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MUSIC BUSINESS Portia Sabin's career has reached most of the corners of the music industry, including drumming in all-female punk power-pop band The Hissyfits in the late 1990s. She founded [...]

SONY MUSIC PUBLISHING swept Billboard's Publishers Quarterly rankings for the first three months of 2024--its fifth consecutive quarter atop the Top Radio Airplay and Hot 100 Songs lists. Sony also [...]

AT MANY OF THE MORE THAN 1,500 independent record stores in the United States, vinyl sales have been growing at a healthy clip for almost a decade--14.2% with all retailers [...]

SINCE THE RISE of digital music technology in the 1990s, royalties from online music have proved bountiful for star performers. But back then, forward-thinking music industry executives and musicians helped [...]

Merck Mercuriadis' eyes flash with exasperation. Over years spent managing the careers of uncompromising artists like Elton John, Beyonce and Guns N' Roses, the 57-year-old music industry veteran has perfected [...]

ON THE EAGLES' HOTEL CALIFORNIA TOUR THIS year, the band's set includes 'Life's Been Good,' a Joe Walsh classic that might well be rock'n'roll's greatest tribute to business managers. 'I [...]

This document provides a comprehensive overview of the achievements and contributions of individuals and organizations in the R&B and hip-hop industry. It highlights the successes of artists, record labels, music management companies, streaming platforms, and other industry professionals. The document also discusses the challenges faced by the genres, such as the lack of resources and recognition, the pressure to produce hits, and the need for authenticity and originality. Overall, R&B and hip-hop are described as powerful, influential, and globally impactful genres that continue to shape music and culture. [Extracted from the article]

The article highlights the career of John Branca, an entertainment attorney who has dedicated his career to fighting for artists' rights. Topics discussed include his representation of 30 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees over his 47 years as an entertainment lawyer, his personal and family background, and his philanthropic effort which is tied to music.

WHILE 2022 WILL BE REMEMBERED as the year that Taylor Swift made history as the first artist to populate the entire top 10 of the Billhoard Hot 100 with songs [...]

CLOSE TO 100% GROWTH IN STREAMING REVENUE AND healthy jumps in publishing and touring income stoked earnings for music's top artists in 2018. Billboard's annual Money Makers report--which, this year, [...]

AFTER SHARING NO. 1 WITH UNIVERSAL MUSIC Publishing Group (UMPG) for three consecutive quarters, Sony Music Publishing swept Billboard's Publishers Quarterly report for the first 90 days of 2023--including the [...]

LESS THAN a year in business, Sherrese Clarke Soares is on her way to making her HarbourView Equity Partners a quiet giant in the music-assets space--and to do it, she [...]

AN 11 PERCENTAGE-POINT surge by Universal Music Publishing Group resulted in a split decision for the top honors in Billboard's second-quarter 2022 publisher rankings, while Atlanta rapper Latto's 'Big Energy' [...]

FOR THE THIRD CONSECUTIVE QUARTER, Sony Music Publishing and Universal Music Publishing Group took their usual No. 1 spots on Billboard's Publishers Quarterly rankings for the period of Sept. 30 [...]

The music industry is growing again, and so are the incomes of its top artists. Billboard's annual Money Makers report--which ranks the earnings of the top 50 music acts based [...]

Executive Of The Tear JASON OWEN The president/CEO of Sandbox Entertainment and manager of Faith Hill, Kacey Musgraves, Kelsea Ballerini and Little Big Town has emerged as the leader of [...]

NEITHER THE DELTA nor the omicron COVID-19 variant slowed the U.S. recorded-music business last year as it continued the upward growth trend maintained even in the early days of the [...]

DOR THE SECOND CONSECUTIVE QUARTER, Sony Music Publishing and Universal Music Publishing Group split the top honors on the publisher rankings. Sony topped the Top Radio Airplay chart in the [...]

For the first time in nearly two decades, music industry revenue has increased for two straight years--and that's good news for the h ig hest earners on Billboard's annual Money [...]

AT THE END OF OCTOBER, ROUND Hill Music co-founder/CEO Josh Gruss will take two weeks off from running one of the more important new competitors in the music publishing business, [...]

ALTHOUGH THE MUSIC BUSINESS IS an increasingly global enterprise, reliably measuring the income of artists who are popular on an international scale remains an inexact science. The September 2020 launch [...]

BONY MUSIC PUBLISHING led the first-quarter 2022 publisher rankings on both the Top Radio Airplay and Hot 100 charts--its eighth consecutive No. 1 on the latter chart--while British rock band [...]

OVER THE PAST SIX months, artists and producers have been rushing to sell their royalty streams in unprecedented numbers as investors pour into music assets and drive prices to heady [...]

EARLY IN 2020, JUST before the pandemic disrupted the vinyl supply chain and delayed turnaround times, the manufacturing industry was already looking at a rocky future. In January, Rainbo Records, [...]

EVERY CEO IN THE WORLD HAS A story about how his or her company has handled the pandemic. But how many of them were first-time CEOs just two months into [...]

ADELE'S ALBUM MEGASALES ASIDE, TOURING IS ONCE AGAIN THE DETERMINING FACTOR FOR THE 40 ACTS THAT TOPPED BILLBOARDS RANKING OF 2015 EARNINGS 1 TAYLOR SWIFT $73.5M (2015 Total Revenue) SALES […]

WHILE THE PRINCIPALS of Kobalt, Big Deal and other music publishers are making tens and even hundreds of millions of dollars selling to investment funds like Hipgnosis and Primary Wave [...]

NOT EVEN A PANDEMIC could slow down U.S. record ed-m usic b usin ess growth last year: Overall audio consumption increased 11.6% to 756.8 million album consumption units in 2020, [...]

THE KID LAROI, JUSTIN BIEBER AND ADELE helped Sony Music Publishing continue its winning streak through the end of 2021. The company took the No. 1 spot on both the [...]

HIP-HOP FANS will have plenty to cheer about during 2022's Super Bowl halftime performance as Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Eminem, Kendrick Lamar and Mary J. Blige take center stage. But [...]

ALL IT TAKES FOR A HIT CAREER IS THE RIGHT mix of melodies and lyrics--and lawyers. Never has the role of legal advisers in the music business been more crucial, […]

This year the industry's top players weren't just changing the business in the label, publishing and touring worlds, they also were changing jobs, and the shake-ups are reflected in Billboard's [...]

ODON'T THINK A LOT OF PEOPLE expected us to get the Jackson deals done,' says Shot Tower Capital managing director David Dunn. He's talking about his team's 2007 maneuvers to [...]

OR THE SECOND STRAIGHT QUARTER, Sony Music Publishing ruled both the Top Radio Airplay and the Hot 100 Songs charts. The period from July 1 to Sept. 30 marked the [...]

LESS THAN A MONTH AFTER A $54 billion stock spinoff by Universal Music Group (UMG), three of the world's biggest private equity players--KKR, Blackstone and Apollo Global Management--are making billion-dollar [...]

UMG's stock spinoff shows that equity markets like the sound of music companies--and its stock's performance so far raises the odds that more companies will join the growing gang of [...]

ON JUNE 3, WARNER Music Group went public in the year's biggest stock offering, and its share price rose 39% over the next two days. The company itself didn't raise [...]

SONY/ATV FINISHED 2019 strong, holding on to the top spot in market share for both the Top Radio Airplay and Hot 100 Songs charts, thanks to Lewis Capaldi and Post [...]

ON FEB. 6, IN A MOVE that took both Wall Street and the music business by surprise, Warner Music Group filed plans to make a public stock offering underwritten by [...]

FOR NEARLY 70 YEARS after the passage of the Copyright Act of 1909 during the Tin Pan Alley era, music publishing was considered an arcane backwater of the music industry [...]

STREAMING SERVICES haven't only revived the music industry--they've also reshaped it, changing the focus of A&R and marketing and incentivizing executives to prioritize hip-hop over rock and hot singles over [...]

A YEAR AGO, WHEN President Donald Trump signed the Music Modernization Act, publishers and streaming services agreed on how to build a mechanical licensing organization. Now they're debating how much [...]

Who makes the biggest bucks in music? Billboard's annual Money Makers ranking of the top earners is more than a little bit country (Taylor storms in at No. 1), with [...]

For the first time, leaders from the international music business are honored with a Billboard Power Players report, presented here in association with MIDEM, the leading international event for the [...]

AS R. KELLY FACES A trial in New York on federal racketeering and sex trafficking charges, with another trial for similar charges to follow in Chicago, the singer's lawyer says [...]

AS THE PANDEMIC ENDS, THE recorded-music business has continued to thrive: Overall, on-demand streams in the United States grew 10.8%, to 555.3 billion, in the first half of 2021 compared [...]

ON AN INDUSTRY WHERE smart executives look for angles others don't see, Sony Music Group's June 11 announcement that it would begin to pay royalties to artists with unrecouped balances [...]

SONY MUSIC PUBLISHING CAME IN AT NO. 1 ON THE Hot 100 Songs publishers ranking for the period from January to March, but the company was dethroned by Universal Music [...]

MAKING MONEY IN THE MUSIC INDUSTRY is hard enough for artists and executives. To help them spend smartly, invest wisely and (legally) keep as many of their dollars as possible [...]

IS CONVENTIONAL WISDOM--ALBUMS ARE DEAD! STREAMING IS KING!--NOW OVER IN THE WAKE OF 25'S HISTORIC DEBUT? A DELIRIOUS, PERPLEXED INDUSTRY SCRUTINIZES SONY'S TRIUMPH CLIVE DAVIS HAS A MESSAGE for the [...]