1. Led By Daft Punk, UK Singles Sales On Track for Record Year

    July 05, 2013 8:22 AM EDT   Strong sales of digital singles during the first half of the year look set to make 2013 another record year for music singles sales in the U.K., the Official Charts Company is predicting. "2013 looks to become the biggest year for singles ...

  2. Samsung Reports Record Profits, Shares Tumble on Smartphone Outlook

    July 05, 2013 8:05 AM EDT Samsung Electronics Co. reported record quarterly profit Friday but its shares tumbled on doubts its mainstay smartphone business can maintain rapid growth. Samsung Electronics Co. on Friday estimated its April-June operating profit at a record ...

  3. Bernie Nolan, Singer with Sister Group The Nolans, Dies at 52

    July 05, 2013 1:06 AM EDT Bernadette Nolan, a member of singing sister act The Nolans, has died of cancer aged 52. The singer's management agency, Urban Associates, said in a statement that Nolan died Thursday surrounded by her family. Universally known as Bernie, N ...

  4. Australian EDM Fest Stereosonic Expands, David Guetta & Armin van Buuren Headline

    July 04, 2013 5:58 AM EDT Australia’s Stereosonic has raised the stakes in the country’s EDM festival scene with an expanded two-day show across five cities, and a pumping line-up which includes David Guetta, Armin van Buuren, Calvin Harris, Axwell and Empire of the Sun. ...

  5. Why Japan’s Music Industry Is Booming… For Now

    July 03, 2013 2:45 PM EDT After the IFPI dropped the bombshell ( .pdf report ) that Japan is catching up to the United States and could surpass it as the world’s most valuable music market, people have been trying to figure out why that might be. Japan has 41 percent as ...

  6. Motorhead's European Tour Scrapped As Lemmy Recovers from Hematoma

    July 03, 2013 5:13 AM EDT Lemmy Kilmister is fighting fit after suffering a post-operative hematoma. He’s “alive, breathing, talking, f**king, drinking, eating, reading,” his management team recently reported. But he’s not well enough to hit the road, and his band Motorh ...

  7. Smiley Culture Died from Self-Inflicted Wound: U.K. Inquest

    July 03, 2013 4:35 AM EDT A British inquest has found that reggae star Smiley Culture died from a self-inflicted stab wound to the chest during a 2011 police raid. The suicide verdict from an inquest jury Tuesday matched an account from police, who had said the London-bo ...

  8. Universal Publishing, APRA/AMCOS Unveil ‘Groundbreaking’ Digital Licensing Pact For Asia

    July 03, 2013 3:16 AM EDT Australasian collecting societies APRA and AMCOS have struck an agreement to represent Universal Music Publishing in licensing the music publishing giant’s digital rights throughout Asia, excluding Japan. The multi-territory arrangement is non-e ...

  9. Deezer Partners with Foursquare to Reward Concertgoing

    July 02, 2013 6:01 PM EDT Music subscription service Deezer has forged a partnership with location-based service Foursquare that will reward Deezer subscribers for checking in to concerts.   Here's how it works: a fan likes Deezer on Foursquare and then checks into ...

  10. Andy Van, Australian EDM Veteran, Launches Music App for iPad

    July 02, 2013 4:58 AM EDT Australian EDM artist and label chief Andy Van has enjoyed a thumping career. He’s had a No. 1 in the U.K. with his act Madison Avenue, his international touring career is going strong with his current group Vandalism, and the label he co-founde ...

  11. Wisin & Yandel Named Newest Coaches on 'La Voz…Mexico'

    July 01, 2013 6:13 PM EDT Reggaeton stars Wisin & Yandel have been named coaches for the third season of the Mexico's popular version of "The Voice."   The Puerto Rican natives, who have collaborated with some of the biggest names in music such as Enri ...

  12. Rolling Stones' Glastonbury Set Draws 2.5 Million Viewers to BBC

    July 01, 2013 3:49 PM EDT The Rolling Stones' debut turn at the U.K.'s landmark Glastonbury music festival garnered a 2.5 million peak audience for the BBC on Saturday night. Overall, the coverage scored an average of 2.1 million TV viewers. The Stones' s ...

  13. Warner Music Group Closes on Acquisition of Parlophone Label Group

    July 01, 2013 12:03 PM EDT Warner Music Group, the major label acquired by Len Blavatnick and Access Industries in 2011, has completed its acquisition of the Parlophone Label Group from Universal Music Group in a deal announced in May . The deal was closed for £487 milli ...

  14. Apple Files for 'iWatch' Trademark in Japan

    July 01, 2013 9:20 AM EDT Apple Inc. has applied for a trademark in Japan for "iWatch," indicating it may be proceeding with rumored plans to produce a smart wristwatch. A document obtained Monday from the Japan Patent Office's website said the application ...

  15. Tom Odell & Icona Pop Rule U.K. Sales Charts

    July 01, 2013 5:02 AM EDT Tom Odell, the British singer-songwriter who won the Critics’ Choice title at the 2013 BRIT Awards, opened at No. 1 on the new U.K. album chart yesterday (June 30) with his debut set “Long Way Down” (Columbia/Sony Music Entertainment). Meanwhile ...

  16. Drama In Aussie Politics Sees Peter Garrett Quit, New Communications Minister Appointed

    July 01, 2013 1:21 AM EDT In a wild and dramatic five days of politics Down Under, Australia has a new minister for communications, its culture minister has added another portfolio and Peter Garrett – the former frontman of Midnight Oil who became a prominent Labor Party ...

  17. IFPI’s Frances Moore Emphasizes Growth, Challenges at Filaie/IFPI Latin American Meeting

    June 28, 2013 5:43 PM EDT Latin America’s status as the fastest growing region in terms of digital growth in 2012 and the second fastest growing region in terms of performance rights income were central points of the speech delivered by IFPI’s Frances Moore at the Filaie ...

  18. Kylie Minogue To Receive Prestigious Australian Live Entertainment Award

    June 28, 2013 6:23 AM EDT Australia’s “pop princess” Kylie Minogue is to receive the highest honor in her country’s live entertainment industry – the JC Williamson Award. The artist will be feted at the Helpmann Awards ceremony July 29 at the Sydney Opera House. She join ...

  19. RED Distribution Signs [PIAS] Music Group for North American Distribution Deal

    June 27, 2013 5:13 PM EDT RED Distribution has signed the [PIAS] Music Group, a leading European independent label and distributor, to an exclusive distribution agreement covering both digital and physical product for North America. As part of the deal, in Canada, RED wi ...

  20. SFX IPO: Robert Sillerman's Growing 'EMC' Empire

    June 27, 2013 4:16 PM EDT SFX Entertainment, the company that’s been snapping up global electronic music businesses since June of last year, filed for an IPO on Monday that revealed its executive team, potential challenges, and several of its next moves. In addition to ...

  21. Simon Cowell's Syco, Fremantle Media to Launch 'Afghanistan's Got Talent'

    June 27, 2013 12:16 PM EDT Afghanistan's Got Talent , a local version of the TV talent competition, will launch on regional channel 1TV Media later this year. Afghanistan's Got Talent will be the 55th local adaptation of the show, coming after recent local launc ...

  22. BMI Latin Promotes Joey Mercado in Puerto Rico, Adds Carolina Arenas in New York

    June 27, 2013 10:29 AM EDT Delia Orjuela, Vice President for Latin Writer/Publisher Relations today announced personnel changes at BMI Latin “to meet the growing demand for Latin repertoire." In Puerto Rico, 17-year BMI veteran Joey Mercado was promoted to Senior Dir ...

  23. U.K. Ad Watchdog Cautions AEG Live Over Ad for 'One-off' Kanye West London Show

    June 26, 2013 5:00 PM EDT Britain's advertising watchdog on Wednesday issued a caution to concert and live event powerhouse AEG Live for promoting a "one-off" Kanye West show in London, to which it later added two more gigs. AEG had in an email promoted th ...

  24. Isle of Man Music Festival Cancelled Amid Weak Ticket Sales

    June 26, 2013 1:26 PM EDT Despite the lure of crowd-pleasers Primal Scream, Paloma Faith and Johnny Marr, organizers of the inaugural Isle of Man festival have canceled the event amid disappointing ticket sales. The festival on the small island located just off the west ...

  25. Justin Bieber's Manager Scooter Braun Buys Romanian Talent Format

    June 26, 2013 12:06 PM EDT Scooter Braun, the music management phenom whose client list includes Justin Bieber, Carley Rae Jepsen and The Wanted, has teamed with Canadian production group Marble Media to adapt the Romanian music talent show format "Mom Made Me A Star ...

  26. BMG CEO Hartwig Masuch on the Rolling Stones Deal (Q&A)

    June 26, 2013 11:12 AM EDT BMG  today announced  that the Germany-based rights management company will represent the Rolling Stones' post-1983 catalog and and will also track payments from the duo’s previous copyrights owned by ABKCO (1963-1971) and EMI Music Publis ...

  27. BMG To Represent Rolling Stones' Mick Jagger and Keith Richards' Post-1983 Publishing

    June 26, 2013 9:00 AM EDT *This story has been correction appended.   BMG today announced the rights management company will represent the Rolling Stones' Mick Jagger and Keith Richards' post-1983 music publishing catalog. ABKCO, however, still owns the 1963- ...

  28. First Official 2014 World Cup Song Released by Coca-Cola in Brazil

    June 25, 2013 7:44 PM EDT Less than a week before demonstrators in the streets of Brazil began protesting the high costs of hosting the 2014 FIFA World Cup, among other grievances, Coca-Cola sent a more positive message about the international event out to Brazilian socc ...

  29. U.K. Music Content Provider LoveLive Buys American Video Producer Show Cobra

    June 25, 2013 3:57 PM EDT U.K.-based music content specialist LoveLive has acquired the U.S. entertainment media business Show Cobra to bolster its ambitions to expand into America. The acquisition will help LoveLive's goal to become the leading independent player i ...

  30. Anghami, Middle East Music Streaming App, Reaches 2 Million Downloads

    June 25, 2013 1:25 PM EDT Middle Eastern music streaming application Anghami has just crossed the two million download mark, according to a release sent out by the Lebanon-based company.. Launched in 2012, the service is a mobile-only music application targeting markets ...

  31. The Eagles Catalog Available at Subscription Services

    June 25, 2013 11:03 AM EDT One less band is unavailable to the millions of people who pay to access music. As of Tuesday, the Eagles catalog can be found at music subscription services such as Spotify, Rhapsody, Rdio and Deezer.   The nine titles available for streaming i ...

  32. Vodafone Announces $10.2 Billion Bid for Kabel Deutschland

    June 24, 2013 1:20 PM EDT Britain's Vodafone PLC has launched a takeover bid for Germany's biggest cable operator, Kabel Deutschland, as part of its push to dominate media services in its biggest market. Vodafone, a British cellphone company with wide internati ...

  33. Kanye West’s 'Yeezus' Arrives At No. 1 in U.K., Robin Thicke Extends Singles Chart Streak

    June 24, 2013 6:59 AM EDT As Robin Thicke’s “Blurred Lines” (Interscope/Universal), featuring TI and Pharrell Williams, became the U.K.’s second-bestselling single of 2013 and started a fourth week at No. 1 yesterday (June 23), Kanye West scored his second chart-topping ...

  34. Kanye West’s ‘Yeezus’ Rises To No. 1 in Australia Following Sales Chart Error

    June 24, 2013 5:36 AM EDT Kanye West’s “Yeezus” has enjoyed some divine intervention Down Under. The rapper’s sixth studio album has been promoted from 2-1 after charts-compiler ARIA admitted a “data error” had rendered the initial sales chart inaccurate. “Yeezus” (DEF/U ...

  35. France's Proposed Smartphone Tax Could Support Ailing Music Retailers

    June 24, 2013 2:17 AM EDT France’s proposed new tax on smartphones may end up helping the music industry. On Friday morning, culture minister Aurelie Filippetti discussed the proposed new 1% tax on smartphones, tablets, e-readers and computers and said the money raised c ...

  36. EDM Biz 2013: CAA'S Rob Light, SFX's Shelly Finkel, Beatport Matthew Adell Discuss the EDM Explosion

    June 21, 2013 6:35 PM EDT "I think this is comparable to the generation shift of the '60s," CAA's managing partner and music head Rob Light told the audience during his keynote at the EDM Biz conference in Las Vegas yesterday. The annual conference ...

  37. Rob Stringer Named UJA Visionary Of The Year As Adele, John Mayer, Doug Morris, Others Pay Tribute

    June 21, 2013 3:32 PM EDT "It's weird being called a visionary when you've got Neil Diamond in the room, the guy from Samsung here," said Columbia Records chairman Rob Stringer, nodding to Jay-Z in his acceptance of the UJA-Federation of New York&# ...

  38. Deezer CEO on U.S. Launch: ‘We Are Considering’

    June 21, 2013 1:35 PM EDT It could be this year. It could be next year. That’s how Deezer CEO Axel Dauchez surmises his Frenchg subscription service’s entry into the United States. The Paris-based Deezer has embarked on an aggressive international roll out which now see ...

  39. P!nk Tops Hot Tours Chart For Second Straight Week, Grosses $30.7 Million

    June 20, 2013 2:18 PM EDT P!nk earns the No. 1 Hot Tours ranking for the second week in a row with $30.7 million in grosses reported from the European leg of her world tour.  Last week, ticket totals from the tour's North American leg dominated the Hot Tours tally w ...

  40. Kim Dotcom on European Servers Deleting Megaupload Info: 'Largest Data Massacre in the History of the Internet'

    June 20, 2013 10:28 AM EDT Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom said Thursday he was "in tears" after a European company deleted all the data it was hosting from his shuttered file-sharing site. Netherlands-based LeaseWeb announced it had deleted all Megaupload files f ...

  41. Sony CEO on Calls for An Entertainment Spin-Off: 'It Needs To Be Examined'

    June 20, 2013 4:56 AM EDT Sony CEO Kaz Hirai told shareholders at their annual meeting that entertainment is a vital part of the company, but that the board will consider the proposal from hedge fund Third Point to sell a 15 to 20% stake in the profit-making division. De ...

  42. Sean 'Diddy' Combs Pitches Music Cable Channel Revolt At Cannes

    June 19, 2013 4:15 PM EDT (This story originally appeared in Adweek) CANNES, France—After holding court Tuesday night on the Croisette with media and advertising moguls (and an afterparty or two), Sean "Diddy" Combs was all business today, taking the main sta ...

  43. Live Nation Acquires Majority Stake in Baltics Region Promoter BDG Music

    June 19, 2013 1:52 PM EDT Live Nation Entertainment has acquired a majority stake in BDG Music Group, the Baltic region's largest concert promotion company, according to Live Nation. The group will retain its current management team, although upon completion of the ...

  44. A2IM's Indie Week Kicks Off With 'Guy Who Put Out the Lumineers & Guy Who Put Out Mumford & Sons'

    June 18, 2013 7:39 PM EDT A2IM, the American Association of Independent Music, kicked off its annual indie week event today with panels on publishing and neighboring rights. Nearly 500 members are in New York from across the U.S. and the world, including missions from Au ...

  45. From the Magazine: How to Exponentially Increase the Digital Music Services Market

    June 18, 2013 1:44 PM EDT This except from this week's Billboard magazine (cover date June 22, 2013) entitled "Easy Does It" is an in-depth look at the best ways for digital music services to exponentially increase market share. Also in this issue: Apple&# ...

  46. Daniel Loeb Ups Sony Stake, Presses On for Entertainment IPO

    June 18, 2013 6:43 AM EDT Activist investor Daniel Loeb's hedge fund Third Point has slightly increased its stake in Sony Corp. as it continues to push for an IPO of the conglomerate's entertainment business. Loeb has sent a second letter to Sony CEO Kaz Hirai ...

  47. Tame Impala, Sia, Timomatic Win Big at APRA Music Awards

    June 18, 2013 5:47 AM EDT Tame Impala, Sia Furler, Timomatic, 360 and Hilltop Hoods were among the big winners Monday night at the APRA Music Awards in Melbourne. Kevin Parker’s psychedelic rockers Tame Impala added to their impressive collection of industry-plaudits wit ...

  48. Harrison Craig Wins Australia’s 'The Voice,' Finale Ratings Solid

    June 18, 2013 2:48 AM EDT Australia’s finale of “The Voice” was the most-watched show Monday night Down Under. But its ratings were well-down on last year’s massive grand final viewing figures. Some 2.307 million viewers in the five metro cities tuned-in to watch teenage ...

  49. Business Matters: Why An Artist Like Jay-Z Would Partner with Samsung

    June 17, 2013 8:26 PM EDT It's no wonder that Jay-Z signed a partnership deal with the electronics giant Samsung that's rumored to be worth $20 million. The Korean company spends an incredible amount on advertising every year.   Samsung Electronics' ad ...

  50. Nonprofit Pvblic Helps Justin Bieber-supported Charity Raise $400K, Working with Alicia Keys, Ne-Yo

    June 17, 2013 6:22 PM EDT Earlier this year, when Pencils of Promise was looking for a marketing partner to help spread the word about its annual Justin Bieber-supported Schools 4 All fund-raising campaign, the international education organization turned to the nonprofit ...

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