1. Toronto Film Fest Gets in Tune with Adam Levine, Andre 3000, Alice Cooper's Cooky Manager and More

    July 24, 2013 12:18 PM EDT Adam Levine's first major film, biopics on both Jimi Hendrix and British singer Paul Potts as well as a documentary on Alice Cooper's outlandish manager will all make their premieres during the Toronto International Film Festival in Se ...

  2. Glassnote Entertainment Expands With London Office

    July 24, 2013 1:53 AM EDT Glassnote Entertainment Group, the label that's home to Phoenix and Mumford & Sons, is expanding its operations by opening an office in London to serve as its U.K. and Europe headquarters. Sam Rumney, producer of the highly influential ...

  3. James Murphy On His New (McIntosh) Sound System, Producing Arcade Fire, a Music Industry 'That Makes Zero Sense'

    July 24, 2013 12:41 AM EDT James Murphy finally has his own very own (LCD) sound system. The DFA Records co-founder has teamed up with home entertainment company McIntosh Laboratory for Despacio, a custom-built sound system that he debuted at the U.K.’s Manchester Inter ...

  4. Vivendi Focusing on Entertainment, Media Portfolios as It Sells Maroc Telecom

    July 23, 2013 7:32 AM EDT LONDON – French media and telecom conglomerate Vivendi on Tuesday took a key step towards focusing its asset portfolio more on its media and entertainment businesses as management has said it plans to do. The company said that it has entered int ...

  5. Univision Radio Cancels Eddie Sotelo's Popular 'Piolin por la Mañana' Morning Show

    July 22, 2013 11:05 PM EDT Univision Radio's longtime syndicated morning show "Piolin por la Mañana," featuring the popular veteran radio personality Eddie Sotelo, has been cancelled, according to an official with Univision Radio. Univision officials decli ...

  6. Business Matters: Streaming Drives 12% Revenue Gain in Sweden

    July 22, 2013 8:46 PM EDT Scandinavia continues to be the place where digital music's future is best taking shape.    IFPI Sweden released figures Sunday that show gains in streaming led to a 12% gain in recorded music revenues in the first half of the year. A wee ...

  7. Paul McCartney, Adele, Madonna, Radiohead, Patti Smith Among 100 Musicians to Call for Pussy Riot's Release

    July 22, 2013 12:33 PM EDT Amnesty International says that more than 100 leading musicians are calling for release of jailed members of the Russian punk group Pussy Riot. Amnesty said Monday that Adele, U2, Madonna, Yoko Ono, Radiohead, Patti Smith, Bruce Springsteen, Ke$ ...

  8. Avicii's 'Wake Me Up' Smashes 267,000 First-Week U.K. Sales, Robin Thicke Bows Atop Albums Chart

    July 22, 2013 5:56 AM EDT Swedish DJ-producer Avicii has smashed the record for the U.K.’s fastest-selling single of 2013, debuting at No. 1 yesterday (July 21) with nearly 267,000 sales of “Wake Me Up” (Positiva/PRMD). It deposed Robin Thicke’s “Blurred Lines” (Intersc ...

  9. Rush, Tragically Hip, Guess Who and Beau Dommage Honored with Canadian Stamps

    July 20, 2013 10:46 AM EDT The Canada Post has introduced a series of commemorative stamps and collectibles honoring legendary rock group, Rush. Along with the iconic band, The Tragically Hip, The Guess Who, and Beau Dommage are also being featured in the Canadian Recordi ...

  10. Universal Music's $8.5 Billion Bid: A Market Leader's Premium

    July 18, 2013 8:12 PM EDT With news that Vivendi spurned an $8.5 billion bid from SoftBank made three months ago to buy the Universal Music Group breaking after the close of Euronext Paris' trading hours, it remains to be seen if that offer will spur Vivendi’s stoc ...

  11. Robb Spitzer Named Managing Director of Live Nation China

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  12. PSY, WME Sign Exclusive Deal for Representation

    July 18, 2013 1:58 AM EDT South Korean pop star PSY has signed exclusively with WME for representation in all markets outside of his home nation. He was previously represented by CAA.   According to a statement, the agency will work to “expand his musical endeavors” and ...

  13. Business Matters: Less Piracy Through Better Products

    July 17, 2013 7:16 PM EDT Better products can help reduce digital piracy. That's one of the takeaways in the paper, " Adventures in the Netherlands ," released by Spotify on Wednesday.   A long-held belief has been that legal services need to be more conv ...

  14. Tina Turner Marries German Record Exec Erwin Bach

    July 17, 2013 12:47 PM EDT Tina Turner has tied the knot with her longtime partner Erwin Bach. Turner, 73, and Bach, 57, will celebrate their nuptials this weekend in a Buddhist ceremony at Switzerland’s Kusnacht Manor, according to Swiss media reports. The guest list f ...

  15. Jay-Z Scores 13th No. 1 Album On Billboard 200; Ciara Bows At No. 2

    July 17, 2013 11:31 AM EDT Update: July 17, 1 PM PST, Nielsen SoundScan has updated its sales figures. The new numbers have been adjusted in the story below. As reported last night (July 16), Jay-Z's Magna Carta Holy Grail album bounds in at No. 1 on the Billboard 2 ...

  16. Bono Feted With France's Highest Cultural Honor

    July 17, 2013 6:28 AM EDT Irish rocker Bono is now a French commander, after being awarded the country’s highest cultural honor in a ceremony in Paris Tuesday night. Culture minister Aurelie Filippetti made Bono a Commander of Arts and Letters in recognition of his cont ...

  17. Tomas Cookman on LAMC: ‘Years Ago Ricky Ricardo On Conga Drums Was Latin Music…’

    July 16, 2013 4:56 PM EDT Behind a black curtain in the corner of the second floor of the New Yorker Hotel is Tomas Cookman , a former punk rock musician and the founder of the Latin Alternative Music Conference (LAMC). Here he was slowly tearing down his makeshift off ...

  18. President of Spain's Author's and Publishers Society Ousted

    July 16, 2013 3:44 PM EDT Antón Reixa, the president of Spain’s Sociedad General de Autores y Editores (SGAE), had been removed from his post after just one year, following a vote by the troubled authors' and publishers’ society’s board of directors. Reixa, best k ...

  19. Tegan and Sara, Metric Make the Polaris Music Prize Short List

    July 16, 2013 1:37 PM EDT The short list for the 2013 Polaris Music Prize was revealed in Toronto on Tuesday, with Metric, METZ, Purity Ring and Tegan and Sara among the ten acts in the running for Canada's best album of the year. The announcement was made at a med ...

  20. Independent Study: Kitsuné Records

    July 16, 2013 12:19 PM EDT Label: Kitsuné Records Founded: 2002 Location: Paris Number of Employees: 10 exclusive to label, 70 total worldwide Biggest Seller: Two Door Cinema Club, Tourist History (178,000 copies U.S.) Next Release: Is Tropical, “Lover’s Cave” single, U ...

  21. Universal Music Launches 'The Vinyl Project' for 'Crowd-Funded' Re-Presses

    July 15, 2013 4:53 PM EDT What's better than a sure thing? A guaranteed sure thing, obviously. Uvinyl , the London-based "home of Universal Music vinyl," recently launched a re-pressing initiative they call The Vinyl Project which aims to be exactly that ...

  22. Spotify Reacts to Nigel Godrich and Thom Yorke

    July 15, 2013 12:54 PM EDT Spotify is spending Monday reacting to comments by producer Nigel Godrich that criticize the subscription service's business model. Godrich's statements have received attention throughout the music press, the British press and the Wal ...

  23. K-Pop's Profile Expands Exponentially, All Thanks to Psy

    July 15, 2013 11:53 AM EDT It's been a year already? As of this morning, July 15, Psy's viral phenom "Gangnam Style" is officially one year old. The video is already the most-viewed video ever on YouTube and was the first clip ever to surpass 1 billion ...

  24. Jay-Z's ‘Magna Carta Holy Grail’ Opens At British Chart Summit

    July 15, 2013 5:39 AM EDT Jay-Z landed his first solo No. 1 album on the U.K. charts yesterday (July 14) as “Magna Carta Holy Grail” (Roc Nation/Universal) debuted at the top. Robin Thicke’s “Blurred Lines” (Interscope/Universal), featuring TI and Pharrell Williams, cli ...

  25. Rubén Blades Eyeing Label Deal With Nacional Records

    July 13, 2013 6:16 PM EDT Rubén Blades, the venerable salsa singer/songwriter/actor, is eyeing the Los Angeles-based Nacional Records as a possible home for his new music, according to a source familiar with the ongoing conversations.   Blades, who spoke this week at Lat ...

  26. Backbeat: Carla Morrison at the Latin Alternative Music Conference - 'It's Not Always About the Song...'

    July 13, 2013 9:44 AM EDT Carla Morrison (white shirt, couch right) hangs out backstage at SOB's in New York with her team and band including Gil Gastelum (manager/Cosmica founder), Daniel Cerrillo, Alejandro, Jimenez, Esteban Vazquez and Alejandra Morrison-Hogan (M ...

  27. AT&T Buys Leap Wireless, Owner of Muve Music, For $1.19 Billion

    July 12, 2013 7:47 PM EDT AT&T just got itself into the music subscription business. The company announced Friday it has purchased Leap Wireless, owner of Cricket Wireless, for $1.19 billion in cash. Including debt, the deal is worth about $4 billion.   Leap Wirele ...

  28. Biz Stock Ticks: This Week's Entertainment Indices

    July 12, 2013 6:30 PM EDT In today’s . Biz Stock Ticks , a look at publicly traded entertainment stock prices over the last week by Apple, Best Buy, Facebook, Google, Live Nation, Pandora, Sony, Sirius, TransWorld and Sony over the last week. Below each 5-day stock graph ...

  29. Business Matters: Norway's Music Streaming Market Is Booming - But Could It Work In The U.S.?

    July 12, 2013 4:10 PM EDT Norway is one of those countries often held up as example of streaming potential. It's no wonder why: streaming revenues carried the country's recorded music market to a 7% gain in 2012 and are the driving force behind a 17% gain in th ...

  30. Chart Moves: Neil Diamond's New Song Debuts; Maroon 5 Returns To Hot 100 Airplay Top 10; Video Premiere Spikes Taylor Swift's 'Red' Single

    July 12, 2013 11:35 AM EDT As previously reported, Robin Thicke's "Blurred Lines," featuring T.I. + Pharrell, spends a fifth week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and Anna Kendrick's "Cups (Pitch Perfect's When I'm Gone)" reaches t ...

  31. Amazon Battles European Tax Levy on Blank CDs

    July 12, 2013 5:09 AM EDT Once upon a time, about 10 years ago, it was commonplace to put movies, music and other content on blank CDs and DVDs. This also was a moment when the entertainment universe was familiarizing itself with the disruption of file-trading, and one ...

  32. Depeche Mode Tops Hot Tours Chart With $60.8 Million Gross

    July 11, 2013 9:05 PM EDT Depeche Mode leads this week's list of Hot Tours with more than $60.8 million in ticket sales from the Delta Machine Tour that supports its most recent album of the same name, which was released in March.  The Depeche tour kicked off in ear ...

  33. Dougie Bruce and Steven Melrose to Head Epic Records U.K.

    July 11, 2013 4:21 PM EDT Dougie Bruce and Steven Melrose have been appointed joint managing directors of Epic Records U.K., reporting to Sony Music Chairman & CEO Nick Gatfield. Effective immediately, Bruce and Melrose replace previous Epic Records U.K. joint managi ...

  34. Pharrell Williams' Résumé: The History of a Hardworking N.E.R.D.

    July 11, 2013 2:49 PM EDT It's incredible to think that Pharrell Williams, the artist and entrepreneur who recently turned 40, was once fired from three different McDonald's in Virginia Beach. It all in began in 1992. That year, Pharrell helped Teddy Riley writ ...

  35. Streaming Sales Lift Scandinavian Music Market

    July 11, 2013 2:37 PM EDT The Norwegian music industry is having a good year, thanks to Spotify and other online music streaming services. Statistics, published Thursday, by the Norwegian recording industry showed streaming revenue up 66 percent in the first half of this ...

  36. 'The Voice' Executive Named Global Production Head for 'Idol' Producer FremantleMedia

    July 11, 2013 10:10 AM EDT Former Talpa Media manager Diana Buddingh takes over as global entertainment production boss of the giant that is also behind "X Factor" and "Got Talent." Dutch TV veteran Diana Buddingh, who most recently headed up internati ...

  37. Billboard Launches The Billboard Shop

    July 10, 2013 3:19 PM EDT Billboard today announced the launch of the Billboard Shop ( http://shop.billboard.com/ ), an online retail space offering a wide variety of Billboard products. Among the Billboard Shop's offerings are: A one-click way to purchase current ...

  38. Recreating Lee Hazlewood's 'Trouble Is A Lonesome Town': The Story Behind the Tribute

    July 10, 2013 11:48 AM EDT Producer Charles Normal has spent years crafting a revival of country artist Lee Hazlewood’s influential 1963 debut album, Trouble Is A Lonesome Town . Today, he finally sees his passion project come to life, thanks to help from such notable art ...

  39. France’s ‘Three-Strikes’ Hadopi Law Gets the Guillotine

    July 10, 2013 5:53 AM EDT The French government has made a U-turn on its controversial “graduated response” law, Hadopi. After mounting criticism in recent months, the anti-piracy experiment has been dumped and will be replaced with a system of automatic fines, accordi ...

  40. Australia's Hype Hip Hop Fest On Ice

    July 10, 2013 4:38 AM EDT Another Australian hip hop fest has dropped out of the game.  Organizers of Hype festival have shelved plans for its inaugural run, without having announced its line-up or itinerary. Hype had quietly positioned itself in Australia’s summer festi ...

  41. EMI Group's £1.5 Billion Pension Fund Sold to PIC, Largest Pension Insurance Buyout in U.K. History

    July 09, 2013 2:10 PM EDT Given the tumultuous recent history of EMI, members of its pension fund could count themselves fortunate that the fund will live on. As Music Week reports , the 20,000-member pension fund of the former EMI Group, worth £1.5 billion (roughly $2.2 ...

  42. Coming Soon: Daft Punk Action Figures

    July 09, 2013 12:38 PM EDT From Wilco to "The Avengers" to a President Obama parody and beyond, Daft Punk's summer hit "Get Lucky" has received cover treatment from every sector of the entertainment world. It seems everyone is eager to play with t ...

  43. Bolshoi Director General Fired Following Behind-the-Scenes Intrigue, Recent Tragedy

    July 09, 2013 11:41 AM EDT The chief of Moscow's Bolshoi Theater was fired Tuesday after months of infighting following an acid attack on its artistic director that has stained the reputation of one of the legendary names in world ballet. The departure of Anatoly Iks ...

  44. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis' Gay Equality Anthem 'Same Love' Hits Top 20 on Billboard Hot 100

    July 08, 2013 3:24 PM EDT Following the United States Supreme Court rulings on two separate gay marriage issues (June 26), Macklemore & Ryan Lewis' gay equality anthem "Same Love" jumps into the top 20 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart this week. ...

  45. Glastonbury Headline Slot Propels Mumford & Sons To U.K. Chart Peak

    July 08, 2013 6:26 AM EDT The “Glastonbury effect” shot closing night headliners Mumford & Sons back to the top of the new U.K. album chart on Sunday, also boosting sales for bill-toppers the Rolling Stones and Arctic Monkeys. On the singles chart, John Newman, the Y ...

  46. Pink Fan Ejected & Arrested After Sending ‘Bomb’ Tweet from Concert

    July 08, 2013 5:20 AM EDT An Australian teenager is facing criminal charges after he Tweeted about bringing a “bomb” to a Pink concert. The sixteen-year-old was ejected from Pink’s Sunday night show at Rod Laver Arena after he sent the ill-advised Tweet. As the Philadelp ...

  47. Michael Parkinson, Celebrated British Chat Show Presenter, Diagnosed with Cancer

    July 08, 2013 1:35 AM EDT Sir Michael Parkinson, the legendary British chat show host who has championed countless musicians, has prostate cancer. The 78-year-old broadcaster, who is affectionately known in his homeland as “Parky,” was diagnosed with the disease in May f ...

  48. Shazam Gets $40 Million Investment from Carlos Slim's America Movil

    July 07, 2013 7:46 PM EDT Shazam has entered into a strategic partnership with, and received an investment from, Mexican telecommunications company America Movil. Part of a conglomerate of companies owned by businessman Carlos Slim Helu, America Movil has put $40 mill ...

  49. Pussy Riot Lawyers Seek to Reverse Conviction

    July 05, 2013 1:01 PM EDT The appeal will be based on the band's attorney's argument that the hooliganism verdict was "illegal." Lawyers representing the two imprisoned members of Pussy Riot are set to launch an appeal to Russia’s Supreme Court to rev ...

  50. Stones Top Weekly Hot Tours, Net $21.3 Million Over Five Shows – Streisand Close Behind with $18.3 Million

    July 05, 2013 11:14 AM EDT The Rolling Stones' 50 & Counting Tour tops the weekly Hot Tours recap with the final box office stats reported from the legendary group's two-month trek through North America. The latest batch of shows reported brought in $21.3 mi ...

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