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Billy Strings Run At Capitol Theatre Brings Together Streaming Era’s Two Powerhouses
Shapiro tells Billboard that the Capitol Theatre and the Brooklyn Bowl were outfitted with a multi-camera streaming system years earlier to stream shows with partners like Nugs, while the Brooklyn Bowl outlet in Nashville, which opened last year, was purpose-built for streaming. The Capitol Theatre includes a control room from which director Jonathan Healy was able to live-direct eight cameras capturing the show, while fans from home were projection-mapped onto the walls of the 95-year-old-venue. Couple that with Relix Media, which Shapiro owns and which has been a critical support vehicle for building Strings’ profile with jam fans, as well as as well as the huge email lists he’s built from both his venues and the popular Lock’N festival which help market Strings to a wider audience...
Swedish House Mafia Parts Ways With Columbia Records: Exclusive
Two sources familiar with the matter also tell Billboard that Swedish House Mafia has parted ways with their manager, Patriot Management’s Ron Laffitte, who took over for longtime manager Amy Thomson following the group’s 2018 reunion show. After splitting up in 2013 following their 53-date One Last Tour, the trio reunited for a show-closing performance at Ultra Music Festival 2018. There they teased a full-on reunion, with SHM member Axwell announcing to the crowd, “It’s Swedish House Mafia for life this time.” In the three years since, the group has played about a dozen dates in Europe, Asia, Mexico and Saudi Arabia, with these shows containing new, as-yet-unreleased music. In June of 2019, due to supposed scheduling conflicts, band members Sebasti...
David Crosby Sells Legendary Catalog to Irving Azoff’s Iconic Artists Group
Irving Azoff‘s newly-launched venture Iconic Artists Group has partnered with David Crosby on a wide-ranging deal to monetize the California singer-songwriter’s life work in the digital era, the two parties announced today (March 3). Under the agreement, Iconic has purchased the publishing and recorded music rights to Crosby’s catalog, which includes his solo work as well as his output as a member of The Byrds, Crosby, Stills & Nash, and the later Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. The deal also includes Crosby’s songs as a duo with Nash. “I’ve known David as a friend and have admired him as a great artist since our earliest days at Geffen Roberts Management shortly after I moved to Los Angeles,” Azoff said in a statement. “This is an incre...
SoundCloud Will Pay Independent Artists Based on Listeners, Not Streams
Effectively, if Taylor Swift gets 5% of all streams on Spotify in June, she and her label will get 5% of your monthly subscription fee, even if you never listened to one of her songs. But support has been swelling for a user-centric payment system, which would allow artists to get paid based on how many fans listen, instead of how many streams the artist accrues. Under SoundCloud’s “fan-powered” model, if a user paying $10 a month only listens to five artists, those five artists will get an equal split of that $10 — after SoundCloud takes its cut — no matter how many times the user listens to each of them. “Many in the...
After Selling Spinnin’ Records for $100M, Eelko van Kooten’s New Focus Is Influencers
It wasn’t long, however, before the Dutch exec started plotting his return to the music business. “I didn’t want to start a label or a publishing company, for me that was not special enough,” he says. “So I looked around at what was going on on the horizon of the music industry.” What he saw was a fast-evolving digital market where independent artists struggle to get their songs heard amid all the noise — and where social media stars have the power to break an unknown track or artist worldwide, often overnight. The solution van Kooten came up with was Ledo, a global digital distribution platform that partners artists, producers and songwriters with social media influencers to enable both parties to reach new audiences through creative collaborations. The Amsterdam-based platform laun...
The New Science Of Superfans
With fan data suddenly in the hands of artists, a revenue revolution is brewing. Deep Dive looks at the startups that are forging new paths for musicians to establish sustainable — and profitable — relationships with their fans; the tools that digital service providers are building to identify them; and other ways that rappers and rockers are turning their devotees into dollars. You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are looking for Dates Online. So we reimagined what a dating should be. It begins with giving you back power. Get to meet Beautiful people, chat and make money in the process. Earn rewards by chatting, sharing photos, blogging and help give users back their fair share of Internet revenue.
Junior H Rules Regional Mexican Albums Chart With ‘$ad Boyz 4 Life’
The Regional Mexican Albums chart ranks the most popular regional Mexican albums of the week in the U.S. based on multimetric consumption as measured in equivalent album units. Units comprise traditional album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). $ad Boyz 4 Life, released Feb. 12 via JHRH/Warner Latina, registered 6,000 SEA in its first tracking week, which equates to 8.3 million on-demand streams generated by the songs on the album. The 16-track set earns the 18-year-old his second Regional Mexican Albums No. 1 and fourth top five, all of which launched in less than a year, as Atrapado En Un Sueño, his sophomore debut and first entry on any Billboard album chart, debuted and peaked at No. 2 in April 2020 with 4,000 equivalent...
Daddy Yankee & Marc Anthony’s ‘De Vuelta Pa’ La Vuelta’ Hits No. 1 on Latin Airplay Chart
With 23 home runs, dating back to “Rompe” leading for 15 weeks in 2005, Yankee breaks away from a tie with Ozuna to become the third among all acts in terms of No. 1s, standing only behind Enrique Iglesias’ 31 leaders and J Balvin’s 27. Here’s the leaderboard of acts with at least 20 No. 1s on Latin Airplay: 31, Enrique Iglesias27, J Balvin23, Daddy Yankee22, Ozuna20, Maluma Marc Anthony, who ups his career count to 12, captures his first No. 1 since 2015 when “La Gozadera” ruled for one week in August. Over on Hot Latin Songs, which blends airplay, digital sales and streams, “De Vuelta” remains at No. 9 for a second week. It concurrently makes a dent in the sales realm, as it rebounds 8-6 on Latin Digital Song Sales with a little over 500 downloads sold. “Telepatía” Arrives: Back on Hot L...
Executive of the Week: Columbia Records Exec VP/Co-Head A&R Imran Majid
While buzz for “Calling My Phone” first began to simmer when the song was teased on TikTok, helping it vault into the top five of the Hot 100, Majid says the song’s success comes more from Columbia’s track record of artist development and trusting the A&R process. And Tjay, despite being just 19, is far from a brand new sensation, as his debut album, State of Emergency, reached No. 5 on the Billboard 200 in 2019, while Polo-Tjay collaboration “Pop Out” climbed all the way to No. 11 on the Hot 100 that same year. But “Calling My Phone” is a singular moment for the Bronx-born MC and one that Majid says reflects on Columbia as a destination for great music. Here, Majid talks the success of “Calling My Phone,” the crop of rising hip...
Live Nation Expects to Ramp Up Business in Three Months With Government Green Light
Live Nation CEO Michael Rapino shared new information Thursday (Feb. 25) about the company’s plans for the return of live music. Once the concert promoter gets government approval to operate above a 50% capacity in the majority of territories where it hosts concerts, Rapino estimates the rehiring of employees and rescaling of the company will take three months. “We’ve been talking to our global employees about that kind of timeline when we can [promote] our first show at scale,” Rapino told analysts and investors on a company conference call Thursday for the company’s year-end earnings report. During the three-month period, the company will “start bringing back marketing, production [and] all the kind venue functions” adding that the company can expect to ramp up “between the onsale or the...
Yung Bleu Scores First Top 10 on Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs Chart
Yung Bleu achieves a rookie career milestone as his song “You’re Mines Still” reaches the top 10 on Billboard’s Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart (dated Feb. 27). The track, which features Drake, ascends from No. 11 to crack the upper tier in its 14th week on the list. With the move, Yung Bleu, the 26-year-old singer-rapper from Mobile, Alabama, collects his first top 10 on Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs with his initial chart entry. Drake, meanwhile, adds his record-extending 80th visit to the region, further outpacing runner-up James Brown, who has 57. You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are looking for Dates Online. So we reimagined what a dating should be. It begins with giving you back power. Get to meet Beautiful people, chat and make money in the process. Earn rewards by chatting, shar...
Ciara Scores First Top 10 on Hot Gospel Songs Chart With Tasha Cobbs Leonard Collab
Leonard lands her 12th Hot Gospel Songs top 10, extending her mark for the most among women. Among all artists, she ties Marvin Sapp for the second-best sum. Kirk Franklin leads with 16, dating to the chart’s 2005 launch. The track is Ciara’s first Hot Gospel Songs entry, following her run of secular hits in the 2000s and ’10s. She arrived on the Billboard Hot 100 with five consecutive career-opening top three hits in 2004-05, among eight total to-date: “Goodies,” featuring Petey Pablo (her lone No. 1, for seven weeks); “1, 2 Step,” featuring Missy Elliott (No. 2); “Oh,” featuring Ludacris (No. 2); “Lose Control,” by Missy Elliott featuring Ciara and Fat Man Scoop (No. 3); and “Like You,” by Bow Wow featuring Cia...
