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DJs and electronic dance music take Vegas by storm
Casino nightclubs that a few years ago were devoted to hip-hop now compete to sign dance acts to million-dollar contracts, and they market these once invisible musicians as superstars. Along the Las...
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Music industry battles ‘bots’ siphoning concert tickets
As the summer concert season starts, music fans and the industry that serves them, have a common enemy in New York. And in Russia. And in India. That enemy is the bot. “Bots,” computer programs used by...
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Beyoncé’s latest album a big hit thanks to social media
The release of a blockbuster album has historically come with a few standard marketing moves. Flood the radio with an early single. Book as many TV appearances as possible. Line up partnerships with...
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Country music booming with bigger, younger audiences
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — On the radio, it has displaced Top 40 as America’s most popular musical format. Its biggest star is Taylor Swift, a 24-year-old phenomenon who last year earned more from music than...
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All-Christmas radio starts earlier and catches on
WEST ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — It was still two weeks before Halloween when WEZW-FM, the easy-listening standby of Cape May County, pushed the Christmas button. Not to miss out on the merriment, two rival...
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YouTube launches paid music-streaming service
For nearly a decade, YouTube has been a smorgasbord of free music online, making just about every song imaginable — Top 40 hits, bedroom ukulele covers — available at a click. But soon the site will...
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Rise of digital music prompts change in release of albums
The music industry’s global trade group has decided on Fridays as the official release day for new albums, everywhere.
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Music lawyer rocks the industry again
Richard Busch, described as “a street fighter” by one client, doesn’t mind being an outsider in the music world as long as he’s connecting with juries and winning important cases.
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SoundCloud adding 20,000 indie labels
SoundCloud’s deal with the independents is seen as a step toward showing it could generate money for the artists and their labels.
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Old songbook could put ‘Happy Birthday’ in public domain
The “Happy Birthday” melody was first published in 1893 as “Good Morning to All,” written by Mildred Hill and her sister Patty, a kindergarten teacher in Kentucky.
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Music industry waits anxiously to see if Adele streams new album
The artist’s choice on whether to stream her new album will reflect the music industry’s larger debate over how fully to embrace the format.
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No streaming for Adele’s new album ‘25’
Adele, Taylor Swift and Beyoncé are viewed as among the very few superstar acts with enough leverage to set the terms for how they want their music to be consumed.
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Beyoncé’s latest album a big hit thanks to social media
The release of a blockbuster album has historically come with a few standard marketing moves. Flood the radio with an early single. Book as many TV appearances as possible. Line up partnerships with...
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Country music booming with bigger, younger audiences
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — On the radio, it has displaced Top 40 as America’s most popular musical format. Its biggest star is Taylor Swift, a 24-year-old phenomenon who last year earned more from music than...
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All-Christmas radio starts earlier and catches on
WEST ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — It was still two weeks before Halloween when WEZW-FM, the easy-listening standby of Cape May County, pushed the Christmas button. Not to miss out on the merriment, two rival...
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YouTube launches paid music-streaming service
For nearly a decade, YouTube has been a smorgasbord of free music online, making just about every song imaginable — Top 40 hits, bedroom ukulele covers — available at a click. But soon the site will...
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Country music booming with bigger, younger audiences
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — On the radio, it has displaced Top 40 as America’s most popular musical format. Its biggest star is Taylor Swift, a 24-year-old phenomenon who last year earned more from music than...
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All-Christmas radio starts earlier and catches on
WEST ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — It was still two weeks before Halloween when WEZW-FM, the easy-listening standby of Cape May County, pushed the Christmas button. Not to miss out on the merriment, two rival...
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YouTube launches paid music-streaming service
For nearly a decade, YouTube has been a smorgasbord of free music online, making just about every song imaginable — Top 40 hits, bedroom ukulele covers — available at a click. But soon the site will...
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‘We Shall Overcome’ copyright is challenged
The lawsuit cites a study by a musicologist stating this version of the song is essentially the same as the one published in 1948, whose copyright — if it was ever valid — would have expired in 1976.
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