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Can Tokens Usher In A New Era of Price Flexibility for Artists?
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HypeBot
Could bitcoin and tokens be way for artists to better control the sales of their work? In this piece, Adam Levine, Founder & CEO at Tokenly, explains that embracing new technology can help artists forge deeper connections with fans and make money based on what they think their work is worth. By Adam Levine, Founder & CEO of Tokenly Throughout the history of recorded music, the cost purchasing songs has remained remarkably inflexible. The cost of vinyl records, cassettes, and CDs ...
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Music Industry Leadership 101 is Latest Educational Initiative from Usher's New Look
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HypeBot
This week Usher's New Look nonprofit officially announced their new “Music Industry Leadership 101" program for high school students. It's currently being piloted in a number of schools. Recent news coverage gives a nice sense of how the program will both introduce kids to career paths in the music industry and connect what they're learning to finding one's passion and building a career plan around that passion whether or not it's in music. Usher's New Look, a non-profit founded by ...
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Usher at the Apollo Theater
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Michael Ricci
In the Hands of a Pro, the Moves Meet the Grooves Usher Friday night with hits, splits and a handstand. “It's been about four years since we last met," Usher said addressing a sold-out audience as a single acquaintance. “I wanted it to be here at the Apollo."
He let that notion sink in a moment, implicitly evoking a roll call of legendary performers at the Apollo Theater, like James Brown and Marvin Gaye. Then he asserted his ...
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Usher Scores Second Best Sales Debut Of 2008
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All About Jazz
Four years after his Confessions rocked the charts, Usher returns to The Billboard 200 at No. 1 with Here I Stand.
With 433,000 U.S. copies sold, according to Nielsen SoundScan, the LaFace/Zomba album is the second biggest debut this year behind the 463,000 start of Mariah Carey's E=MC2.
Here I Stand was led by the single Love in This Club featuring Young Jeezy, which was No. 1 for three weeks on the Billboard Hot 100. Usher's Confessions started at the ...
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Usher Closing in on No. 1 Album Debut
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All About Jazz
Usher's Here I Stand continues to charge its way towards a No. 1 debut on next week's Billboard 200 album chart, as it will once again lead Nielsen SoundScan's Building chart when it is released later today (May 30).
Unweighted sales of Stand through the close of business Thursday (May 29) were 267,000. Depending on weekend sales, Usher has a chance to meet or possibly exceed the year's best sales week -- when Mariah Carey's E=MC2 bowed with 463,000 in ...
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Usher's Here I Stand CD
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All About Jazz
USHER 2.0/ One of the Last Big Pop Stars Tries Adulthood. No catharsis here: Usher has stripped out the pain audible in the work of so many great male soul singers. Usher's new album, Here I Stand, is the work of a newlywed. The challenge here is to convince us that he is a married and responsible man--grown and sexy, as R. & B. for people over thirty has come to be called--without sacrificing the louche, frictionless sense ...
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