Items by By BEN SISARIO
NYT > Business
-
Media Decoder Blog: Beats Electronics in Talks With MOG Music
Posted: March 20th, 2012, 9:06pm EDT by By BEN SISARIO
Tags: [edit]
Beats, which was formed by the hip-hop star Dr. Dre and the record mogul Jimmy Iovine, is said to be near the final stages of negotiations to buy MOG, an online music service.
-
YouTube Channels Seek Advertisers and Audiences
Posted: March 12th, 2012, 1:17am EDT by By BEN SISARIO
Tags: [edit]
Some YouTube channels that were announced in October are beginning to provide content, raising hopes that they can attract enough subscribers to raise advertising rates.
NYT > Home Page
-
YouTube Channels Seek Advertisers and Audiences
Posted: March 12th, 2012, 12:35am EDT by By BEN SISARIO
Tags: [edit]
Some YouTube channels that were announced in October are beginning to provide content, raising hopes that they can attract enough subscribers to raise advertising rates.
-
4 of 7 Named in Megaupload Indictment Denied Bail in New Zealand
Posted: January 20th, 2012, 12:11pm EST by By BEN SISARIO
Tags: [edit]
Federal authorities said Megaupload was a global enterprise based on Internet piracy, and four people named in an indictment were denied bail in New Zealand on Friday.
NYT > Business
-
4 of 7 Named in Megaupload Indictment Denied Bail in New Zealand
Posted: January 20th, 2012, 6:52am EST by By BEN SISARIO
Tags: [edit]
Federal authorities said Megaupload was a global enterprise based on Internet piracy, and four people named in an indictment were denied bail in New Zealand on Friday.
-
Media Decoder Blog: Can Ron Paul Move the Charts? Kelly Clarkson May Not Prove It
Posted: January 5th, 2012, 7:33pm EST by By BEN SISARIO
Tags: [edit]
Mr. Paul took credit in Iowa for a spike in sales for Ms. Clarkson, who had recently endorsed him. But a discount in digital downloads may be the better explanation.
NYT > Home Page
-
Cee Lo Green Strikes Pop Star Gold, Without a Gold Album
Posted: December 26th, 2011, 3:10am EST by By BEN SISARIO
Tags: [edit]
Cee Lo Green, an entertainer devoted to the Liberace and Elton John school of showmanship, will earn about $20 million this year, and only a fraction of that is from his music.
NYT > Business
-
Cee Lo Green Strikes Pop Star Gold, Without a Gold Album
Posted: December 25th, 2011, 9:12pm EST by By BEN SISARIO
Tags: [edit]
Cee Lo Green, an entertainer devoted to the Liberace and Elton John school of showmanship, will earn about $20 million this year, and only a fraction of that is from his music.
-
Media Decoder Blog: The Show Is Starting, Please Turn On Your Cellphones
Posted: November 27th, 2011, 7:01pm EST by By BEN SISARIO
Tags: [edit]
The Tateuchi Center in Bellevue, Wash., is expected to have a policy of smartphone laissez-faire, as a bet that allowing technological engagement will draw younger audiences.
NYT > Home Page
-
Fugazi Live Series: A Post-Punk Band’s Archive of Shows
Posted: November 25th, 2011, 10:08pm EST by By BEN SISARIO
Tags: [edit]
The post-punk band Fugazi has been on hiatus since 2002, but it will release tapes of more than 800 shows from its archives.
NYT > Business
-
At Sony Music, a Plan to Dominate the Industry
Posted: November 8th, 2011, 9:48am EST by By BEN SISARIO
Tags: [edit]
Doug Morris, the new chief of Sony Music Entertainment, says his goal is to “create the pre-eminent record company in the world.”
-
Advertising: Pepsi Takes Active Role in ‘X Factor’
Posted: August 5th, 2011, 12:40am EDT by By BEN SISARIO
Tags: [edit]
Through Pepsi’s ads on “The X Factor” and next year’s Super Bowl commercial, the company will return to its tradition of big, splashy pop music commercials.
-
Ticket Sales Start-Up Aims at Smaller Box Offices
Posted: August 1st, 2011, 2:19am EDT by By BEN SISARIO
Tags: [edit]
Using a ticket system it created, Eventbrite has entered the multibillion-dollar ticketing industry and set its sights on events below Ticketmaster’s radar.
-
New Service Offers Music in Quantity, Not by Song
Posted: July 14th, 2011, 12:01am EDT by By BEN SISARIO
Tags: [edit]
Rather than selling individual tracks to be downloaded, Spotify, from Europe, sells subscriptions to vast catalogs of music.
-
AARP Begins an Internet Radio Service, Mixing Familiar Hits With New Artists
Posted: July 3rd, 2011, 8:10pm EDT by By BEN SISARIO
Tags: [edit]
Last month AARP introduced a free Internet radio service, with 18 channels programmed by the Concord Music Group, which releases music by baby boomer stars.
NYT > Home Page
-
ArtsBeat: Lady Gaga Album Zooms to Megahit Status
Posted: May 31st, 2011, 8:49pm EDT by By BEN SISARIO
Tags: [edit]
Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way” sold 1.108 million copies in the United States, the best-selling album in six years.
NYT > Business
-
Media Decoder: Major Record Labels Settle Suit With LimeWire
Posted: May 12th, 2011, 8:19pm EDT by By BEN SISARIO
Tags: [edit]
The major record companies on Thursday settled a copyright infringement lawsuit with LimeWire, a popular file-sharing network, according to a person with knowledge of the negotiations.
-
A Go-to Site for Tracking Music Acts
Posted: May 2nd, 2011, 1:07am EDT by By BEN SISARIO
Tags: [edit]
Songkick offers personalized news about live shows and an extensive Web home where fans can share their concert memories.
-
Media Decoder: EMI Taken Over by Citigroup, Making a Sale More Likely
Posted: February 1st, 2011, 8:04pm EST by By BEN SISARIO
Tags: [edit]
EMI, the legendary music company bought by private equity, has been taken over by Citigroup.
-
Music Web Sites Dispute Legality of Their Closing
Posted: December 20th, 2010, 1:20am EST by By BEN SISARIO
Tags: [edit]
Officials of two Web sites said a recently released warrant that was used to close their sites and others mischaracterized their activities as copyright infringement.
-
Putting Rumors to Rest, Howard Stern Renews His Sirius XM Contract
Posted: December 9th, 2010, 8:40pm EST by By BEN SISARIO
Tags: [edit]
The controversial host will remain on satellite radio until the end of 2015.
-
Media Decoder: LimeWire, After Lengthy Battle, to Shut Down Dec. 31
Posted: December 3rd, 2010, 7:32pm EST by By BEN SISARIO
Tags: [edit]
LimeWire, first sued by the major record companies in 2006, will shut down by the end of the year and close its sole office in New York.
NYT > Home Page
-
ArtsBeat: Eminem Leads Grammy Nominations
Posted: December 1st, 2010, 11:51pm EST by By BEN SISARIO
Tags: [edit]
With 10 nods for his comeback album, "Recovery," Eminem led the nominations for the 53rd annual Grammy Awards, which were announced on Wednesday night in a televised ceremony from Los Angeles.
NYT > Business
-
Media Decoder: Warner Music Reports Fourth-Quarter Loss
Posted: November 17th, 2010, 5:31pm EST by By BEN SISARIO
Tags: [edit]
Warner Music Group reported a loss as increases in the sales of digital downloads couldn't keep pace with the decline in CD sales.
-
Apple Begins Selling Beatles Downloads
Posted: November 16th, 2010, 8:20pm EST by By BEN SISARIO
Tags: [edit]
The band’s record label and company announced the decision, after years of wrangling by one of the last holdouts against digital music sales.
-
Paul McCartney Takes His Catalog to Concord Music
Posted: April 20th, 2010, 11:58pm EDT by By BEN SISARIO
Tags: [edit]
The EMI record label has suffered some prominent defections since it was bought by Terra Firma.
-
Sony and Michael Jackson Estate Sign Sweeping Contract
Posted: March 15th, 2010, 11:37pm EDT by By BEN SISARIO
Tags: [edit]
The deal gives Sony the rights to sell the artist’s back catalog and draw on a large vault of unheard recordings.
-
Ticketmaster Reaches Settlement on Complaints of Deceptive Sales
Posted: February 19th, 2010, 1:03am EST by By BEN SISARIO
Tags: [edit]
The Federal Trade Commission said that customers paid for expensive tickets that never existed.
-
New Web Services Turn Ticket Buying Into a Social Occasion
Posted: November 13th, 2009, 8:19pm EST by By BEN SISARIO
Tags: [edit]
Ticketfly is one of several tech-heavy young companies working to bring ticketing into the social-networking age.
NYT > Home Page
-
ArtsBeat: Michael Jackson Film to Be Released in October
Posted: August 10th, 2009, 4:08pm EDT by By BEN SISARIO
Tags: [edit]
Hours after a judge in Los Angeles approved a deal for a movie using footage of Michael Jackson's concert rehearsals, Sony announced that the film, "This Is It," would be released on Oct. 30 in theaters around the world.
NYT > Business
-
First Royalty Rates Set for Digital Music
Posted: October 3rd, 2008, 2:11am EDT by By BEN SISARIO
Tags: [edit]
A panel of federal judges ruled to renew the current royalty rate for CDs and other physical recordings, while setting rates for the first time for downloads, ring tones and other services.
-
For Record Companies, Optimism Isn’t Irrational
Posted: September 25th, 2008, 12:39am EDT by By BEN SISARIO
Tags: [edit]
The music industry is hoping an old truism will hold: that as a relatively low-cost commodity with sentimental attachments, music will prove recession-proof.
-
Nickelback Signs Up With Live Nation
Posted: July 9th, 2008, 12:19am EDT by By BEN SISARIO
Tags: [edit]
By signing the Canadian rock band, Live Nation took another step toward expanding its role at the center of the music industry.
-
Record Stores Fight to Be Long-Playing
Posted: April 18th, 2008, 5:07pm EDT by By BEN SISARIO
Tags: [edit]
Now added to the endangered species list in New York City: the neighborhood record store. But the survivors aren’t giving up just yet.