And The Top Selling Female Performer (So Far) Of 2015 Is…
Well according to the largest scalper…er… “reseller” ticket marketplace in the world, StubHub, the numbers are in for the year to date. Since her 1989 world tour was announced, Taylor Swift tickets have been selling fast, and then, of course, resold even faster on StubHub (because clearly […]
Read moreWhitney Houston Producer Cheated Investors out of $8 Million
A producer who worked with Whitney Houston and Kenny G has been found guilty of… falsely telling investors he was putting their money in African diamond mines.
Producer Charles Huggins duped investors out of over $8 million dollars. Instead of investing the money, he […]
Buy a Snoop Dogg Vaporizer and Get a Free Album…
Snoop Dogg’s new album Bush is now out. Bush is Snoop’s 13th solo album, and he’s no longer going by “Snoop Lion”.<!-/*
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How To Objectively Pick Your Best Songs (Or Find Out If You Just Completely Suck)
You know how everyone comes up to you after your shows and they tell you how great you were? That feels nice doesn’t it. I sure love it. But how many of them are being genuine or just being good friends? Because I remember talking to a […]
Read morePRS Says They Brought in $1 Billion in Revenue Last Year…
PRS for Music has reported 2014 yearly income for both PRS and the Mechanical-Copyright Protection Society.
The combined income was £664.3 million ($1 billion). This is a one percent rise from the previous year.
Revenue from public performance of music was £168.3m ($260 […]
Read moreFans Spend HOW MUCH Time On Their Phones At Concerts?!
We all assumed it. But now there’s data to back up our hunches. Ticketfly commissioned Harris Poll to survey concert going adults to find out how much they use their phones at shows.
Some of the biggest findings show that 31% of adults ages 18-34 use […]
Grooveshark.io Is Now a Globally-Ranked Website…
This is happening just 6 days after Grooveshark.com was brutally ripped down, and two days after grooveshark.io appeared in its place…
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Court Rules That Pandora Doesn’t Have to Pay ASCAP More Money…
Songwriters and artists are already pretty angry at Pandora for using whatever means necessary to pay creators less money. In fact, the FCC just approved Pandora’s plan to buy a traditional radio station in attempt to lower royalties even more.
Pandora has just scored another victory.
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Grooveshark Is Baaaaaaaaaaaack….
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How Do You Keep Your Audience Engaged During Live Shows?
Last week I saw Dan Deacon at the Crescent Ballroom in Phoenix. I was really looking forward to the show. I saw him play the same venue in 2012, and it was the most engaged audience I have ever seen at a concert.
Dan Deacon released […]