The honchos of Sony Music Entertainment‘s U.S. Sales and Distribution team stand before the legendary blue curtain in Wal-Mart’s underground lair after being named the retail behemoth’s 2012 Music Supplier of the Year.  Seen wondering who’s going to clean up that spill in aisle 14 are (l-r) Sony SVP National Sales Bob Garbarini, Sony Senior Director, U.S. Sales Mark…

NIELSEN has unveiled the findings from “The Buyer and the Beats: The Music Fan and How to Reach Them,” a music study created especially for the 2013 SXSW CONFERENCE attendees that provides beneficial insights about music fans, defined as those who are passionately invested in music. Co-presented by NIELSEN and SXSW during this year’s conference…

The ultimate goal of any artist is quite simple; to have their music heard by as many people as possible. Due to the many avenues available now, musicians in the earliest stages of their careers tend to overlook a basic tool to get their music heard by a wide audience; radio. While there is no denying…

Warner/Chappell Music and Rhino Entertainment are unifying synchronization operations to create more of a one-stop shop for recorded music and music publishing rights, Billboard has learned. As part of the new offering, Ron Broitman, Warner/Chappell’s senior VP-head of synchronization, is being promoted to executive VP-head of synchronization for Warner/Chappell Music and Rhino Entertainment. Broitman and…

If NBC follows through on its plan to base the “Tonight Show” in New York come 2014, the biggest smiles may well be on the faces of Scott Igoe and the music booking team at ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live.” With Burbank out of the picture, “Kimmel” will be the only network option in Los Angeles…

YouTube on Wednesday said it now has 1 billion monthly viewers, steadily growing from the 800 million monthly viewers the online video platform reached in October 2011. The announcement, made at a company event in Los Angeles to show off YouTube premium channels to potential advertisers, puts the company in the same audience league as Facebook,…