Tag: digital music
Rev Run and Justine Simmons Headline AT&T ‘Be The Glow’ Experience at ESSENCE Festival...
Digital and Radio Facts: AT&T* celebrates Black Music Month by bringing one of the biggest names in hip hop music to the largest festival for black music in the nation—ESSENCE Festival. [...]
SoundExchange Acquires Canadian Musical Reproduction Rights Agency (CMRRA)
Digital and Radio Facts: SoundExchange today announced that it has acquired the Canadian Musical Reproduction Rights Agency Ltd. (CMRRA), a music licensing collective representing the vast majority of songs recorded, sold and broadcast in Canada on behalf of music publishers. [...]
Kobalt Music Announces $75 Million Funding Round Led By Hearst Entertainment
Digital and Radio Facts: New Funding Allows Kobalt Music to Further Scale Its Global Royalty Collection Platform to Drive Growth and Transparency Across the Music Industry Kobalt, the leading global music services company, today announced it has raised $75 million in growth capital. [...]
Grammy Award Winner Fantasia Releases Music Video For “Sleeping With The One I Love”
Digital and Radio Facts: “The Definition Of…” Available Everywhere 7/29<@TasiasWord @fantasia @RCARecords #tasiasword Grammy Award and third season american idol winner Fantasia releases her new music video for “Sleeping With The One I Love.” Fantasia premiered the video last night during the BET Awards Red Carpet telecast. [...]
STIM And Kobalt Partnership (Kobalt Stim Aggregated Rights AB) Concludes Major Music Licenses
Digital and Radio Facts: Radio Facts: In less than a year Kobalt STIM Aggregated Rights AB, the partnership between Kobalt Music Group (Kobalt) and STIM, has concluded agreements with all major music companies including iTunes, Spotify, YouTube, Google, Amazon, Napster and Vevo.In March 2013 STIM and Kobalt launched a new [...]
SoundExchange Extends Contract with President and CEO Michael Huppe
Digital and Radio Facts: Radio Facts: SoundExchange announced today Michael Huppe will continue to serve as its President and CEO through 2018. [...]
SoundExchange to Provide Monthly Payments to Artists and Labels
Digital and Radio Facts: Radio Facts: If you are a songwriter, producer, or publisher this sort of news is music to your ears. Beginning this month, SoundExchange will provide monthly royalties to artists, labels and rights owners signed up to receive electronic payments. [...]
Sweden’s X5 Enlists HFA’s Slingshot for US Licensing Needs
Digital and Radio Facts: Radio Facts: HFA, the music industry’s go-to source for rights management services, has entered into an agreement with Stockholm-based digital music pioneer X5 Music Group for licensing and royalty administration services in the U.S.X5, established in 2003, specializes in the digital download market and has released [...]
5 Reasons Why Lyor Cohen’s New 300 Record Label Could Change the Game
Radio Facts: Radio Facts: In an interview with Billboard, Lyor Cohen revealed he is starting a new venture entitled 300, which will serve as more of content company than a record label. [...]
SIX FEET ONE PUBLISHING SEEKS DANCE SINGLES FOR WORLDWIDE PUBLISHING AND PROMOTION
Digital and Radio Facts: Radio Facts: Six Feet One Publishing, a subsidiary music publishing company of 1 Way Public Relations ), and owned by Dr. [...]
TuneCore Announces New Partnerships with Gracenote and Shazam
Digital and Radio Facts: Radio Facts: TuneCore, the premier digital music distributor, announced today partnerships with two of the world leaders in music identification technology – Gracenote and Shazam. [...]
Are Record Labels Ready for the return of Vinyl and Record Player Nostalgia?
Digital and Radio Facts: Are Record Labels Ready for The Return of Vinyl and Record Player Nostalgia?The Return of Vinyl - Vinyl is returning. There was absolutely an amazing process to buying records when I was a kid that is COMPLETELY lost with iTunes and digital music. [...]
MOTOWN Celebrates: Marvin Gaye Would have been 70 April 2nd
Radio Facts: 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, April 1 will also mark the 25th anniversary of his tragic death the day before his 45th birthday. [...]
