25/10/10
The Wall St. Journal recently wrote about where Jay-Z has been and where he is going with this entrepreneurial activities. Click the link below for the full article: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304741404575564092478617462.html
Why Hip Hop Rocks
Why is rap so popular? Here is an intriguing list jointly put out by Anthony Accardo of Disney Research and Digital Music News. The title is “The Top 8 Reasons Why Rappers Make Better Businessmen…” Here is the link to the original article – http://digitalmusicnews.com/stories/100110top8 1. Guest Appearances Make 1+1=3… One of rap’s best-selling albums [...]
Aardvark Records Press Release – 30 Sept
Press Release 30 September 2010 Aardvark Records Hits Add Value to International Brand Names PENRYN, CORNWALL (30 September 2010) In the not too distant past, branded stores and large retailers used music as a backdrop. The modern branded retail experience has made large strides since the days of mindless musak. Today’s retailing market creates in-store [...]
Types of Artists
Digital Music News released a list of the 12 different kinds of artists out there these days. I found the list interesting. You can find the direct link here: http://digitalmusicnews.com/stories/092410typesofartist And here is a list of the 12 different kinds of artists from Digital Music News: (1) The Unsigned, DIY Do-it-yourself (DIY), and totally direct-to-fan [...]
Performing Rights Organizations
Here’s a great article from this Sunday’s NY Times Magazine about the performing rights organization, BMI. The author, John Bowe, follows a BMI licensing executive around as she collects money from restaurants, bars, and skating rinks. Very interesting article on how BMI has managed to maintain steady growth as the music labels have plummeted rapidly: [...]
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Beyonce in Peru
The latest artist to hit Peru was Beyonce. She just performed at Lima’s Estadio Monumental. Ticket costs were 175 soles (US$61) which is nearly 1/5th an average monthly wage for people in their 20′s. Beyonce is yet another artist who has recently performed in Peru. Peru has an active music loving population who have turned [...]
Beyonce, Rated G
Beyonce will be performing a concert in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on October 25th this year. This is noteworthy because just two years ago, she didn’t play a concert because of dress code requirements which went a little something like this: Female performers are required to cover up in the country, which has various rules for [...]
Japanese Summer Sonic Music Festival
Creative Man Productions out of Japan has just announced some of the bands that will take part in this year’s Summer Sonic Music Festival. The festival takes place over 3 days in 2 different cities – Tokyo and Osaka. Bands perform in one city one day and the other city the next day. The int’l [...]
