Category : Music Business News
Music business news covering record labels, publishing companies, streaming platforms, executive leadership, mergers, acquisitions, revenue trends, and the corporate decisions shaping the global music industry.
Warner Bros Layoffs
Warner Brothers Records had several layoffs last week, some say, to make room for the Asylum staff who sources say will assume some of the...
Q Tip’s Birthday Party Last Night (pics)
Q-Tip’s Birthday Party, last night, Santos Party House, New York (click or larger image)...
WOW: Mike Tyson Video: Now you understand
Read more: Radio Facts Legacy 30th Anniversary Issue....
TASTELESS: Fox Reality Show About Layoffs
ËœSomeoneâ„¢s Gotta Goâ„¢ will let employees decide who gets pink slip The Fox network is making a reality show out of the troubled economy. Read...
Lil’ Kim’s Download #1 Most Added Single!
Rapper and �”Dancing with the Stars � phenom Lilâ„¢ Kim and her Brookland Entertainment single �”Download � (feat T-Pain, Charlie Wilson) is the #1 Most...
Twee Fall Down but Twee Get Up: Donnie McClurkin
There are some thing’s you just KNOW but … Gospel person Donnie McClurkin promotes “We All Are On” anyway at J&R Music and Computer World...
Marvin Gaye: 70th Birthday & Motown Anniversary
Santa Monica, CA: In the 50th anniversary year of Motown, April 2, 2009 will mark the 70th birthday of the late great Marvin Gaye. Sadly,...
Miracles Get Star on Hollywood Walk of Fame (pics)
For those of you who don’t know, the original Miracles included a woman, Smokey’s wife Claudette. In addition, the group’s BIGGEST hit was without Smokey,...
NO INVITE FOR ME?/TV One Roast for John Witherspoon (pics)
Now I would have gone to this.. Do the TV One people know who I am? (bloggertantrum)(laugh). The photog was really good except no pics...
Trick Shot at Jim Jones Show
Perhaps we are just at that point where we are totally pro Obama and the positivity he brings to the black community but we have...
Jim Jones Cusses out Hotel Clerk Over Declined Card
Lesson for new record executives like Jim Jones who has been appointed to a VP position at Koch… Have one of the 300 dudes you...
Kandi Burruss on Fianc� & Record Label Comeback
Our friends over at Sister 2 Sister magazine got an exclusive on former Xscape and new Atl Housewife member Kand i Burruss. Bravo has picked...
OH NO: Coolio Contradicts His Own Content
I will admit, I watched Coolio’s show on Oxygen a couple of times. In several episodes, he was extremely concerned about losing his son “to...
OH NO: Housewives CRASH Niecy Nash’s Party in Atl
If Neicy Nash looks stunned in this pic it’s because her birthday party was crashed by all of the Housewives of Atlanta who brought their...
NY Paper Questions Tyler Perry’s Closet Stance
I decided to kill the link. Tyler Perry is a great, talented and ambitious black man. That’s all the public needs to be concerned about....
Newspapers and Magazines Decline as Blogs Rise
After looking at this video of the Rocky Mountain News shutting its doors in Denver, I fail to have any sympathy for them, I don’t...
OH NO: All Jamaican Music Officially ENDS per BAN
OK Perhaps it’s not ENDING but ALL Jamaican music is about fooking or violence, what’s left? The nation of Jamaica has instituted an island -wide...
John Legend Critiques Offensive Cartoon in Letter
Kudos to John Legend, more than an R&B performer but a true intellectual and brave spirit as well. Open letter to the post below Radio...
WHAT? Usher’s Wife Released From Hospital After Heart Attack
Tameka Foster Raymond was released from a hospital in Brazil on Monday where she was treated after suffering a cardiac arrest shortly before undergoing plastic...
Julie Greenwald Named Chairman and COO of Atlantic Records
Julie was always accessable and supportive of Radio Facts when we were a magazine. Glad to see her move up the ladder.... KCraig Kallman, Chairman...
Triton Digital Partners with McVay New Media
Triton Digital, the leading supplier of digital products to the radio industry, today announced a partnership with McVay New Media, a leading interactive consultancy. McVay...
Porsche Foxx Cleared by Fire Chief
Former V103 Atanta DJ Porsche Foxx has been cleared as a 'person of interest' by the Atlanta fire chief. She was questoined after a woman...
Music industry still not thrilled with iTunes control –
Music industry still not thrilled with iTunes control Read more: Radio Facts Legacy 30th Anniversary Issue. Even though Phil Schiller announced that Apple negotiated to...
WHAT: Petey Green Special on PBS Tonight
Mixing gritty newsreel footage, present-day interviews and newly discovered archival tapes from the TV show Petey Greeneâ„¢s Washington, ADJUST YOUR COLOR: The Truth of Petey...
OH NO: Former V103 DJ Accused of Arson in Atlanta
Filed Under: Bringing New Meaning to the Term “Fired.”She was JUST released from V103 a couple of months ago AND when she was released the...
