Charlotte Lee, an artist manager for IMG, talks about the music business and the responsibilities of an artist manager.
Rick Rubin On Producing Kanye’s Yeezus
While finalizing Yeezus, Kanye commissioned Rick Rubin to executive produce the album. Speaking with the Wall Street Journal, Rick speaks on how it came into fruition and the experience. [RapRadar] When and why did you join the “Yeezus” project? Kanye came over to play me what I assumed was going to be the finished album…
Apple Is Now Sending Non-Negotiable iTunes Radio Contracts to Indie Labels…
That’s according to several indie label sources, all of whom have agreed to share top-level contract details with Digital Music News. These are bigger labels you’ve definitely heard of, along with a number of smaller labels and indie distributors. All of them are essentially confirming this: Apple is now sending pre-filled, inferior contract terms to…
Album Sales (Predictions)
As many as eight new releases could debut in the Top 15 next week. The biggest and probably loudest of these, of course, will be 13 from Republic‘s reunited metal godfathers, Black Sabbath. Here’s how it looks headed into the weekend: *Black Sabbath (Republic) 115-125k Daft Punk (Columbia) 45-50k *Big Time Rush (Columbia) 40-45k *Hans…
Warner Music Names Stu Bergen Int’l President; Promotes Mike Jbara, Matt Signore, Matt Flott
Stu Bergen has been named president, international, Warner Recorded Music according to a release sent out today by the Warner Music Group. In his new role Bergen will add responsibility for WMG’s recorded music business across Asia Pacific and Latin America to the territories he currently oversees, Canada and Continental Europe. He will continue oversee…
Class of 2013 Inducted into Songwriters Hall of Fame
Sting performed in honor of Elton John, Billy Joel sang snippets of Foreigner’s hits when introducing the band and Smokey Robinson debuted part of a new song he wrote about Berry Gordy. The 44th annual Songwriters Hall of Fame ceremony was full of star power that included Alison Krauss, Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler and Joe Perry,…
Rdio Expands to Malaysia, Hong Kong and 5 Other Countries
On-demand music service Rdio has expanded to Asia for the first time in an expansion that covers seven countries. In addition to Malaysia and Hong Kong, Rdio is also available in Colombia, Chile, Poland, Czech Republic and Switzerland. The expansion brings Rdio’s total coverage to 31 countries on five continents. In the Americas, Rdio is…
NMPA: David Israelite, RIAA’s Cary Sherman Work to Mend Fences Between Publishers, Labels
At the National Music Publishers’ Association annual meeting yesterday at the Marriott Marquis in New York City, NMPA president David Israelite pointed out that the music industry has moved beyond the period of copyright theft and denial of the industry’s rights but there are still challenges ahead, and he urged record labels, music digital services…
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