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UMG Acquires Independent Music Distributor Ingrooves
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HypeBot
Universal Music Group is acquiring independent music distributor Ingrooves Music Group. Ingrooves will continue to operate as a standalone company led by CEO Bob Roback. UMG has been a minority investor in Ingrooves since 2006. The acquisition of Ingrooves is expected to close before the end of the current quarter and complements UMG’s existing distribution and marketing relationships with the global independent music community. UMG will aslo form a strategic partnership between its Caroline International division and Ingrooves to form ...
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YouTube's ContentID System Being Repurposed By Blackmailers Thanks To Its Failings
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HypeBot
YouTube's content ID system has long been maligned by the music industry for its multifaceted failings. The minimal staffing YouTube provides regarding copyright claims has left the system vulnerable to misuse and, most recently, outright extortion. Guest post by Timothy Geigner of Techdirt By now, we should all be aware that YouTube's ContentID system is not great. What was supposed to be an efficient way for content owners to report when their content is being used without permission instead represents ...
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Identity Theft New Trend In Music Piracy
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HypeBot
Music piracy has existed as long the music industry itself, but like every thing else in the biz, it's constantly changing and adapting. The most recent trend appears be impersonation, and has digital buccaneers pinging labels and publicists, claiming to be an artist or manager in order to access their music. Guest post by James Shotwell of Haulix Digital thieves are pirating music by pretending to be everyone from musicians to industry professionals. Music piracy is as old as the music business. ...
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Birth of American Bossa Nova
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
One of America's first champions of Brazilian bossa nova was Felix Grant. A jazz disc jockey in Washington D.C., Grant hosted The Album Sound on WMAL. His voice had a soft, sophisticated on-air sound that caught the ear of listeners. Among those tuning into his show in 1960 was Dr. João Oliveira Santos, an economist and head of the International Coffee Agreement, a Brazilian trade group. A fan of Grant's show, he introduced Grant to his brother, Paulo Santos, a ...
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Classical Music Listeners Still Favor CDs
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HypeBot
While CDs are certainly in decline, they haven't vanished from shelves quite as quickly as anticipated. Indeed, when it comes to consumers of classical music, there remains a good deal of interest in this physical music format. Guest post by Bobby Owsinski of Music 3.0 Sales for CDs keep on falling, but predictions of the format’s total demise are still premature as it continues to hang around. While download sales have fallen off the cliff, the CD sales decline has ...
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SoundCloud Appears To Be Getting Healthier
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HypeBot
For awhile things looked pretty dark for SoundCloud, and as the audio distribution platform continued to suffer growing losses, both creators and consumers of the sites content began to worry about what sort of changes the company might have to make to stay afloat. Thankfully, a new report from the company has revealed a strong uptick in revenue. Guest post by Bobby Owsinski of Music 3.0 Artists and bands everywhere have been worried for a while about whether SoundCloud would change drastically ...
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Penske Media Acquires 100% Of Rolling Stone Magazine
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HypeBot
Penske Media Corporation, which also own Variety and Deadline, has quietly acquired full ownership n the venerable music publication Rolling Stone. Penske Media, which acquired a controlling stake in Rolling Stone in December 2017 from longtime publisher Jann Wenner, now has bought the outstanding shares from minority partner BandLab Technologies. Since they acquired the lion’s share of Rolling Stone in 2017, PMC has revamped the magazine, changing its publishing schedule from weekly to monthly and redesigning both its print and ...
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Mascot Label Group announces signing of jazz legend George Benson
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All About Jazz
Mascot Label Group/Provogue are thrilled to announce the signing of soul and jazz guitar legend George Benson, with a new album scheduled for a Spring 2019 release. The 10 time Grammy Award winner and NEA Jazz Master is one of the greatest guitarists in jazz history and has released 35 studio albums, including the multi-platinum Billboard #1 Breezin. He has also had a string of hits to his name including “Give Me The Night", “Never Give Up On A Good ...
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