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LOS ANGELES (CelebrityAccess) — While much of the live entertainment industry is banking on a big return for live events in early 2021, ...
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Billboard’s New Chart Rules
Who woulda thunk streaming would break the charts? The charts are for the industry. “Billboard” has to play nice or companies will find ...
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Workingman’s Dead 50th
I first heard “Uncle John’s Band” on WNEW-FM. It was June of 1970, the track was released as a single. Needless to say ...
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Updated: Rod MacSween On Agents, Rob Light Responds
Editor’s note: In a recent edition of the Lefsetz Letter, noted industry commentator Bob Lefsetz raised the question of if acts still need ...
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Navigating The Gauntlet
Your opinion counts. But if you express it, expect blowback. There is no center. You are in charge as much as anybody. Theoretically ...
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Little Richard
He was a hero to our heroes. By time we came along, he was already a preacher. Yes, our heroes were born during ...
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Music Industry Snapshot
LABELS Are doing quite well. The majority of their income comes from subscription services, and subscriptions keep going up. Sure, there has been ...
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The Fiona Apple Album
Well, it doesn’t sound like anything else. As a matter of fact, it resembles nothing so much as an early seventies experimentation, when ...
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The Bob Lefsetz Podcast: SOCAN’s Michael McCarty
Chief Membership & Business Development Officer of SOCAN, Michael McCarty is a member of the Canadian Music Industry Hall of Fame. McCarty started ...
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