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BILLBOARD CONTINUES AN annual holiday tradition by offering a bounty of year-end charts in this Year in Music & Touring report. * Once again the total number of year-end recaps [...]

Top Artists Pos. ARTIST (No. Charted Titles) Imprint/Label 1 AKON (4) Konvict/ Upfront/SRC/Universal Motown (1) Konvict/Upfront/SRC/Universal Motown/UMRG (1) Interscope (1) Konvict/Nappy Boy/ Jive/Zomba (1) Full Surface/Interscope (1) Big Gates/Slip-N-Slide/Atlantic (1) [...]

As the Island Def Jam Music Group announced that it is expanding opportunities for artists to develop and thrive, the company has entered into a joint-venture partnership with Matt Galle's [...]

Cricket Communications, a provider of wireless services, has announced Muve Music content with the release of the January Muve Headliner artist, Multi-Platinum Recording Superstar Young Jeezy. During the month of [...]

Philadelphia-based rapper Asher Roth has announced that his sophomore album will drop on the Def Jam Recordings in March of 2012, according to a release from Island Def Jam Music [...]

Norwegian production duo Stargate have blazed a huge trail across pop during the past decade. Demand for their magic touch is bigger now than ever, with superstars such as Katy [...]

'Every Stargate production has its own identity, from Rihanna to Katy Perry to Wiz Khalifa. They don't impose their sound or identity on the artist, they customise. They go in [...]

ENTERTAINMENT CLOSE-UP-3 December 2008-Island Def Jam and Thumbplay Offer Jay-Z Videos for Mobile(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Island Def Jam Music Group, a division of Universal Music Group (UMG), and [...]

ENTERTAINMENT CLOSE-UP-19 November 2008-Island Def Jam Music Group Names SVP(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Jeff Straughn has been appointed Senior Vice President, Strategic Marketing, Island Def Jam Music Group, it [...]

Universal has announced that it is relaunching Mercury Records as a division of Island Def Jam Music Group, with former Sony BMG executive David Massey appointed as president. Massey, who [...]

NEW YORK--At the tender age of 13, Christina Milian was already actively singing, dancing, and acting professionally. The 20-year-old artist brings those years of experience to her eponymous Def Soul [...]

HILVERSUM -- Is this the best marriage of rock and rap since Walk This Way? The Island Def Jam Group's worldwide acquisition of 50% of Amsterdam-based Roadrunner unites a world […]

The Island Def Jam Music Group has paid $33m to acquire 50% of Roadrunner Records, home of acts including Slipknot, Coal Chamber and Fear Factory. Initial releases under the joint [...]

With the success of such soundtracks as 'The Nutty Professor,' 'Nutty Professor II: The Klumps,' 'Rush Hour' and most recently 'The Fast and the Furious,' the Island Def Jam Music [...]

Producer and label executive Rick Rubin is moving his American Recordings, complete with back catalog and current roster, from Columbia Records to Island Def Jam Music Group, sources said last [...]

Deal transfers roster, catalog from Col Producer and label executive Rick Rubin is moving his famed American Recordings, complete with back catalog and current roster, from Columbia Records to Island [...]

NEW YORK--American Hi-Fi is living the proverbial American dream, rock'n'roll style. According to lead singer/guitarist Stacy Jones, the band has achieved success the old-fashioned way: through hard work and persistence. [...]

ISLAND/DEF JAM MUSIC GROUP is teaming with another Vivendli Universal property, entertainment site flipside.com, to promote its acts through multimedia games. At the flipside site, players will match pictures of [...]

Thirteen-year-old songstress Mikaila is Island/Def Jam Music Group's latest offering to the teen-pop craze. The singer was signed to the label by former Jive Records A & R executive Jeff [...]

LOS ANGELES--Jay-Z, DMX, and Ja Rule are among the Def Jam hip-hop artists whose music will undergo the interactive, animated digital-video treatment under a newly announced production agreement between Island [...]

Seasoned chart watchers know that when a single or album posts a sufficient gain in chart points over the previous week, that title earns a bullet. Usually the records that [...]

Imprint Will Release Both Domestic & International R&B/Hip-Hop Acts TOKYO--Is the world ready for a Japanese Eminem? Finding that kind of home-grown talent is a top priority for Universal Music [...]

Following the opening of a local office in Germany, Island/Def Jam plans to set up shop in 15-20 other territories, beginning with Japan, Russia, and Poland. The label, which will […]

FOLLOWING THE OPENING of a local office in Germany, sources say that Island/Def Jam Music Group plans to set up shop in 15-20 other territories, beginning with Japan, Russia, and [...]

LONDON-John Reid, former president of Island/Def Jam Music Group in the U.S., is looking forward to revisiting former ground and linking up with longtime allies after recrossing the Atlantic to [...]

NEW YORK--Music is definitely the message for Roni Size/Reprazent. The Bristol, England-based collective--consisting of Suv, Dynamite MC, Die, Krust, Onallee, and front and Size--is following up its Mercury Music Award-winning [...]

JANET AT THE READY: The anticipation for Janet's first retail single in two years is so intense that 2,000 units of 'Doesn't Really Matter' (Def Jam/Def Soul/Island) are scanned in [...]

RECORD COMPANIES. Matt Signore is promoted to senior VP of planning for the Island/Def Jam Music Group in New York. He was VP of finance for Island Records. Mark Shimmel [...]

THE MAJOR RECORD labels may still be gingerly testing the potential of the Internet as a vehicle for delivering music to consumers, but they have wholeheartedly embraced it as a [...]

LONDON -- Universal is paving the way for the rest of the music industry by tailoring the soundtrack to its US summer blockbuster The Nutty Professor II to each specific […]

Universal Music Group is attempting to coordinate its international marketing strategy for big US soundtrack releases by developing a plan that focuses on domestic talent in key overseas territories. The [...]

Head Of Universal Affiliate Will Report To U.S. Executive BERLIN--Four weeks before Sony Music was to relocate all of its labels in the new German capital of Berlin--the first of [...]

NEW YORK--In creating and marketing the opus 'Pay Attention,' the Mighty Mighty Bosstones and their label, Island/Def Jam Music Group, have made pleasing die-hard fans the primary focus. Due in [...]

NEW YORK--As one of the undisputed catalysts of the ongoing teen-pop movement, Hanson has a lot to prove with its long-anticipated Island/Def Jam opus 'This Time Around,' which is slated [...]

NEW YORK--Shelby Lynne's acclaimed Island Records album, 'I Am Shelby Lynne,' was released in January, but the marketing strategy commenced more than a year earlier, right at the formation of [...]

Top Gospel Artists 1 KIRK FRANKLIN (1) B-Rite/Interscope Pos. ARTIST (No. Of Charted Albums) Imprint/Label (1) Gospo Centric/Interscope 2 T.D. JAKES (2) Integrity/Word/Epic (1) Island Inspirational/IDJMG 3 TRIN-I-TEE 5:7 (1) […]

Hot Adult Contemporary Artists Pos. ARTIST (No. Of Charted Tracks) Imprint/Label 1 SHANIA TWAIN (5) Mercury/IDJMG 2 BACKSTREET BOYS (4) Jive 3 SARAH McLACHLAN (1) Arista (1) Warner Sunset/Reprise 4 […]

Top R&B/Hip-Hop Artists Pos. ARTIST (No. Of Charted Singles & Albums) Imprint/Label 1 R. KELLY (8) Jive (1) Bad Boy/Arista 2 LAURYN HILL (6) Ruffhouse/Columbia (1) Ruffhouse/Columbia/CRG (1) Columbia/Island/IDJMG 3 […]

Ah, December, the month of Santa and reindeer, the menorah and dreidels ... and rappers, of course. The week after Christmas has been a big one for rap album sales […]

JOHNNY BARBIS is exiting as executive VP of Island/Def Jam Music Group. A well-placed source says group chairman Jim Caparro and Barbis gathered staff June 23 to announce the departure; […]

Here's a roundup of notable sessions and programs at the Radio Show in Orlando, Fla. The NAB Education Foundation, in partnership with the Broadcast Education Association, starts the show on [...]

The roster of acts performing at this fall's City of Hope gala honoring Universal Music Group chairman/CEO Doug Morris included Maroon 5, signed to A&M Records; Mariah Carey and Rihanna, [...]

The music and advertising worlds will converge Sept. 26 during the Billboard/Adweek Music Upfront at the B.B. King Blues Club & Grill in New York. One of Advertising Week 2007's [...]