Psy’s “Gangnam Style” has already become YouTube’s most watched video, but this morning the smash hit hit one billion views, making it the first video on the Internet to reach the marker, according to Billboard. The K-Pop smash hit has tallied up 6.5 million views a day, far surpassing the 813 million views Justin Bieber’s “Baby” has accumulated. […]
Who made the biggest, most disruptive impact on the music industry in 2012? Here are ten to consider… (1) Jeff Price, former CEO, Tunecore. Balls, he’s got ‘em. Fights, he picks ‘em. Results, he sometimes gets ‘em. And in an industry mired in hugely complicated and logjammed issues with endless doubletalk, that’s pretty good. There were […]
Anyone who thinks investment in music is ‘drying up’ clearly hasn’t looked at the numbers. Because with less than two weeks left in 2012, investment in music-related startups and companies has reached $619.3 million, a near-34 percent gain over 2011. [AlLindstrom]
Apple’s (AAPL) most recent smartphone launch was its biggest ever by a wide margin. The company sold more than 5 million iPhone 5 handsets during its first three days of availability, and iPhone sales across all models in the iPhone 5′s debut quarter totalled 27 million units. Apple’s latest iPhone isn’t just a big deal to Apple fans, however — according […]
Producer of the Year Grammy nominee Benny Blanco—the hitmaker behind such latter-day pop smashes asKe$ha’s “Die Young,” Trey Songz’ “Heart Attack,” Rihanna’s “Diamonds,”Maroon 5’s “Moves Like Jagger” and “Payphone,” Katy Perry‘s “Teenage Dream” and “I Kissed a Girl,” Taio Cruz‘s “Dynamite” and the Adam Levine–Gym Class Heroes collab “Stereo Hearts” and—comes out from the shadows in today’s L.A. Times. “If the producer’s work defies […]
Warner Music Group on Thursday posted improved fiscal fourth-quarter financials and said full-year growth in digital recorded music outweighed continued declines in physical sales. “We had a very productive year,” said CEO Stephen Cooper. “Warner Music Group performed well and is positioned to capitalize on the industry’s more stable recent trends. Among our important achievements, we grew […]
