Over the last year, as the economy and the music industry lingered, many asked where the money was . Indeed , a hot topic at…
One cannot imagine traveling to Nashville without being exposed to country music. And Nashville is indeed a “Music City”. Artists like Garth Brooks, Shania…
Founded in 1901, the National Association of Music Merchants (NAMM) is the trade association of the international music products industry and boasts memberships from 9000…
Now that the Ticketmaster/Live Nation merger, albeit with certain amendments to the original proposal, has received the blessings of the US Department of Justice, the…
Music seems to be present everywhere today. We frequently notice iPods, iPhones, Blackberrys, and identify ringtones. However, the statistical record continues to disappoint. The Nielsen…
After almost thirty years without reforming the regulations that govern the use of endorsements to promote or advertise a product, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC)…
Terry McBride is the CEO of the Nettwerk Music Group, Canada’s leading privately owned record label and artist management company. Nettwerk is responsible for managing…
“Thus, the task is not so much to see what no one yet has seen, but to think what nobody yet has thought about that…
Since the beginning of the recorded music industry, record companies have been subjected to a constant and bitter recrimination from artists all over the world,…
There are countless job positions in the music industry: Managers, Attorneys, Concert Promoters, Publicist, Agents, Producers, Tour Managers, Radio Broadcasters, Business Managers, and the list…
On November 4th a group of television broadcasters came together to file a class-action anti-trust complaint against performance rights organization, SESAC. The Television Music Licensing…
On October 14th, 2009, the performing rights society ASCAP, and all the publishers, songwriters, and composers it represents, suffered a major blow when a federal…
It has been four years since Lala, a digital music streaming service, premiered. The company will soon be releasing a new iPhone app that will…
In February of this year the House of Representatives Judiciary Committee approved a bill that would implement a new royalty fee on terrestrial radio broadcasters…