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Business Matters: Vevo Should Pay Up, Say Songs Music, Downtown, TuneCore
Vevo made headlines last week when the video service announced it had generated $150 million in revenue in 2011. A week later some independent music publishers are saying it’s time they got their share. Also, Flingo plans to use the $7 million it has raised in Series A funding from August Capital to build out the infrastructure for its automatic content recognition technology. And comedian Louis CK proves that young People will pay for content through his recent video offering.
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Nicki Minaj to Preview New Song at Grammys, Perform at NBA All-Star Game
With her second studio album set for this April, hip-hop diva Nicki Minaj has announced a wave of news, including her next single, Grammy plans, and a performance at the 2012 NBA All-Star Game.
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Guild of Music Supervisors Expands Awards Ceremony For Film, TV, Games
The Guild Of Music Supervisors will hand out awards in nine different categories at a brunch prior to the Grammy Awards, honoring music supervisors for film, television and games.
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Drake, Feist, Nickelback Lead 2012 Juno Award Nominations
Drake, Feist and Nickelback were some of the big names leading the 2012 Juno Award nominations announced today. Each artist received four nominations, while Dan Mangan, Hedley and City and Colour also received four nods.
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Gabrielle Peluso Promoted to General Manager @ Def Jam Recordings
Island Def Jam President/COO Steve Bartels announced Gabrielle Peluso would be taking over as General Manager, Def Jam Recordings, a promotion from her prior position as Senior Vice President, Video Promotions at Island Def Jam Music Group.
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Backbeat: Beyonce Steps Out, Nas Has Wings at Jay-Z's Carnegie Hall After Party @ 40/40
Last night, after the first of two charity concerts at Carnegie Hall, Jay-Z celebrated at his NYC nightclub, The 40/40 club, with wife and new mom Beyoncé, who made her first public appearance since giving birth, as well as rapper Nas, BET's Stephen Hill, Roc Nation's Rich Kleiman, Def Jam's Shawn "Pecas" Costner of Def Jam and many more.
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ReDigi Successfully Fends Off EMI's Preliminary Injunction To Shutter Site
ReDigi, an upstart digital company that sells "used" digital music, has announced that it has successfully fended off the recording industry's motion for a preliminary injunction.
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Four Tet, Fever Ray, Terry Riley Featured On Blonde Redhead's Japan Benefit Comp Out Today
Today marks the release of "We Are The Works In Progress," an album to benefit Japanese disaster relief featuring such artists as Terry Riley, Four Tet, Fever Ray, Deerhunter, Interpol and David Sylvain and Ryuchi Sakamototo performing alternate and demo versions of songs. The album was compiled and organized by Kazu Makino of Blonde Redhead.
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Grammy Awards Protest Planned By Musicians During Sunday's Show
In an ongoing effort to reinstate 31 categories that were eliminated from the Grammy Awards, musicians are planning a protest and a musical showcase on the same day as 54th installment of the awards show on Feb. 12, according to a spokesman for the recording artists who filed a lawsuit last year against the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences.
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Business Matters: Megaupload Aftershocks Continue as BTJunkie Voluntarily Shuts Down
File-sharing site BTJunkie shut down of its own accord, following in the footsteps of FileSonic and FileServe in willingly removing itself from the fray in the wake of the highly-publicized Megaupload and Pitate Bay legal actions. Elsewhere, the death of SOPA leads to even more questions about Internet law, and Google+ keeps growing but still lags behind.
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This Week In Billboard History: The Day The Music Died (& The Show Went On); Motown Goes Pat Boone
During the week of Feb. 6 in Billboard History: The day the music died: when a plane carrying Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and Big Bopper tragically crashed, the show went on -- for which Bobby Vee was grateful. Also, Motown goes country, jazz and Pat Boone; and "High School Musical" has "Glee"-like numbers pre-"Glee."
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Backbeat: Vince Gill, Steve Winwood, Nashville Mayor Karl Dean at Artist Growth Launch Party
The Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville played host to the launch of Artist Growth, a suite of cloud-based artist management tools for web and mobile. The launch brought out stars from Vince Gill and Steve Winwood to Artist Growth CEO Matt Urmy and Nashville Mayor Karl Dean.
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Super Bowl Spurs Sales for Madonna's New (and Old) Material
After only three days in release, "Luvin'" has sold over 100,000 downloads in the U.S., while her "Celebration" greatest hits album sold between 13,000-14,000 download copies (up from a couple hundred units the week previous).
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Madonna's Super Bowl Performance Caused 10,245 Tweets Per Second
Madonna’s performance during halftime of the Super Bowl produced 10,245 tweets per second, one of the busiest moments in Twitter history. The halftime performance topped recent events regarded for their online reaction.
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Backbeat: Windish Agency, Ticketfly Throw L.A. Taco Party For Touring Execs @ New Echo Park Digs
The Windish Agency, in partnership with Ticketfly, hosted a party for music execs to celebrate the company new office in Echo Park, Angeles, with Windish prez Tom Windish, Goldenvoice VP Elliot Lefko, Live Nation's Shane Shuhart and more. in addition to its new L.A. digs, the firmhad 17 new hires over the past 12 months and expanded it event production and sponsorship initiatives for its roster of more than 550 acts.
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