Taylor Swift‘s Red now looks solidly north of 1 million in first-week sales, with a chance to possibly top Lady Gaga‘s 1.1 million-selling debut for Born This Wayin May 2011. But that album, of course, included more than 400k in 99-cent sales from Amazon MP3. How about that, boys and girls?! Meanwhile, Interscope‘s Kendrick Lamar is also having a big first week, with…

The latest word on Parlophone is that Warner Music is now the favorite to win the auction. There’s lots of chatter this a.m., as Goldman Sachs, UMG’s banker for the sales of the EU-mandated divestitures of Parlophone and other smaller catalogs, gets ready to send books out to prospective buyers—or, as one insider dubbed them, the usual suspects. Those would be BMG, Sony Music, WMG, Apollo, Ron…

Ticketing service Eventbrite has released a report that shows how social commerce has evolved over the last two years. Both dollars per share and visits per share have increased considerably over the last two years. And while Twitter generates more traffic back to Eventbrite, Facebook creates more ticket revenue. Just for comparison, back in September 2011 Ticketmaster…