5,000+ Live, Free Outdoor Music-Making Events to Launch Summer in Over 80 U.S. Cities Make Music Day, the annual global celebration of music occurring on the summer solstice, returns this year on Friday, June 21st with over 5,000 free outdoor…
Groups Representing Both Artists & Labels To Collaborate On Effort The Artist Rights Alliance, SAG-AFTRA, RIAA, and A2IM announce a new collaboration in support of building a “more robust and effective system of digital attribution and credits.” For the first…
Sister Sledge, David Rodigan, Jurrasic 5’s Soup Presents: The Fullee Love Collective to Lead Festival; Audio-Technica Named Headline Sponsor for UK Crate Diggers, presented by Discogs, the world’s largest music Community, Database, and Marketplace, in association with Audio-Technica, a Japanese…
Sound Royalties stepping up to help PledgeMusic artists who didn’t get paid Following recent reports of music crowdfunding site PledgeMusic missing vital payments to artists, Sound Royalties is stepping in to help the creatives who have been left without the…
Viewership increased by +2 million viewers with time-shifted and out-of-home viewing The 61st Annual GRAMMY Awards increased viewership from 19.96 million to 22 million viewers, a jump of +10% when live plus seven-day time-shifted and live plus same day out-of-home…
GRAMMY Museum presents Take Me Out to the Ball Game: Popular Music and the National Pastime Whether it’s the national anthem played before every game, the music ballplayers select to accent their “walk up” to home plate, or the seventh…
Media chain is saved for second time in six years Struggling European physical media chain HMV has been saved from bankruptcy by Canadian retailer Sunrise Records owner Doug Putman. One hundred stores will be purchased out of administration, but 27…
Combination creates world’s largest entertainment company with 100+ million listeners Sirius XM Holdings Inc. has announced that it has completed its acquisition of Pandora Media, Inc. With the transaction complete, SiriusXM is the world’s largest audio entertainment company with strong,…
Domestic customers with an Apple Music subscription will be able to stream 50 million songs, playlists and music videos beginning February 1st On American Airlines, Apple Music subscribers can listen to curated playlists, such as The New Chicago, with no…
CEO Alex Heiche will be operating out of Nashville full time Music industry specialty finance firm Sound Royalties has announced that it has now opened a location in Nashville, Tennessee to better serve the creatives in the city’s thriving music…
Epic Rights Roster Includes KISS, Aerosmith, Def Leppard, Billy Joel, David Bowie, Zac Brown Band, Woodstock Festival Universal Music Group’s (UMG) Bravado, the leading global consumer, lifestyle and brand management company, has acquired Epic Rights, a boutique merchandise and branding…
All will be unveiled during Winter NAMM 2019 from January 23-27th in Anaheim, CA Last year was a tough year for Gibson, one of the largest guitar manufacturers in the world. The company was saved from bankruptcy and skipped Winter…