Taylor Swift has three of the Top 10 on today’s iTunes Singles round-down, including the top two, with Red slated for release next Monday (10/22). The country pop star owns the #1 (“State of Grace”), #2 (“I Knew You Were Trouble”) and #9 (“We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together”) slots. The rest of the Top 10 includes PSY’s “Gangnam Style” […]
U.K. indie record label XL’s profits climbed to a whopping $67 million in profits in 2011, thanks to Adele’s blockbuster 21 album, now approaching 10 million in sales in the U.S. and more than 24 million worldwide, as reported in U.K. trade Music Week. According to company filings, XL’s bank balance climbed from £3m to £32m ($51.4 million) during the […]
On October 19th, ASCAP will honor Tiny for her contributions as a songwriter. This is apart of the Annual ASCAP Presents…..Women Behind The Music Series. As you know Tiny was behind many huge hits when she was with 90s group Xscape. She was also the brains behind “No Scrubs” (TLC) along with Kandi Burruss. “We created the Women […]
That’s according to Pandora founder Tim Westergren, who was stumping for lower royalty rates on Tuesday in San Francisco. And part of his complicated pitch was that successful artists are making a lot of money off the Pandora platform. ”There are artists making more than $2 million from Pandora,” Westegren told attendees at SF Music Tech […]
Add Live Nation chairman Irving Azoff to the list of people who think it’s harder, not easier, for artists to make it in the music business these days. And according to Azoff, part of the problem is that it’s easier to make music than ever before, with less monetization, a stark contrast to the ‘golden age’ […]
