It’s like a national holiday with very little warning, celebrated or reviled depending on what news the day brings. This year, the media and music industry celebrated earlier than expected Monday when Coachella organizers released the lineup for the 2012 festival, a two-week affair that will repeat the weekends of April 13-15 and April 20-22 [...]
Looking to expand its foothold beyond the AM-FM dial, radio giant Clear Channel has tapped entertainment industry veteran John Sykes to lead a push into television, digital and live events. Clear Channel, the nation’s biggest owner of stations with 850 outlets across the country including KIIS-FM, KOST-FM and KBIG-FM in Los Angeles, wants to leverage [...]
Much to its dismay, the music industry has seen sales plummet over the last several years for various reasons such as illegal downloads, a tanking economy, and shift from traditional to digital media. According to Forrester Research, total revenue from U.S. record sales in 1999 was over $14.6 billion, and subsequently fallen to $6.3 billion [...]
When Dave Grohl speaks, the world listens. And rightfully so. The guy is incredible. Below is copy that has been taken from a recent interview with Dave Grohl where he talks about his admiration of Adele. Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl has claimed that if all albums were as good as Adele’s ’21′ then the [...]
Just over a year ago, Trevor Powers was still a student at Boise State University, working a retail job at a local Urban Outfitters and saving up to record his debut album at a friends’ home studio. He’d been writing songs for months — hazy adolescent memories and thoughts about anxiety and young love. He [...]
he UK record industry has called for more Government protection against online piracy – despite legitimate downloads soaring. According to figures released by music industry body the BPI, digital album sales rose 26.6% to 26.6 million which helped balance a large drop in CD sales. Combined sales of digital and physical albums fell by 5.6% [...]
Soundscan’s sales year doesn’t end until Jan. 1, but current year-to-year comparisons have album sales for 2011 ahead of comparable 2010 business. OK, it’s only by a whisker of 1 percent. But it is welcome news in an industry where album sales for 2010 were down 13 percent from 2009. And prior to that they’d [...]
Steve Jobs introduced the iPod in 2001, in front a small audience, followed by a major announcement of iTunes, which lead to one of the greatest music revolutions in history. iTunes, paired with millions of iPods, iPhones, and iPads, transformed the distribution, consumption, and creation of music around the world, and made material music such [...]
Here’s the music industry’s version of a man-bites-dog story: Big label signs big artist to a rational deal. In this case, it’s Madonna’s new pact with Universal Music Group. The New York Post says she’ll get around $1 million an album for a three-album deal, and music industry folks say the paper has its numbers [...]
It’s no wonder that British neo-soul powerhouse Adele couldn’t stop her voice from disintegrating over the past year — after all, the 23-year-old’s robust instrument probably strained through almost every iPod, coffee shop and car-radio speaker in North America at some point over the course of her mammoth 12 months. In an age where nothing [...]
