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The Orchard Hires Michael Black As SVP, Client & Sales Group
February 22, 2012 – Publishing | Retail | Executive Turntable
Independent music and video distributor The Orchard hired Michael Black, formerly of ADA, as Senior Vice President of their Client & Sales Group, announced CEO Brad Nevin. » Full Story

A2IM To Produce First Ever Independent Music Awards
February 22, 2012 – Touring | Record Labels | Publishing | Indies | Digital & Mobile | Branding
The A2IM Libera Awards, or "Libbies," are the first awards to be for independents as voted by independents, and will cap off the organization's Indie Week 2012 June 21 with honors such as the Indie Light Bulb and Road Warrior of the Year. » Full Story

TuneCore Offers Royalty Collection Service in Canada
February 22, 2012 – Publishing | Global | Legal & Management | Digital & Mobile | Retail
Online distribution service TuneCore is offering Canadian songwriters and music publishers an administrative service to collect any unpaid royalties from online sales and streaming, yet publishers like Peermusic are skeptical. » Full Story

EU Suspends ACTA Copyright Treaty Ratification
February 22, 2012 – Record Labels | Publishing | Global | Legal & Management | Digital & Mobile
The European Commission, facing steep opposition, is suspending efforts to ratify an international anti-counterfeiting agreement and instead referring it to Europe's highest court to see whether it violates EU rights. » Full Story

Megaupload Founder Kim Dotcom Released on Bail
February 22, 2012 – Record Labels | Publishing | Global | Legal & Management | Digital & Mobile
The founder of the file-sharing website Megaupload was released on bail Wednesday after a New Zealand judge decided Kim Dotcom lacked means to flee because his funds had been seized. » Full Story

Entertainment, Other Stocks End Flat After Dow Exceeds Milestone
February 22, 2012 – Record Labels | Publishing | Digital & Mobile | Branding
U.S. stocks, including shares of entertainment conglomerates, finished Tuesday's trading day flattish after initial gains pushed the Dow Jones Industrial Average index above 13,000 for the first time since May 2008. » Full Story

Robert Hendrix, Jimi's Cousin, Experience Hendrix SVP/COO, Dies At 65
February 21, 2012 – Publishing | Legal & Management | Rock & Pop
Robert "Bob" Hendrix, first cousin to Jimi and Senior Vice President/Chief Operating Officer for Experience Hendrix, L.L.C., which helped re-master old material and release new Jimi Hendrix box sets and compilations, died Sunday, Feb. 19. He was 65. » Full Story

Kobalt Music Group Snags Pete Dodge As General Manager/VP, Artist & Label Services
February 21, 2012 – Record Labels | Publishing | Global | Digital & Mobile | Retail | Executive Turntable
Kobalt Music Group continues moving forward with their planned restructuring and expansion, as today Founder/CEO Willard Ahdritz announced that Pete Dodge would become its new General Manager/Vice President of Artist and Label Services. » Full Story

Cooperative Music Lures Spunk Records From EMI
February 21, 2012 – Touring | Record Labels | Publishing | Global
Australian hipster label Spunk, with a roster that includes My Morning Jacket, Arcade Fire, Spoon and Sufjan Stevens, has left the EMI stable to strike a worldwide deal with Cooperative Music. » Full Story

Bob Seger, Gordon Lightfoot To Be Inducted Into Songwriters Hall of Fame
February 21, 2012 – Publishing | Rock & Pop | Country
Bob Seger, Gordon Lightfoot and Jim Steinman, as well as Don Schlitz and the musical-writing duo Harvey Schmidt & Tom Jones will become the newest members of the Songwriters Hall of Fame at the awards gala in June. » Full Story

AEI Media Inks Deal With Verse Music Group To Publish Drum 'N' Bass
February 17, 2012 – Record Labels | Publishing | Global | Legal & Management | Dance
AEI Media, a U.K.-based music-and-media company specializing in developing acts for the British-originated urban genre called Drum 'n' Bass, has linked up with New York-based independent publisher Verse Music Group to launch a publishing joint venture called AEI Music Publishing. » Full Story

'Spin' to Roll Out Larger Format Magazine, Drop Frequency to Six Times a Year
February 17, 2012 – Record Labels | Publishing | Digital & Mobile | Branding
Following a sharp decline in ad pages, music magazine Spin will now only publish six times a year, but increase its paper size and focus each issue on a single theme. » Full Story

Publishing Briefs: Bicycle Acquires Interest In Billie Holliday Catalog, Downtown Signs Admin Deal With MRI
February 16, 2012 – Record Labels | Publishing | Retail
Bicycle Music Company has acquired a substantial interest in Billie Holiday publishing catalog as well as her master recordings, name, likeness and image rights. Her catalog spans over 50 album titles. Elsewhere, Peermusic signed Tyrese Gibson, UMPG snapped up Taylor Swift's producer Nathan Chapman, and other publishing notes. » Full Story

Carly Simon To Be Honored by ASCAP
February 16, 2012 – Record Labels | Publishing | Rock & Pop
Carly Simon will receive the ASCAP Founders Award during the performing rights organization’s 29th annual Pop Music Awards on April 18. Past honorees include Ashford & Simpson, Burt Bacharach & Hal David, Alan & Marilyn Bergman, Jackson Browne, Elvis Costello, Tom Waits and Neil Young. » Full Story

Photos: Rev Run, RZA, DJ Khaled Talk Songwriting @ BMI 'How I Wrote That Song' Panel
February 15, 2012 – Backbeat | Record Labels | Publishing | Rock & Pop | R&B/Hip-Hop
Some of music’s biggest names - including Rev Run, RZA, Benji and Joel Madden of Good Charlotte and DJ Khaled - attended BMI’s “How I Wrote That Song” and give the attendees insights into what it takes to make music that resonates with fans. » Full Story

Photos: EMI's Jon Platt Honored @ SESAC's Pre-Grammy Brunch
February 15, 2012 – Backbeat | Record Labels | Publishing | Retail
The SESAC pre-Grammy brunch brought out a myriad of artists, songwriters and execs to honor EMI Publishing President, North America Creative Jon Platt for outstanding achievements in music. » Full Story

Whitney Houston Re-enters Top 10 on Billboard 200, Surges on Digital Songs Chart
February 15, 2012 – Record Labels | Publishing | Global | TV & Film | Digital & Mobile | Retail | Rock & Pop | R&B/Hip-Hop
Following the death of Whitney Houston on Feb. 11, the diva's "Whitney: The Greatest Hits" album re-enters the Billboard 200 chart at No. 6. It sold 64,000 copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan, in the tracking week that ended on Feb. 12 -- reflecting only one full day of sales after her passing. There were more Houston albums purchased in the last week (101,000 -- up 5,994% from 2,000 the week previous) than had been sold in all of 2011 and 2012 combined until her death (97,000). » Full Story

Billboard, THR To Provide Music and Entertainment Content To Associated Press
February 15, 2012 – Record Labels | Publishing | Global | Legal & Management | Branding
Sister publications Billboard and The Hollywood Reporter announced today they are making their content available for worldwide use on digital platforms to customers of The Associated Press. » Full Story

SESAC for Sale, Owners Seeking $500 Million: Report
February 15, 2012 – Record Labels | Publishing
SESAC's owners, which include investment bank Allen & Co. and hedge fund Och-Ziff, are reportedly seeking approximately $500 million for performing-rights organization. Warner Music is said to be among the interested parties. » Full Story

Licensing Talk With TuneCore, BMI, SoundExchange Gets Fiery at SF MusicTech
February 14, 2012 – Record Labels | Publishing | Legal & Management | Digital & Mobile | Retail
A heated debate on licensing and payments overshadowed the SF MusicTech summit, with execs from TuneCore, Music Reports, SoundExchange and BMI arguing over the future of payments for rightsholders. » Full Story

60,000 Germans Protest ACTA Anti-Piracy Legislation
February 14, 2012 – Record Labels | Publishing | Global | Legal & Management | Digital & Mobile
An estimated 60,000 people demonstrated over the weekend in more than 50 German cities against the international anti-piracy treaty ACTA. In Berlin alone there were over 10,000 protestors and 6,000 in Munich. » Full Story

Photos: Lana Del Rey, Jessie J, Irving Azoff, Scooter Braun, More at Lucian Grainge's Grammy-Night Party
February 13, 2012 – Touring | Backbeat | Record Labels | Publishing | Global | Rock & Pop | Country
Far from the proverbial madding crowds on Grammy night, Universal an intimate party for executives and artists at CEO Lucian Grainge’s residence. In attendance were Lana Del Rey, Jessie J, Robbie Williams and a large percentage of Billboard's "Power 100," including Irving Azoff, Michael Rapino, Jimmy Iovine, Eddy Cue, Barry Weiss, Monte Lipman, Daniel Ek and more. » Full Story

'True Blood,' 'Girl With Dragon Tattoo,' '50/50' Among Guild of Music Supervisor Award Honorees
February 13, 2012 – Record Labels | Publishing | Indies | TV & Film
Music supervisors responsible for the music placed in films such as "50/50," "Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked" and "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" and TV shows "American Idol," "True Blood" and "Friday Night Lights" were honored Sunday at the second annual Guild of Music Supervisors Awards. » Full Story

Backbeat: ASCAP Rhythm & Soul's Grammy Brunch With Ne-Yo, Paul Epworth, Ledisi
February 13, 2012 – Backbeat | Record Labels | Publishing | Retail | Branding
The 3rd annual ASCAP Rhythm and Soul Grammy brunch brought together Grammy nominees such as Paul Epworth, Ledisi and Kelly Price as well as recently appointed SVP of A&R at Motown Ne-Yo. » Full Story

Backbeat: Paul McCartney Honored at MusiCares Grammy Event, Performs for a Galaxy of Stars and Execs
February 11, 2012 – Touring | Backbeat | Record Labels | Publishing | TV & Film | Rock & Pop | R&B/Hip-Hop
Paul McCartney was honored at the MusiCares Person of the Year in Los Angeles Friday night, where he, the Foo Fighters, Norah Jones, Alicia Keys, Coldplay, James Taylor and others performed for a galaxy of music-industry execs, including Martin Bandier, Doug Morris, Rob Light, Randy Phillips, L.A. Reid and many, many more. » Full Story

Backbeat: Morgan Stanley Smith Barney Pre-Grammy Reception
February 10, 2012 – Record Labels | Publishing | Legal & Management | TV & Film
Public and community service was the overriding theme at Hollywood's Falcon Restaurant for the Morgan Stanley Smith Barney's pre-Grammy reception. Hosted by MSSB senior VP and wealth advisor Octavius T. 'Ted" Reid III, the jam-packed soiree brought forth a diverse mix of executives from the financial, legal and royalty realms. » Full Story

Randy Goodrum, U.S. Songwriter, Making Bid for Eurovision 2012
February 10, 2012 – Publishing | Global | TV & Film | Rock & Pop
Melodifestivalen, the local Swedish competition to select the country’s entry for the Eurovision Song Contest, is getting an American injection. Arkansas-born Randy Goodrum is the second American to ever enter the competition and if his song, co-written by Swedish songwriters Niclas Lundin and Maria Marcus, should win, he could end up in European spotlight. » Full Story

Warner Music Group Spent Less, Revenue Remained Flat in Holiday Quarter
February 9, 2012 – Record Labels | Publishing | Digital & Mobile | Retail
Key releases by Michael Buble, Nickelback and the Black Keys helped Warner post flat earnings in the fourth quarter of 2011 and first of the company’s fiscal year. In other words, Warner spent less to generate the same revenue. » Full Story

Katy Perry to Release 'Teenage Dream' Special Edition in March
February 9, 2012 – Record Labels | Publishing | Retail
Katy Perry's album Teenage Dream will be re-released March 27 as Teenage Dream: The Complete Confection, and will feature the entire original album, three new tracks and four alternate versions of songs. » Full Story

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