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.
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: Black Boy Beats White Bus Driver (disturbing video)
When I was a kid, there was always a male or an assistant adult on the bus. We did some crazy sh… but we would...
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...
Producer Conference in Phoenix
The world’s premeire conference specifically geared towards producers returns to Phoenix Saturday May 9th – Sunday May 10th, 2009, at the Phoenix Hyatt Regency. 2-day...
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...
OH NO: Rihanna’s Police Picture After Beating
TMZ ran this pic yesterday of singer Rihanna after the alleged beating she got from Chris Brown....
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...
RUMOR or TRUTH: Jermaine Durpi Goes to Columbia?
After his scathing interview in a recent ESSENCE magazine where Dupri BAKED LA Reid (and most industry people found the article to be "very interesting")...
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 Greene™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...
LOOK: It’s Bobbi Kristina
Whitney and Bobby Brown’s daughter Bobbi Kristina is really coming into her own. She was not the cutest little girl but she is making up...
Vibe Investigates Death of Celeb Sylist in New Issue
VIBE DEDICATES MARCH ISSUE TO FASHION AND STYLE COVER FEATURES MULTI-PLATINUM, GRAMMY-NOMINATED SINGER KEYSHIA COLESpecial Dual-Cover Issue Features Cand id Interview and Photo Shoot with...
SHE’s BACK!!! Jennifer NAILED it/Upstaged Faith Hill
Jennifer Hudson looked radiant as she NAILED The National Anthem. Mainstream media is saying the song was lipsynched but who the hell cares. She pulled...
Urban Industry Leaders’ Consensus
This week, I talked to several prominent industry heads from radio and records who all pretty much said the same thing. The industry is indeed...
Salem Opts to cut Salaries instead of Downsizing
Salem Communications has opted to reduce the pay of all full and part time employees by 5% instead of laying staff off. The reduction in...