Liberty Lucken “Be a Lady Tonight”has been named VP Sales at Epic Records, reporting toSony Music EVP Sales and Distribution Darren Stupak. Liberty will oversee all aspects of sales, working closely with label GM/CFO Lynn Hazan. She has been a member of the Sony Music team since 2004, most recently as Sr. Director of Sales for the Amazon.com team. Prior to that, she…
Next Week’s Top 15 Album Predictions
We have a winner in the race for next week’s #1 with Bon Jovipulling ahead of David Bowie by about 10k. A total of six debuts land in the Top 10. Here’s how it looks headed into the weekend: *Bon Jovi (Island/IDJ) 85-90k *David Bowie (Columbia) 75-80k Luke Bryan (Capitol Nashville) 65-70k Bruno Mars (Atlantic) 45-50k *Passion (Sixsteps/Sparrow) 40-45k *Eric Clapton (Bushbranch/Surfdog) 35-40k *Sound…
Book Soup to Feature Clive Davis
Big evening tonight at Book Soup at 8818 Sunset Blvd., in Hollywood., as a pair of music industry legends appear back-to-back to sign their new books. First up, Clive Davis will autograph copies of his best-selling The Soundtrack of My Life starting at 4 p.m., while the equally iconic Andrew Loog Oldham, original manager and…
Man Vs. Machine — Data Science and the Future of A&R
As the music industry wrestles with how to find the next big hit, research A&R — which uses data to identify artists’ movement in the marketplace — is rapidly gaining importance compared to traditional on-the-ground A&R. In this panel moderated by data scientist Zanab Hussain, Sony ATV Director of A&R Jacob Fain and Next Big…
SXSW Twitter Tracker: Top Trending Artists
Billboard has teamed up with music analytics company MusicMetric to give readers a real-time view of which SXSW artists people are talking about on Twitter. By using the artists Twitter handle and keyword groups relating to the artist and SXSW (including the official hashtag), MusicMetric has synthesized Twitter buzz into a ranked chart showing who…
SXSW Q&A: Pandora CTO Tom Conrad on Mobile-Streaming Cap, Internet Radio Fairness Act, More
As Chief Technology Officer at Pandora, Tom Conrad has led product development for the dominant Internet radio company since its inception nearly 10 years ago. Since then, the company has grown to occupy 8% of all radio play and 134 million registered users. But it’s now at a crossroads as it attempts to keep costs…
HYPETRAK TV: Woodkid – Running Man
29-year-old French video director/singer/songwriter Yoann Lemoine, better known as Woodkid, has made his vocation is to fuse sound and vision and morph both elements into a multi-sensual experience. Prominent recording artists such as Drake, Lana Del Rey, and Katy Perry have entrusted him to visually interpret their respective singles. However, it were his very own…
Producer and Mix Engineer, Tony Hoffer – Pensado’s Place #106
Producer and Mix Engineer Tony Hoffer (Beck, M83, Silversun Pickups, Depeche Mode) sits down with Dave and Herb on the 106th episode of Pensado’s Place! Dave and Tony discuss Tony’s recent work on M83’s “Midnight City”, Silversun Pickups’s “Carnavas”, as well as his philosophies and methods when it comes to his mix and production work….
Jay-Z To Produce Music For “Great Gatsby
Jay-Z’s legendary career turns a new page soon, as he enters the realm of movie soundtracks. Hov is making and producing music for the upcoming adaptation of The Great Gatsby. A press release through Reuters announces that the goal for Jay is to meld contemporary and period music together, to infuse hip-hop’s cool into the jazz…
Kanye West Album To Feature Production From The Heatmakerz
The Heatmakerz have revealed in an interview with MTV News that they will be producing tracks for Kanye West’s next album. Calling it “old school, epic Heatmakerz, soul music at its best”, it leads us to believe that the records will go back to Kanye’s “soul” roots which made his albums The College Dropout, and Late Registration so successful. [AlLindstrom]
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