AWARDS REWARD February 13, 2010 Features The 2010 Grammy Awards once again demonstrated their power to move music sales, as Pink, the Black Eyed Peas and other acts who performed on the show posted big digital sales increases. » Full Story
HOME FRONT February 13, 2010 Features Aventura to be Latin Music Conference superstar Q&A...Billboard teams with Global Radio Network to launch Billboard Radio. » Full Story
WORRIED BLUES February 13, 2010 Features CISAC, the International Confederation of Authors and Composers Societies, revealed at MIDEM that its 222 member societies collected €7 billion (nearly $10 billion) in 2008, a 1.5% decline after four straight years of growth. » Full Story
LEGAL MATTERS February 13, 2010 Features In the unpredictable world of Internet commerce, one trend seems clear: Content is moving to the "cloud," or remote servers that can be accessed from any computer. » Full Story
IN PURSUIT OF A STREAM February 13, 2010 Features The download model—built on the premise that ringtone-buyers would flock to buying and downloading full-length tracks as well—will be replaced by on-demand streaming-access models as smart phones make up a greater share of available mobile handsets. » Full Story
BITS & BRIEFS February 13, 2010 Features Netbiscuits to build sites for UMB acts...Global app revenue to reach $15 billion in 2013...Shazam will be featured in a Dockers commercial debuting during the Super Bowl telecast. » Full Story
WAITING FOR LIFTOFF February 13, 2010 Features When Nokia launched its Comes With Music service in October 2008, it came with high expectations among record labels, which hoped Nokia could convert its global smart-phone dominance into tens of millions of new paying music users. » Full Story
DOWN BY THE LEVY February 13, 2010 Features Italy has expanded the scope of its private-copying levy, creating a potential multimillion-euro annual windfall for the country's entertainment industry, even as it raises a storm of protest from consumer electronics firms. » Full Story
BACK-TO-SCHOOL DAYS February 13, 2010 Features In the north of England, moves are afoot to reawaken a sleeping giant: Britain's college circuit. » Full Story
CLOSING TIME February 13, 2010 Features Touring professionals Down Under fear new alcohol licensing regulations could strangle the vital pub/club scene in Australia's live music capital, Melbourne. » Full Story
FALSE IDOLS February 13, 2010 Features Mexico's ruling National Action Party proposed legislation in January to regulate narcocorridos. Surprisingly, many in the music industry are privately hailing the action, even as they acknowledge that narcocorridos have never been as massively popular as today. » Full Story
BAND ON THE RUN February 13, 2010 Features When Banda Los Recoditos' "Ando Bien Pedo" bowed at No. 1 on Billboard's Top Latin Albums chart last issue, knocking Aventura's "The Last" out of the top spot, CD purchases accounted for nearly all of its sales. » Full Story
EN BREVE February 13, 2010 Features Angel Kaminsky joins Universal Music Latin America...David Bisbal launches 22-date tour...Arcangel plans live webcast of P.R. show. » Full Story
BUILDING THE PERFECT BEAST February 06, 2010 Features After nearly a year of intense scrutiny, political posturing and consumer outcry, it's finally time to come to grips with the new music business' new superpower: Live Nation Entertainment. » Full Story
KEEPING SCORE February 06, 2010 Features winners Irving Azoff: None of the concessions mandated by the Department of Justice (DOJ) threatens Azoff's vision of building the ultimate management/venue/promoter/ticketing/content consortium. » Full Story
CASTING A WIDER NET February 06, 2010 Features You can't please all the people all the time. And no one knows that better than the Recording Academy as it prepares for the 52nd annual Grammy Awards Jan. 31. » Full Story
HERE, THERE AND EVERYWHERE February 06, 2010 Features "I'm in a Grammy's Commercial! Hell Yea! (I'm the 3rd guy to pop up)." So tweeted a New York-based musician named Matty G Jan. 8, with a link to the Grammy Awards' YouTube channel. » Full Story
WHO VOTES AND HOW February 06, 2010 Features To become a voting member of the Recording Academy, you must be a professional in the music industry with creative or technical credits on six commercially released tracks on a physical release or 12 digitally released tracks. » Full Story
MIDEM TAKEAWAYS February 06, 2010 Features PUBLISHING Bulk synch deals: Third Side Music founding partner/VP of business affairs Patrick Curley told MIDEM's publishing summit that while individual songs may be licensed for as little as $500, licensing them alongside other songs in a bulk deal could yield $20,000 in revenue. » Full Story
A BIGGER BANG? February 06, 2010 Features In the end, it was a bit of a letdown. After weeks of overinflated expectations, it was hard to see the "magical and revolutionary" qualities that Apple CEO Steve Jobs attributed to the company's new iPad. » Full Story
ROCKING THE SLOPES February 06, 2010 Features The rustic Austrian ski resort of Mayrhofen makes an unlikely setting for a five-day feast of alternative rock and dance. » Full Story
HALTING THE PLUNDER February 06, 2010 Features After dabbling in free smart-phone applications for most of last year, record labels and artists have started developing more interactive and content-heavy products with the intent of charging for them. » Full Story
BITS & BRIEFS February 06, 2010 Features Roxio Strikes Music Deal With Triple Scoop... CBS Interactive Launches Grammy Music Channel... Mobile Phone Ownership Surges Among Kids... » Full Story
SLOWHAND'S HANDSET February 06, 2010 Features T-Mobile has teamed with Fender Music and Eric Clapton to market the Android-powered myTouch 3G Fender Limited Edition phone. » Full Story
SHARP-DRESSED SCAN February 06, 2010 Features Nordstrom's 3-year-old incursion into music is paying off dividends for the fashion department store chain. » Full Story
EN BREVE February 06, 2010 Features El Chapo To Play Club Dates... Telemundo To Issue Soundrack EPs... » Full Story
AND THEY'RE OFF February 06, 2010 Features One of the key elements in launching any music festival, particularly a destination event, is procuring a unique location that acts as a draw on its own. Think of the rolling hills of Manchester, Tenn., for Bonnaroo; the desert beauty of Indio, Calif., for Coachella; or the urban oasis of Chicago's Grant Park for Lollapalooza. » Full Story
BACK IN THE FOLD February 06, 2010 Features We'll be the first to admit that in the last two years we've been outspoken about celebrating the successes that Latin acts have had with independent labels and distributors. » Full Story
DOMINICAN DOMINATION February 06, 2010 Features As urban bachata act Aventura performed sold-out concerts Jan. 20-21 at New York's Madison Square Garden and spent its 21st week atop Billboard's Top Latin Albums chart, other Dominican-American acts were busy charting their own paths up from the New York underground. » Full Story
THE BILLBOARD Q&A: TOM WINDISH February 06, 2010 Features At a time when many boutique booking agencies have folded their operations into those of larger, acquisitive rivals, Tom Windish has been intent on forging his own path. » Full Story
GOOD WORKS February 06, 2010 Features In conjunction with Grammy Awards week, approximately 100 items of music merchandise are being auctioned on eBay to raise funds for MusiCares and the Grammy Foundation. » Full Story
INSIDE TRACK: THE CRYSTAL METHOD February 06, 2010 Features The Crystal Method is back in the lab—or, more specifically, the Crystalwerks studio that Scott Kirkland and Ken Jordan built in Los Angeles and is now their creative home. » Full Story
AMERICAN SYCO January 30, 2010 Features Anyone who thought Simon Cowell's U.S. profile would drop when he quit "American Idol" is in for a shock: His new deal with Sony is set to give his company, Syco, a much greater stateside presence. » Full Story
LEGAL MATTERS January 30, 2010 Features In 2003, the major labels got an early holiday gift when the U.S. Department of Justice announced two days before Christmas that it was closing its investigation into charges that the then-five majors had been engaging in a price-fixing conspiracy through Pressplay and MusicNet, two joint ventures they had set up to provide legal Internet distribution channels in the wake of Napster. » Full Story
HOME FRONT January 30, 2010 Features Craig Marks Named Editor of Billboard... M. Tye Comer Named Editor of Billboard.com... » Full Story
AGENDA ITEMS January 30, 2010 Features Music publishers are eyeing an ambitious agenda for 2010, with their to-do list dominated by two key initiatives. One is pushing for U.S. legislation that requires the payment of performance royalties for compositions included in song and video downloads. » Full Story
ALL YOU NEED IS 'LOVE' January 30, 2010 Features Blink-182 guitarist/vocalist Tom DeLonge is taking a temporary break from major-label life with the release of the forthcoming album by his other band, Angels & Airwaves. » Full Story
BITS & BRIEFS January 30, 2010 Features Guitar World Partners With Concert.TV... Indaba, Penton Media To Share Services... Watunes Launches iPhone App... » Full Story
SHORTCODE TO SALES January 30, 2010 Features In the immediate aftermath of the Jan. 12 earthquake in Haiti, the power of mobile communications quickly became apparent when the Red Cross was able to generate $5 million in donations in 48 hours through mobile-phone based donations. » Full Story
FAIR PLAY January 30, 2010 Features Along with the usual posters advertising upcoming shows and reminding patrons to smoke outside, clubgoers in Portland, Ore., could start seeing a new sticker appear on venue doors. If an effort by the American Federation of Musicians Local 99 is successful, most venues in this music-friendly city will sport signage proclaiming that they've agreed to ensure fair compensation for musicians. At the core of the guidelines is a tiered pay scale, which is based on such factors as the size and type of venue. » Full Story
THE OLYMPIC GUESSING GAMES January 30, 2010 Features The Winter Olympic Games are about to make Vancouver unseasonably hot for the local and international acts prepped to join the party—despite mystery surrounding the final lineup for the Feb. 12-28 event. » Full Story
