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D-I-Y Overt There: Indies Abroad Time-Bomb Songs AIMP Turns 20 Making the MIDEM Trip HANDS-ON AND HEALTHY: Today's Indies Are Involved And Doing A Better Job Than Ever 'Chasing The […]

Brian McKnight is a singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, musical arranger, record producer--even an actor, co-starring in the sitcom Sister Sister--who's been hanging platinum records on his walls for the past 10 [...]

This section offers news briefs related to the music industry in the U.S. as of December 10, 2016 including the death of former "Billboard" contributor Don Waller, the wedding of Mark Ballas and singer-songwriter BC Jean in Malibu, and the appointment of Ole Obermann as chief digital officer of Warner Music Group.

Byline: Hembree Brandon Don Waller celebrated his 81stbirthday April 6, commemorating not only eight decades of life, but nearly 60 years as a farmer, founder and owner of a successful [...]

11-17 Journalist Don Waller, who contributed to Billboard, the Los Angeles Times and others, died of lung cancer. He was [...]

Present-tense promotion means 'never a day without change or 10 things that need immediate attention.' Just as Jeff McClusky & Associates is more than a radio promotion firm, its success [...]

After two successful decades, the nation's premier radio-promotion-and-marketing firm provides hundreds of stations with a variety of services. But its foundation and driving force remains unchanged: an unflagging enthusiasm for [...]

THE BILLBOARD INTERVIEW ETTA JAMES Etta James' first taste of fame came at age 15, when she co-wrote and recorded 'The Wallflower' (a.k.a. 'Roll With Me Henry')--the answer record to [...]

Now celebrating her 50th year in the music business, Etta James can point with pride to an impressive catalog of her work. Currently available are 23 individual albums, a two-CD [...]

With Its Brand Of Mind-Blowing Mysticism And Eye-Popping Showmanship, EWF Has Created A Musical Legacy Earth, Wind & Fire has sold more than 20 million albums--including an astonishing six consecutive [...]

Plan may set precedent for annexations Plans for a 200-acre-plus business park that would push the boundaries of Chisago City into neighboring Wyoming Township, but preserve township tax revenue, could [...]

HOLLYWOOD After nearly a year of public sniping and speculation, BMG Entertainment and music industry giant Clive Davis have entered into a 50/50 joint agreement to form J Records. Terms [...]

A&R BY BILL FLANAGAN (RANDOM HOUSE; 342 PGS.; $23.95) Most novels about pop music fixate on how the troubled but talented recording artist gets screwed over by the big bad [...]

HOLLYWOOD The idea for satellite radio was hatched in 1990, long before radio was deregulated and owners were limited to less than 20 stations -- a far cry from today's […]

The potential of satellite radio can be gauged by Americans' love affair with their cars. Both Sirius and XM are banking on capturing some of these numbers: * 42% of […]

Dueling birds hope to land mobile auds Satellite radio. All those promises. One hundred national radio channels covering virtually every type of music with digital sound and, in many cases, [...]

HOLLYWOOD Having apparently exhausted the amount of settlement monies that can be collected from tobacco and gun industries, 28 states' attorneys general turned to the other great villain in the [...]

Universal's acquisition of indie music publishing giant Rondor Music from its co-founders Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss turns the Hollywood conglom into the world's No. 3 music publisher. The current [...]

HOLLYWOOD Napster, the maverick dot-commer that has wreaked havoc in the music biz, is learning the hard way that it's tough to survive in rogue waters of the copyright world. [...]

HOLLYWOOD Founded four years ago, DreamWorks Records is currently home to the eighth-bestselling album in the nation: 'Infest,' the debut effort from rock/hip-hop outfit Papa Roach. Driven by the hit [...]

HOLLYWOOD Despite the shakeup in Warner Bros.' film unit, the Warner Music Group has remained relatively crisis-free. While the pending AOL merger hangs over everyone's head -- and the benefits […]

HOLLYWOOD When music mogul Clive Davis unveils his new joint venture with BMG Entertainment -- a $100 million-plus, multi-year deal that the Arista Records founder would like to wrap up [...]

Scribe William Goldman's now-famed pronouncement about showbiz was 'Nobody knows anything.' Given the current battles raging over the Internet's free-wheeling distribution of entertainment, Goldman's dictum could be amended 'Nobody owns [...]

(HOUSE OF BLUES; 1,000 SEATS; $15) HOLLYWOOD Presented inhouse. Band: Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Chris Gage, Rob Gjersoe, Christine Albert, Brad Fordham. Reviewed May 13, 2000. Touring behind his first release [...]

HOLLYWOOD Singing "S' Wonderful," director Stanley Donen celebrated his being honored at ASCAP's 15th annual Film & TV Awards by dancing atop an onstage chair. The 76-year-old Donen received the […]

The recorded music business -- and the rest of Hollywood's creative community -- breathed a collective sigh of relief April 28. That's when a U.S. federal court ruled that MP3.com [...]

HOLLYWOOD Founded last year, New York City-based Artemis Records is focusing its artist development efforts on Kittie, a ferocious hard-rock quartet of Canadian schoolgirls (ages 1517) whose debut album, 'Spit,' [...]

'When I signed Train, they didn't have a following outside of the San Francisco Bay Area,' says Columbia Records Group senior VP/A&R Tim Devine. 'So the first thing we did [...]

Marketing-driven acts drown out fresh voices at music congloms As the number of record companies shrinks down to the Big Four, the number of records sold by acts discovered on [...]

Santana and Arista's Davis lead top nods to Old School HOLLYWOOD The Grammys were a Santana 'Supernatural' soiree all the way. For Clive Davis, the man who brought Carlos Santana [...]

HOLLYWOOD The National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences has absorbed the Music Producers Guild of the Americas. As a result, the org will form a Producers and Engineers Wing, [...]

ROGER VADIM Roger Vadim, the French director who propelled Brigitte Bardot to stardom with the 1956 pic 'And God Created Woman,' has died in Paris. He was 72. The filmmaker, [...]

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has become the third entertainment industry trade association to file suit against a Web-site operator for giving away access to copyrighted product via [...]

New Warner EMI catches riches in 'Net When Time Warner's Warner Music operations and EMI announced on Jan. 24 their intention to create a $20 billion company called Warner EMI [...]

He started out playing trumpet in his grade-school band, switched to electric bass when the Beatles hit, then co-founded White Wing Records, 'the coolest record store in Miles, Ohio' (a [...]

There are many. Chief among them is thinking like the labels it distributes. Currently celebrating its 20th anniversary, RED Distribution began in May 1979 as Important Record Distributors. As the [...]

HOLLYWOOD Jimmy and Doug's Farmclub.com, the online record label created by Interscope/Geffen/A&M co-chair Jimmy Iovine and Universal Music Group chair-CEO Doug Morris, has spawned a weekly TV show, "Farmclub.com," that's […]

'The perfect give-and-take' has characterized three decades of fruitful writing, producing and business collaboration. Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff were a songwriting partnership that blossomed into a record-production team that […]

The most successful start-up record label of the last decade has to be Atlanta-based LaFace Records. Founders/co-presidents Antonio 'L.A.' Reid and Kenneth 'Babyface' Edmonds first got together as the respective […]

'Ten years ago, the special-products business was about answering the phone and servicing song requests,' says Universal Music president of special markets Bruce Resnikoff. 'Nowadays, it has become a marketing [...]

'Ten years ago, the special-products business was about answering the phone and servicing song requests,' says Universal Music president of special markets Bruce Resnikoff. 'Nowadays, it has become a marketing [...]

'Punk rock is always going great, even when it's not the flavor of the month,' notes Caroline's director of purchasing and label relations Michael Bull. 'Historically, it's always been our […]