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BlackBerry launches BBM Music and new smartphones
Troubled smartphone maker BlackBerry has announced the launch of BBM Music and two new handsets, the Bold 9790, which features a keyboard,...
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DIY Social Media Tips From The Billboard 2011 Touring Conference
Though the Billboard 2011 Touring Conference & Awards focused primarily on the upper niches of the touring industry, there were worthwh...
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Money From Music: Songwriter Conversation @ Summit11
Money From Music: Songwriter Conversation @ Summit11 from Future of Music Coalition on Vimeo .
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WHO NEEDS HITS: Record Companies Are Handing Out Million Dollar Deals ...
Harlem rapper A$AP Rocky has never sold a single song of his own. All right, he's not the only one . But unlike the Weeknd, and a h...
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Waka Flocka’s Mommyger, Debra Antney RANTS About The Problems In The Industry
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The New Economics of the Music Industry
In the old days, it was much easier for pop stars to keep up with how much they were getting paid. Somebody would buy a CD at a Tower Record...
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Philly's Music Summit TOMORROW!!
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Apple Stores Closing For Steve Jobs Memorial...
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple Inc plans to shutter U.S. retail stores for several hours on Wednesday so employees can take part in a...
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Artist Development Affair
Auditions will be held every Wednesday at Black and Nobel Broad & Erie Ave 4pm. Artists will be chosen based on originality, stag...
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Universal Music Publishing Chairman/CEO David Renzer Exits
RENZER's exit follows those of longtime UMG CEO/Chairman DOUG MORRIS , who exited in MARCH ( NET NEWS 3/2 ) to become CEO at SON...
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Radio's future is getting paid and paying for music
Radio broadcasters could check the music status and even pay for (or get paid to play) new music with a simple click of a computer mouse....
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What is K-Pop and why are the Swedish getting involved?
K-Pop is a genre that sounds a bit like the Black Eyed Peas – only in Korean. A few English words are added to create meaningless song tit...
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Twitter Has Changed The Music Industry, Says Snoop Dogg
“I feel it’s the number one key in music right now,” he says, “Having that relationship with fans where it’s not based on your record lab...
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Add Live Streaming to the List of Festival Essentials...
If festivals were like movie theaters, this wouldn't be such a good idea. But of course, festivals are about so much more than just th...
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Breaking: Ticketmaster Unleashing Dynamic Pricing Tool...
Suddenly, this whole conversation gets more interesting - and complicated. The Live Nation-owned Ticketmaster will start rolling the...
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Should Google buy the music industry?
The latest rumor to emerge from the Google campus is that the company’s much anticipated music service is just about at the end of their ...
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Follow-ups on Spotify changes hone in on labels and US implications
Here’s the Telegraph’s music biz source : “The labels are getting tired of waiting for more people to start paying for Spotify, so severa...
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Spotify's limits on free use will please the big record labels
To put it bluntly: Spotify is cutting the amount of free music people can listen to in order to please the American labels with which...
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Sirius XM Agrees to Pay Indies $3.6 Million…
SiriusXM Radio has now agreed to pay the indie label community $3.6 million, according to settlement details shared with Digital Music N...
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What Rebecca Black can teach you about music contracts
It doesn’t take long for partners to become enemies when a record “pops” and royalty checks start rolling in........ according to new...
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U.S. Music Sales Down Just 1.3% In First Quarter...
Album sales for the quarter ending on April 3, including track-equivalent albums (whereby 10 digital tracks equals one album), are down to...
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Grammys Cutting More Than 30 Categories
The R&B field, for example, had eight categories at the most recent Grammys in February , including prizes for not only best R&...
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The Crazy Bond Between Artist & Entrepreneur
The music industry has a notoriously high rate of failure - not just for entrepreneurs, but also for artists. In fact, both groups are p...
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Billboard Targets Indie Artists With New Pro Service
Billboard has launched a new subscription-based service that targets indie artists and their entourage. The service, Billboard Pro, offe...
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Kirk Franklin's 'Hello Fear' makes Soundscan history
Kirk Franklin says: “I am just humbled. It is a blessing to know that, after all of these years making music, God continues to give me so...
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STUDENTS VISIT PATCHWERK STUDIOS
Chop Shop 2.2 from AWOL All Walks of Life Inc. on Vimeo . -
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Songwriter Flubs- Part 2
Thinking Your Most Recent Song Is Your Best Song Yet. It’s a curse, I swear. I’ve fallen prey to this nasty little reality slap many ...
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Spotify Lands EMI Deal, Closes In On U.S. Launch
Word of Spotify’s sleek and uber-functional music service first started perking up ears on this side of the pond a few years ago, but th...
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