TALK RADIO November 14, 2009 Features With the passage of the Performance Rights Act by the U.S. House and Senate judiciary committees, the recording industry has come closer than ever to having the issue of radio performance royalties reach the floor of Congress. » Full Story
TUNING IN TO TUNES November 14, 2009 Features The overarching theme of the Hollywood Reporter/Billboard Film and TV Music Conference was that it isn't just music supervisors who recognize the value of music in TV and film—it's now common knowledge among creative talent, producers and network executives. » Full Story
HOME FRONT November 14, 2009 Features R. Kelly Kicks Off Billboard/Our World Live Online Concert Series... Madonna Takes top Honors at Billboard Touring Awards... » Full Story
VEXING VISAS November 14, 2009 Features Tour managers and producers are warning that stricter enforcement of U.S. immigration regulations is complicating efforts by overseas artists to schedule live gigs in the States. » Full Story
REACH FOR THE 'SKY' November 14, 2009 Features The Pay-TV giant BSkyB's launch of its music subscription service Sky Songs is expected to increase the pressure on a host of rival U.K. companies that are due to roll out competing products in the coming months. » Full Story
WHEN I WRITE THE BOOK November 14, 2009 Features While label executives occasionally write books about the record business, it's far rarer to see someone from music retailing knock out a tome about record stores. » Full Story
FAST, CHEAP AND IN CONTROL November 14, 2009 Features A sprinkling of bang for a handful of bucks. That's what Universal Music Latin Entertainment has planned for the fourth quarter, with a new EP series designed to capture the noncommittal hit-seeker. » Full Story
BY THE DASHBOARD LIGHT November 14, 2009 Features Just about every digital music service is offering artists and labels some insight into how users access their music. This often takes the form of "artist dashboards" that automatically compile traffic statistics and user information for songs, videos and other content. » Full Story
BITS & BRIEFS November 14, 2009 Features Ex-Yahoo Music Execs Acquire Microsoft... Metallica Teams With 'Tap Tap Revenge'... Mocospace, Nellymoser Plan Mobile Music App... » Full Story
POWER TO THE PEOPLE November 14, 2009 Features In this age of satellite and Internet radio, it's easy to underestimate the importance of small, noncommercial terrestrial radio stations to independent artists. » Full Story
6 QUESTIONS WITH VLADO MELLER November 14, 2009 Features For the past three decades, Vlado Meller has mastered albums for acts like Miles Davis, Frank Sinatra, Duran Duran, Metallica, BeyoncÉ and Kanye West. » Full Story
THE BILLBOARD Q&A: DONALD PASSMAN November 14, 2009 Features Donald PassmanAttorney/ AuthorThe author of 'All You Need to Know About the Music Business' updates his classic.When attorney Donald Passman was teaching a course on the music business at the University of Southern California in the late '80s, he realized that his class notes for that year would make a pretty good outline for a book. » Full Story
FILM & TV MUSIC CONFERENCE November 14, 2009 Features The Billboard/Hollywood Reporter Film and TV Music conference was held Oct. 29-30 at the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles. » Full Story
DISCOVERY CHANNEL November 07, 2009 Features Google's new music search service has done something few Silicon Valley firms have been able to pull off in recent years—make record labels happy. » Full Story
BILLBOARD EXCLUSIVE: SYNCH AND SWIM November 07, 2009 Features Downtown Music, the parent company of Downtown Records, Downtown Music Publishing and Downtown Music Studios, is launching a strategic marketing agency to provide synch licensing and branding services to independent labels. » Full Story
LIL WAYNE Q&A: WAYNE'S WORLD November 07, 2009 Features When Billboard caught up with Lil Wayne, it was a couple of days after he had finished a set of shows in London, Paris and Amsterdam—and a week before he pled guilty to attempted weapon possession for an incident that occurred in 2007. » Full Story
OBITUARY: DEE ANTHONY, 1926-2009 November 07, 2009 Features Dee Anthony, an artist manager who shepherded the careers of Peter Frampton, Tony Bennett and Peter Allen and helped bring '60s U.K. rock acts to prominence in the United States, died Oct. 25 in Connecticut. He was 83 years old. » Full Story
MOBILE COMES ALIVE November 07, 2009 Features Once upon a time, artists and live venues flirted with the idea of banning mobile phones from concerts. Today, mobile phones are recognized as essential tools that have transformed the live experience. » Full Story
BITS & BRIEFS November 07, 2009 Features MP3lyrics.org is signing a lyric-licensing pact with Gracenote...Pandora has added a toolbar to its onscreen player that enables users to share content on Facebook and Twitter. » Full Story
THE ENVELOPE PLEASE November 07, 2009 Features As is our tradition, here are our annual predictions for the Latin Grammy Awards, which will be handed out Nov. 5 at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas. » Full Story
ALEJANDRO SANZ: WELCOME TO PARADISE November 07, 2009 Features The YouTube campaign for Alejandro Sanz's "Paraíso Express," due Nov. 10 on Warner Music Latina, is as whimsical as it is brilliant, and it's part of a broad marketing effort that seeks to bring the usually reticent singer closer to his fan base. » Full Story
EN BREVE November 07, 2009 Features Shakira's "She Wolf" will be released in the U.S. Nov. 23, over a month after its arrival in Europe and Latin America; Doble T y El Crok are the fourth new act this year to score a top five tropical airplay hit; Billboard and BPP Promocoes e Publicacoes LTDA are launching Billboard Brazil. » Full Story
THE BILLBOARD Q&A: OMARA PORTUONDO November 07, 2009 Features Omara Portuondo's recent shows in Los Angeles and San Francisco mark the start of what is expected to be a new wave of Cuban artist performances in the United States.The 79-year-old singer recently spoke with Billboard about "Gracias" and her tour. » Full Story
LEGAL MATTERS November 07, 2009 Features Though sales of ringtones appear to have peaked, they remain a multibillion-dollar business globally. » Full Story
COMPLETE CONTROL November 07, 2009 Features China's online music community is racing to meet new government requirements that could help fight piracy but also raise the specter of increased censorship. » Full Story
BASKING IN 'SUNSHINE' November 07, 2009 Features When Kenya's Nameless picked up the best male artist award Oct. 10 at the MTV Africa Music Awards, even the security guards whooped along with the 4,000 music fans filling Nairobi's Moi International Sports Complex. » Full Story
THREE KENYAN ACTS TO WATCH November 07, 2009 Features Nairobi-based singer Wahu Kagwi became the sole Kenyan winner at the inaugural MTV Africa Music Awards last year; a string of urban/dance-leaning pop songs have scored Amani radio chart action; the Queen Latifah-inspired rapper STL was a Best New Act nominee at the MAMAs. » Full Story
INSIDE TRACK November 07, 2009 Features After spinning off a couple of No. 1 country singles from the 2008 "Back When I Knew It All," Montgomery Gentry is finishing work on the duo's seventh studio album. » Full Story
4TH ANNUAL ASCAP COUNTRY MUSIC AWARDS November 07, 2009 Features ASCAP held its 47th annual Country Music Awards Oct. 19 at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville before an audience of more than 1,500 songwriters, country stars and music industry leaders. » Full Story
MODEL MAKEOVER October 31, 2009 Features In an effort to recapture its momentum in online social networking, MySpace is trying to reinvent itself as a social entertainment hub. » Full Story
BATTLE TESTED October 31, 2009 Features During the past year-and-a-half, as the recording industry grappled with the critical task of establishing new royalty rates for music, the negotiations were fraught with risk for the National Music Publishers' Assn. » Full Story
DIALING IT UP October 31, 2009 Features The Recording Academy has begun enlisting the support of artist managers in its efforts to gain passage of the Performance Rights Act, which would require U.S. terrestrial radio stations to pay artists and labels performance royalties on recordings they air. » Full Story
BITS & BRIEFS October 31, 2009 Features 30 Seconds To Mars Tweets Win Guitars... Bullish Mobile Entertainment Outlook For 2010... Shozu Launches App Store... » Full Story
SUBSCRIPTION RENEWAL October 31, 2009 Features How risky is the ad-supported music business? So risky that the next generation of online music services is opting to take another stab at the still-struggling monthly subscription model instead. » Full Story
KID ROCK October 31, 2009 Features It's party time. Yo Gabba Gabba! is the latest Michael Cohl venture that looks like a winner. » Full Story
HOME FRONT October 31, 2009 Features Billboard Names Touring Award Finalists... Sacha Baron Cohen, Composer Erran Baron Cohen To Keynote At Film & TV Music Conference... » Full Story
AVENTURA: KINGS OF BACHATA October 31, 2009 Features When members of the urban bachata group Aventura taped a music special at the White House last week, they started to explain their music to President Barack Obama. » Full Story
EN BREVE October 31, 2009 Features Aventura Shows Staying Power... Regional Mexican Tops At Radio... Performers Named For Latin Grammys... » Full Story
BRAND AID October 31, 2009 Features Two new branding campaigns in Mexico—one with the rock band Moderatto and the other with the pop star Aleks Syntek—are taking the concept of product integration quite literally. » Full Story
KNOW YOUR NME October 31, 2009 Features Kasabian is in a basement studio filming an online documentary. An hour ago, the alt-rock band was recording a session for radio and TV. Soon it will be on the radio bantering about Oasis before braving the rain for a rooftop magazine photo session. » Full Story
UNSUNG STARS October 31, 2009 Features The singers behind India's Bollywood musicals appear to have lost another chance to establish a collective voice. » Full Story
