Forecast

ASCAP Cuts Payments Just Months After Issuing a Glowing Forecast

Source: HypeBot
October 8, 2010

In April of this year, ASCAP announced,  “Music is performed more often, in more places, in more ways by more businesses than ever before. That expanded music use, combined with dramatic ASCAP Membership growth, market share increases and effective strategic management have led to stunning revenue and distribution growth for 2009." 2009 collections had risen $48 million to $995 million from the $947 million collected in 2008. But just recently, ASCAP cut payments to some members of it's ASCAPlus program by ...
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Forecast Predicts Strong Digital Download Growth

Source: HypeBot
October 2, 2010

At present there are 105.4m paid users of digital music in North America. A new forecast predicts that number will grow to 227.2m by 2014. As well, it argues that the number of paid download users in the US and Canada—from the period of 2010 to 2014—will increase from 105.4m to 227.2m. However, they expect that the greatest growth will happen through online and mobile subscription users; an increase from 1.9m in 2009 to 9.1m in 2014. In accordance, they ...
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New Release from Lucy Woodward "Hooked" on Verve Forecast

Source: Verve Label Group
March 17, 2010

"I wanted to make a modern-day torch record," Lucy Woodward says of her Verve Records debut Hooked!, which finds the New York-bred singer-songwriter achieving a remarkable creative rebirth by reembracing her early musical roots. Woodward made her first impression on the national scene with her 2003 debut album While You Can and her bubbly pop hit “Dumb Girls." But her musical heart lies in the soulful authenticity of classic jazz, swing, R&B and Latin music, and it's those influences that ...
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New Release from Aqualung "Magnetic North" on Verve Forecast

Source: Verve Label Group
March 16, 2010

Aqualung's Matt Hales thought he had it all figured out. In 2007, the British singer/songwriter told a London audience that he was retiring. “I'd had enough of it at that point and thought I might just be a teacher or do something else."

However, the stellar batch of tunes that make up his new Verve album, Magnetic North, came calling and they wouldn't take no for an answer. “The songs were like, 'Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, C'mon dad, let's ...
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'Weather Channel' Changes Music Format: 'Weather Report' in the Forecast?

Source: All About Jazz
August 31, 2009

"Callin' out around the world / Are you ready for a brand new beat?"--Martha and the Vandellas hit from the summer of '64 (video) written by William 'Mickey' Stevenson and Marvin Gaye. Around the world, indeed--from North to South America; from France, Germany, and England to India and Australia. With the flip of a switch, the Weather Channel's cultural tsunami--unexpected and relentless--quietly surges through the web of communication satellites and fiber-optic cables that envelope the world like strands of extruded ...
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DC Forecast: Duke Ellington Festival Free Concert

Source: All About Jazz
September 15, 2007

The third Duke Ellington Jazz Festival is well underway, and after a week of movies, workshops, and musical events held throughout Washington, DC, the festival is heading towards its culminating event, an all day free jazz concert on the National Mall.

Dedicated this year to celebrating the 90th birthday of jazz giant Dizzy Gillespie, the National Mall concert flagship event will bring together nine of the 12 artists whose careers were advanced when Gillespie hired them to play in the ...
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All Ellington Sat/Sun Cancelled this Weekend Due to Weather Forecast

Source: All About Jazz
April 21, 2006

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