading

On Sunday’s Mad Men, Heinz executive Raymond Geiger (John Sloman) suggests to Don Draper (Jon Hamm) that he get the Rolling Stones to sing a version of “Heinz is Continue reading

The Billboard Build up 100:

As previously reported, Gotye tops the Billboard Fiery 100 as his debut registration “Somebody That I Used to Identify” (featuring Kimbra) lifts 2-1, Continue reading

Island Def Jam has promoted former Vice President of Media and Artist Relations Gabe Tesoriero to Senior Vice President of the same borderline, the company announced tod.

With Continue reading

The Copyright Royalty Board will be led by a new chief copyright judge with the appointment of Suzanne M. Barnett to that emplacement. She was picked by the Librarian Continue reading

Angel Kaminsky (fist), VP Universal Music Latino/Machete Music and Luis Estrada, GM Universal Music Latino/Machete whose Coca-Col “Seremos Mas” campaign Featuring Chino Y Nacho won a  Billboard Latin Music Continue reading

Mexican trio and Latin Grammy winners Reik performed an versed, acoustic set at the Clive Davis Theatre at the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles February. 22. The troop, accompanied Continue reading

X5 Music Group today announced the hiring of Noelle Bell to join their growing U.S. team as Account President. Bell had previously worked at Sony Commercial Music Group as Continue reading

There have been a lot of announcements building up in anticipation of Record Store Prime 2012 (set your calendars for April 21 this yr) but the largest one of Continue reading

Snoop In The Motor: Only Snoop himself didn’t know he was playing inside a giant vending machine at SXSW.

(Picture: Andrew Hampp)

The only person who didn’t Continue reading

Billboard.biz reported way back in June that David Foster would be joining Universal Music Circle (and in August that he’d be heading up ?lan), and finally on Thursday light, Continue reading

Dick Clark, the revered TV producer whose “American Stand,” “American Top-notch 40″ and  “New Year’s Rockin’ Vigil” helped shape modern pop music for decades, died of a “massive heart Continue reading

Oscar nominees, from leftfield, Brett McKenzie, Ludovic Bource, Sergio Mednes, Siedah Garrett and Alberto Iglesias chat before offical photograohs are taken as the annual Society of Composers and Lyricists Continue reading

Facebook is spending $1 billion to buy the photo-sharing company Instagram in the social network’s largest acquisition constantly.

Instagram lets people apply filters to photos they snap with Continue reading

Faced with mounting losses, Sony Corporation. said Thursday it will mark down 10,000 jobs, or close to 6 percent of its global men, and try to turn around its Continue reading

Skype hosted the Pack away, Doch an dorris, and Be Human event complete with an interactive stage where fans could jam with their favorite artists while they played in Continue reading

Coachella will be live streaming some of its acts across three channels on YouTube this yr, allowing fans who got priced pass? – or were too late to purchase Continue reading

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After spending most of her career signed to Sony labels, Gloria Estefan is taking a completely different direction with her new album, which will be released September. 27 as Continue reading

On day two of CRS, Alan Jackson took time to sit down and discuss his long and illustrious career with a Q&A hosted by radio personality Lon Helton. Among Continue reading

MERRILLVILLE, Ind. — The tour manager who was widely credited with saving the lives of country duo Sugarland before a deadly stage collapse at last summer’s Indiana State Fair Continue reading

Ana Guillen has left her position as Northwest Region Promotions Manager at Warner Brothers after eight years to take an executive position at Collective Sounds.

Guillen, who previously Continue reading

SXSW Interactive has forged a reputation as not only a breeding ground for the hottest new tech companies and apps on the call (Hi Straightforwardly), but also as a Continue reading

NEW YORK (AP) — Facebook made a much-anticipated status update Wednesday: The Internet social network is going public eight years after its computer-hacking CEO Mark Zuckerberg started the service Continue reading

Slash was in Toronto for a few days to do press for his upcoming album, Apocalyptic Have a passion, out May 22, as well as for a Celebrity Interview Continue reading

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Media and production company Prospect Park today named Ron Cerrito the senior executive of its music classification. Cerrito has had a long career in the music bustle, founding artist Continue reading

Prince will make a uncommon, royal visit Down Under this May.

After months of rumor and gab, it was confirmed today that Prince will play three arena dates Continue reading

Island Def Jam today announced that Gabrielle Peluso would be taking over as General Director, Def Jam Recordings, a promotion from her prior position as Senior Vice Prexy, Video Continue reading

With Music Business Foundation, Farm Aid’s Main Players: Dave Matthews, John Mellencamp, Willie Nelson Leave Strike

This is what the music business has long known about Farm Subsidize: Continue reading

Radiohead Return To Australia Aft 8 Eld

Radiohead will make the long haul to Australia this November for the band’s first shows here in eight eld, tour promoters Continue reading

Neil Schield knew he could make a handful of changes for this year’s Record Store Era, his third and the organization’s fifth annual commemoration. Doors could open at 8 Continue reading

Spotify CEO Daniel Ek announced the launch of a new API (Application Programming Port) for the Stockholm-based music streaming company during a global press conference tod (November. 30) in Continue reading

The sale of EMI is just the beginning in what could be a lengthy process that further consolidates the record and music publishing businesses. Citigroup’s sale of EMI — Continue reading

Pandora Media (NYSE:P) shares had dropped 5 percent in midday trading Monday in the wake of music-streaming service Spotify’s unveiling of upgraded radio features. The broader market was also Continue reading

Concessions at the Super Bowl Sunday, for the first on the dot, will serve organic eats, sourced through Farm Grant-money, the music-industry-backed group that supports American farmers.

The Continue reading

Pandora Accounts For More Than A Third of SoundExchange’s Collections

Pandora accounted for somewhere surrounded by 36.7% and 38.6% of SoundExchange’s collections for digital performance royalties in 2012. Continue reading

Grammy-winning artists Erykah Badu and DJ Spinderella took turns as DJs at the Grammy Glam party Tuesday (February. 7) in celebration of the Grammy Awards taking place on Sunday. Continue reading

Not many music-business institutions have been around longer than Dick Clark, but Billboard is one of them. From his early days on “American Stand” to his death at the Continue reading

Your eyes aren’t deceiving you. There are two different groups named One Direction on the Billboard charts this workweek.

While the U.K. pop quintet is at No. 5 Continue reading

Nicki Minaj is on track to score her second No. 1 album on the Hoarding 200, while Rascal Flatts is heading for its eighth excel 10 upon.

Industry Continue reading

Say you’re a big fan of Sleigh Bells (the ensemble, not the wintertime equine adscititious). Wouldn’t you want to listen to whatever Derek Miller and Alexis Krauss rocked on Continue reading

It not exactly a price war just all, but iTunes has 302 songs priced at 69 cents songs acting as a counterweight to Amazon’s 226 69-cent songs.

In Continue reading

NEW YORK (AP) – Apple is holding an event Wednesday in San Francisco, and has hinted that it will reveal a new iPad poser. Rumors speak of an updated Continue reading

Lil B needs a hand sign for his cult pursual. Wu-Tang Clan fans throw up the “W.” Jay-Z fans throw diamonds (“the roc”) in the current. That’s simply all Continue reading

Traveling EDM dance-a-thon IDENTITY Festival will be returning for its second year with a 15-date nationwide tour this summertime. The Live Nation event will feature such names as Eric Continue reading

Just like that, the Faces reunion with Rod Stewart has been called fixed. The remaining three members of the legendary band announced tod (April 13) at the Rock and Continue reading

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — With Carrie Underwood, Miranda Lambert and Taylor Swift atop the menu, look no further than the CMT Music Awards nominations for proof country music’s new Continue reading

BERLIN – 500 exhibitors from 31 nations will participate in the seventh annual jazzahead!, a Jazz trade fair in Bremen, Germany at the Exhibition Center Bremen from April 19-22. Continue reading

This past weekend, one of country music’s most exclusive clubs added one more name to the list with the induction of Keith Urban into the cast of the Grand Continue reading

Multiple Juno Award winner and world music promoter Billy Bryans died today after battling lung cancer. He was 63.

While he is best known as the co-founder and Continue reading

Reggae chart toppers UB40 have declared failure. As reported by the Daily Letters, saxophonist Brian Travers, drummer Jimmy Brownness, trumpeter Terence “Astro” Wilson, and percussionist Norman Hassan were all Continue reading

A celebrated prolific creator, successful artists manager and an all around staunch defender of cultural roots reggae, Philip ‘Fattis’ Burrell, 57, died at Kingston’s University of the West Indies Continue reading

Dick Clark Productions writer and former Billboard columnist Fred Bronson remembers the “American Stand” leader and his profound influence on the music employment – following is an pick out, Continue reading

Singers Joan Sebastian, Pepe Aguilar and Shaila Durcal, three major artists in Mexican music, are heading to 15 cities as part of a U.S. tour that kicks off June Continue reading

tUnE-yArDs, aka Merrill Garbis overcoming Coachella’s desert heat that kicked-in the second weekend. (Picture: Jeff Miller)

INDIO, KHALIFAH. — tUnE-yArDs, aka Merrill Garbis, played a set under the Continue reading

Three of the biggest names in Latin music-salsa singer Marc Anthony, romantic balladeer Marco Antonio Solis and pop vocalist Chayanne-are teaming up for a U.S. tour that will take Continue reading

Don Omar who leads this year’s Billboard Latin Music Awards with 16 finalist nods.

Many music industry pundits say this is increasingly a business of songs. And in Continue reading

Colombian star Juanes will tape an “MTV Unplugged” special in Miami next February. The special will be produced by TR3s: MTV, Musica y Más, MTV’s U.S. Hispanic web, and Continue reading

Martin Mills of Beggars Group Says EMI-Universal Music Kills Niche Artists

Martin Mills, chairman and founder of the Beggars Set apart, has lodged a complaint with European regulators Continue reading

Bob Dylan and the Band had a thrilling musical relationship, but with the death of drummer Levon Helm on Thursday, it’s the personal connection that Dylan remembers.

Levon Continue reading

Singer Rihanna performs at the Three Six Zero Group’s & Roc Nation Grammy afterparty charity concert benefitting Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles at House of Blues Sunset Strip on Continue reading

Groupon today announced the launch of G-Outmoded, an aspect of GrouponLive that allows users to access venues without having to stop by the box office first to pick up Continue reading

Atlantic Records singer/songwriter Marina Diamandis, a.k.a. Marina & The Diamonds, popped by the Billboard offices on Tuesday to play a handful of songs from her hotly anticipated sophomore album, Continue reading

While Jason Mraz and Lionel Richie are still duking it out for No. 1 next week on the Hoarding 200 albums design, rock band Train and rapper Future are Continue reading

From George Strait’s surprise appearance at the UMG luncheon at the Ryman to numerous showcases in the downtown enclosure, the first day of Country Radio Seminar 2012 kicked off Continue reading

Billboard will host a Q&A with superstar Pitbull as part of the 23rd annual Billboard Latin Music League & Awards, presented by State Farm and taking place April 23-26 Continue reading

Despite vigorous protests from independent label aggregations, the Warner Music Group and digerati organizations, the Sony Corporation of America-led consortium’s acquisition of EMI Music Publishing sailed through the European Continue reading

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More than one-third of online consumers purchased an event ticket online Continue reading

Keith Urban claims his 14th leader on Country Songs with “You Gonna Burst into,” which also completes the artist’s third set of three straight No. 1 songs. Urban launched Continue reading

Pandora Media’s figures for the month of March show the Internet radio service’s growth rate has remained strong since it went public in June.

Pandora now streams over Continue reading

Nickelodeon today named Colleen Fitzpatrick — a.k.a. the singer formerly known as Vitamin C, behindhits allied “Graduation” and “Beam” –its new vice president of music, tasking her with overseeing Continue reading

Justin Vernon of Bon Iver performing at Coachella (Getty)

If Friday night at Coachella was all about the old-timers like Sensational, Refused, Mazzy Star and James looking for Continue reading

The live telecast of Univision’s Premios Lo Nuestro February. 16 garnered an average audience of 3.1 million Adults 18-49, according to Nielsen, and was the No. 2 Network for Continue reading

Vincent Freda has been named the chief operating officer of Isolation Web, the parent company of Ingrooves Fontana and Inscribe Digital. He will report to company founder and CEO Continue reading

Vevo appears to be going to some length to underscore the important role Facebook now plays in its traffic and viewership.

The fruits of Vevo’s successful integration with Continue reading

The afternoon theme at the Billboard Latin Music Conference Tuesday was “The Marketing Reciprocate,” and fittingly, it started with a live Q&A starring Don Omar. Once pigeonholed simply as Continue reading

On January 25, Estelle previewed her new album “All Of Me” before an intimate crowd at Home on Houston Street in New York. It’s been three years since the Continue reading

Australia’s High Court on Friday dismissed the movie studios’ last-ditch attempt to hold the iiNet Internet service provider accountable for copyright theft on its web.

Trade association the Continue reading

BMI, Hoarding, Suntrust and Austin’s Four Seasons Hotel teamed up to host the BMI & Billboard Acoustic Brunch at the South by Southwest Music Festival on Friday. A favorite Continue reading

Nicki Minaj has gone implicit.

An unlikely announcement, yes, but true still, at least as far as her Twitter presence is worried. The rapstress wished her 11 million Continue reading

Levon Wheel, a drummer, actor and the last surviving voice of The Bunch, whose Southern tenor was heard on the group’s classic songs “Up on Cripple Burn” and “The Continue reading

On April 13 — and then again on April 20 — thousands of sun-worshipping music fans will head out to the desert in Indio, Khalifah. for the start of Continue reading

The BamaJam Festival in Audacity, Ala. has become one of the most anticipated country music events of the yr, and with the announcement of Tim McGraw, the Zac Brown Continue reading

NEW YORK (AP) — Chris Brown is delivering more than hit songs – he’s selling puppies.

A rep for the singer confirmed Tuesday that Brown is selling two-month-old Continue reading

Prior to the Revolver Golden Gods Award Show yesterday (April 12), the Grammy Museum opened its first-ever heavy metal show, “Golden Gods: The History of Heavy Metallic.”

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Conviction, family and country music were celebrated Friday gloom (October. 28) at the 17th Annual Inspirational Country Music (ICM) Awards at Nashville’s Schermerhorn Symphony Mall. Ricky Skaggs was the Continue reading

Madonna’s 12th studio album, “MDNA,” is on course to easily debut at No. 1 on the Hoarding 200 chart next workweek. Industry sources suggest the set could sell mid Continue reading

Sean “Diddy” Combs, brand ambassador for CIROC vodka, at an event for the libation in Beverly Hills.

Sean “Diddy” Combs stopped by the SLS Hotel in Beverly Hills Continue reading

As the date approaches for regulatory statements on the sale of EMI and MIDEM begins this weekend, IMPALA has issued a statement on the sales marathon. In November, hortly Continue reading

Adding to the heartfelt remembrances of the late Dick Clark on Wednesday, Motown founder Berry Gordy had warm words for the influential spreader, whom he called a “major force Continue reading

Shazam has two new partnerships that show how mobile technology is changing how music fans root, experience and purchase music. One is the FilterForGood project with Brita that offers Continue reading

Fluent Inc. is a universal performance marketing network that enables publishers, advertisers, and developers to more effectively scope, aim, and engage with consumers through their proprietary web and mobile Continue reading

“American Stand,” the bedrock of Dick Clark’s iconic broadcasting vocation, served as a performance avenue for some of the biggest musical artists of all life span. And whether he Continue reading

Dominique Leguern was appointed president of the International Radio Festival’s first-ever advisory panel, after spending 12 years as the head of MIDEM. The gala day, which celebrates its third Continue reading

NEW YORK (AP) – A coalition of musicians that has protested the Recording Academy’s decision to descend 31 categories from the Grammy Awards is stepping up the insistence, calling Continue reading

Music and spoken word from the Latin perspective shared the spotlight during VidaLexus Presenta: Poesia & Percusion-capped by the presentation of the Lexus Pursuit of Perfection Award to musician/singer/songwriter Continue reading

For the second time in the Juno Awards 41-year retelling, the annual celebration of Canadian music was held in the nation’s capital of Ottawa, beginning with the private gala Continue reading

Bruce Springsteen’s new studio album Wrecking Ball is on course to sell at bottom 200,000 copies by week’s end on Sunday, Trek 11 — so say industry prognosticators. How, Continue reading

Billboard and Donna Karan New York famous “the inspiring women of Latin music” at a fashion show and luncheon at the JW Marriott Marquis in Miami on Monday. The Continue reading

Berlin – At the 21st German ECHO award show Thursday night in Berlin, UK singer Adele, who did not attend the award lay bare, was honored with two ECHO Continue reading

Before LMFAO hit the “American Darling” stage for a performance Thursday stygian, the party-loving pop outfit was served with a $7 million lawsuit from their former management clan, TMZ Continue reading

Fueled by a “Gloat” remake and his appearance on “Saturday Night Endure,” Gotye scores his first No. 1 on the Billboard Sensitive 100 with his first entry on the Continue reading

Dick Clark’s death yesterday sent waves through the music community, as countless took to social networks and websites to express their condolences, stories, memories, and thoughts on the longtime Continue reading

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Dick Clark married music and television long in the forefront “American Favourite.” But his legacy extends well beyond the persona of the laid-back host of Continue reading

Lionel Richie’s “Tuskegee” holds at No. 1 for a second week on the Hoarding 200, unfirm 114,000 copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan (polish 11%). The pop veteran blocks Jason Continue reading

When Vevo launched its ad-supported music video platform two years since, streaming was sluggish for a few years. The kinks were quickly worked dated, and Vevo has since become Continue reading

In a letter on Guns N’ Roses’ official website, frontman Axl Rose thanked fans and the city of Cleveland for their support in the wake of his Rock and Continue reading

“My new album is gonna be coming out in September/October and that’s going to be determined. I want it to be an undergo,” Afrojack said. “I don’t want it Continue reading

IN THIS WEEK’S CONSEQUENCE: Cover Fabliau: Will country radio warm to duo Sugarland’s genre-blurring ambitions?; After dominating the pop charts with the Smeezingtons, Bruno Mars strikes out on his Continue reading

Fresh of her halftime performance at Super Bowl XLV (which was viewed alongside 114 million general public) comes details of the Madonna 2012 World Globe-trot. The trek will begin Continue reading

Dominican star Juan Luis Guerra will be honored during the 10th annual FedEx/St. Jude Angels & Stars Gala in Miami, benefitting St. Jude Children’s Research nursing home. The gala Continue reading

Music May Be Losing Significance to Sony

Sony Corporation. wants to revitalize its electronics occupation, but how will it use music to get thither? The company announced a Continue reading

Trent Reznor, the lead singer from Nine Inch Nails and co-composer of massive movie soundtracks such as “The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo” and the Oscar and Golden Globe-endearing Continue reading

The Hoarding 200:

This week on the Hoarding 200, Lionel Richie claimed his third No. 1 album with the rise of “Tuskegee” (129,000 sold, according to Nielsen SoundScan, Continue reading

Independent rights group Impala is reiterating its opposition to Sony’s acquisition of EMI Music Publishing from Citigroup. Tuesday’s statement comes a day after Sony officially notified the European Commission’s Continue reading

Jane Monheit performing with The Les Paul Trio at Iridium in New York on Monday gloaming (photograph: Frank Spotless)

The Iridium nightclub in New York’s theater district came Continue reading

Chris Brown’s got his business in overuse: In addition to finishing up his fifth studio album Fortuity (July 3) and selling two-month-familiar, $1,000 pit bull puppies, the singer/songwriter has Continue reading

Apple blew past expectations by reporting on Tuesday it earned $11.6 billion in its second fiscal quarter on revenue of $39.2 gazillion.

On a per-share point of departure, Continue reading

Go behind the scenes of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame installation, held Saturday in Cleveland, with our roving roundup of chatter with the likes of Ron Romance, Continue reading

Vocal group One Direction makes waves on the Billboard Sultry 100 singles chart this week as its “What Makes You Superb” debuts at No. 28. It’s the highest bow Continue reading

Following their long-overdue Unity Tour running across the U.S. this summertime, the Jacksons plan to return to the studio and work on their first studio album since 1989′s 2300 Continue reading

Bernie Finkelstein – who built one of Canada’s leading independent record labels and certainly the oldest, True North Records, which he sold in 2007 afterwards 38 eld – was Continue reading

RCA Records today announced the promotion of Jennifer Fowler to senior vice prexy, digital marketing from her previous post of vice prexy, digital transacting. She will remain in the Continue reading

From formerly larboard: David Joseph, President & CEO, Universal Music UK; Lana Del Rey; Lucian Grainge, Chairwoman & Chief Executive Peace officer, Universal Music Categorize. (Kodachromes: Courtesy Universal Music) Continue reading

Lynn Hazan, former executive vice president and general manager of RED Distribution and the Independent Online Distribution Coalition, is taking over as general manager and Chief Financial Officer at Continue reading

Billboard.biz a 24/7 extension of Billboard armoury, is the music industry’s premiere news start. It also covers every aspect of the entertainment space as it pertains to everyone from Continue reading

Kobalt Music Group Ltd. launched two new divisions tod, Kobalt Artist and Label Services and Kobalt Neighboring Rights Minimal, each designed to add another dimension to the publishing company’s Continue reading

Levon Chairmanship, a treasured voice in Americana music whose Southern drawl and busy-but-tight drumming brought an authenticity to The Combination, is losing his decade-long battle with cancer, his family Continue reading

The music universe is reeling due to the passing this week of Dick Clark at 82. Between his numerous television and radio credits, Clark enjoyed one of the longest Continue reading

Diet Coke has unveiled a new line of fashionable bottles, one of which draws inspiration from Madonna’s infamous cone bra composite.

Famed French designer Jean Paul Gaultier — Continue reading

Spotify wants to be the world’s music contender. Its new streaming music contrivance, called the Play Push, is a step in that regulation.

Unveiled Tuesday, the Play Button Continue reading

The German collection society GEMA in 2011 saw a decrease in its income of 4.3 percent and an increase in operating costs of 14.9 percent.  The yearly report was Continue reading

Don Omar was the star of the show at the Billboard Latin Music Conference Tuesday, and in between his Q&A with Billboard’s Leila Cobo and his other myriad engagements, Continue reading

Regional Mexican singer Jenni Rivera capped off the premiere party of the second season of her reality outshine “I Love Jenni” by saying one word about where she’s at Continue reading

RapidShare Encourages Customers to Comply With Copyright Law

File hosting service RapidShare is playing the role of good corporate citizen with the release of a four-stage “Responsible Practices Continue reading

NEW YORK — The 2012 Pulitzer Prize winners and finalists, with comments from judges:

Music: “Silent Sundown: Opera in Two Acts” by Kevin Puts, commissioned and premiered by Continue reading

Jay-Z may have made the Yankee hat more famous than a Yankee can, but his clothing line Rocawear is teaming up with the Bronx Bombers for a bit of Continue reading

Record Store Day is right around the tree (this Saturday April 21, but you already knew that), so here’s a few updates and miscellaneous pieces of information that will Continue reading

WEST HOLLYWOOD — A private party to introduce Joe Walsh’s first album of original music in 20 years started laughable, included a sales pitch and ended with “Rocky Mountain Continue reading