Walking through a crowd of people with Kendrick Lamar is, well, different. He’s a celebrity, and people ask for pictures. They comment on how short he is in real life, try to hand off their personal mixtapes, and intrepid groupies still offer—read: throw—the things that groupies offer. In that regard, Kendrick’s just like any of-the-moment…
Taylor Swift Going for Six Weeks at No. 1 With ‘Red’ on Next Week’s Billboard 200
Taylor Swift is dreaming of a “Red” Christmas, it seems. Industry sources are forecasting that her latest album, “Red,” is on track to possibly spend a sixth non-consecutive week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart next week. The album could move between 260,000 and 290,000 by the end of the tracking week on…
BMG Acquires Mute Records Catalog
In its second deal of the day, BMG Rights Management has acquired the Mute back catalog owned by EMI, which includes records released by artists like Depeche Mode, Erasure, Moby, Goldfrapp and Nick Cave. According to sources, BMG paid over 7 million pounds, or between $11 and $14 million, for the assets it acquired. While…
What Really Happened to Sony and Universal’s 2 Billion Missing YouTube Views
On Thursday, when YouTube sent out its regular reports on view counts, one data company, SocialBlade, noticed that the channel views for Sony Music Entertainment and Universal Music Group saw its channel count sliced by about 2 billion views. That led some folks to conclude that the views were “fake” and that nefarious “black hat” techniques were…
Billboard.Biz Readers’ Survey Results, Part 3: The Biggest Issue Facing the Music Business Is … ?
As part of our year-end special, we asked you, the audience three specific questions about 2012 — and we got dozens of thoughtful, intelligent, well-considered responses. In the last of three questions we asked the industry “What will the most important/influential issue facing the music industry be in 2013?” To which we got a huge…
10 People That Totally Changed the Industry In 2012
Who made the biggest, most disruptive impact on the music industry in 2012? Here are ten to consider… (1) Jeff Price, former CEO, Tunecore. Balls, he’s got ’em. Fights, he picks ’em. Results, he sometimes gets ’em. And in an industry mired in hugely complicated and logjammed issues with endless doubletalk, that’s pretty good. There were…
Warner Music Group Names Rob Wisenthal COO
Warner Music Group today announced that Sony EVP Rob Wiesenthal has been appointed Chief Operating Officer, a new position, effective January 1. Wiesenthal will be based in New York and report directly to CEO Steve Cooper. Wiesenthal joins WMG from Sony Corporation where he has served in various leadership roles including Executive Vice President &…
The Throne Hits Triple Platinum & Gold
“Niggas In Paris” has just hit triple platinum. Also this week, their album’s opening track, “No Church In The Wild” passed the 500k mark.
Irv Gotti Joins Lyor Cohen Agency?
For the last three months, rumor has it that Lyor Cohen is forming a talent mgmt company. Now, the NY Post reports that Irv Gotti is set to come on board. According to an anonymous source, the deal was made this week. The Inc. shall rise again? Stay tuned. [RapRadar]
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