Music Industry 2.0
MTV’s Video Music Awards will return to their intimate New York roots this summer. The 23rd annual edition of the event will take place August 31 at the 6,000-capacity Radio City Music Hall and will air live on the music cable network.
The South By Southwest Music Festival is so big, and there’s so much music, that it’s hard to tell what’s an official SXSW show and what’s not. Some say it doesn’t really matter.
Shows and parties are popping up all over town and will continue through Sunday. The Austin Convention Center was packed with bands from all over the world registering for the festival on Wednesday.
In two decades, the festival has grown from 200 bands and 700 people registering to a staggering 1,400 bands and more than 8,000 registrants.
The Winter Music Conference International Dance Music Awards is right around the corner. Support can be shown by voting for www.1club.fm ballot number 14 for Best Internet Dance Radio Station. Visitors are also encouraged to write Steve “Silk” Hurley in the ballot number 38 entry for Life Time Achievement Award. (more…)
Digital Media Wire, the industry’s leading digital entertainment and media news, event and information provider, today announced an impressive list of 50+ speakers and an agenda packed with cutting-edge and timely topics for its 6th Annual Digital Music Forum and Mobile Music Leadership Summit (www.digitalmusicforum.com) to be held at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York City on Tuesday, February 28 through Wednesday, March 1, 2006. (more…)
So, just 4.6m viewers for the Brit Awards – and a strange echo of last week’s Grammy Awards, which secured figures of 15.1m in the US, compared to the 28.3m achieved for the American Idol final.
In contrast to the UK’s premier music awards show, X Factor gathered 9.2m, Strictly Come Dancing 10.4m. But both of these shows were Saturday night shows, and can barely be compared to the Brits.
It’s difficult to imagine the Grammy awards committee weighing the merits of Missy Elliott’s “Lose Control” against those of 50 Cent’s “Candy Shop.”Somehow the thought of stuffy Recording Academy members doesn’t mesh with chrome rims, blue cognac and scantily clad video vixens.
But it’s reality. Now more than ever, the influence of rap music and its mainstream ambassadors reaches past the pop charts and into pop culture. In 2005, Reebok launched its “I Am What I Am” sneaker campaign featuring 50 Cent and Jay-Z alongside major athletes. Increasingly, rappers such as Queen Latifah, L.L. Cool J and Ice Cube star in major motion pictures; and last November, Vanity Fair unveiled its first ever hip-hop issue.
The shortlist has been selected by a panel consisting of 12 media professionals representing Irish print, radio and TV from the four corners of the island.
The overall Album of the Year will be selected by this judging panel at the Choice Music Prize event at Vicar Street, Dublin on Tuesday February 28th. (more…)
Leeds rockers the Kaiser Chiefs and former British army captain James Blunt have followed their explosion on to the music scene with five nominations each at the Brit Awards.
Blunt is up for British male solo artist, album of year, pop act, breakthrough act and British single, marking a resurgence for singer-songwriters.
Leeds five-piece Kaiser Chiefs are nominated for British group, album, live act, rock act and British breakthrough act.
EMI Music Earns 54 Grammy Nominations Including Honors in Key Categories “Album of the Year,” “Record of the Year,” “Song of the Year” and “Producer of the Year”
Artists Martha Argerich, The Chemical Brothers, Coldplay, Fatboy Slim, Gorillaz, LCD Soundsystem, Paul McCartney, Les Paul, and Producer Jermaine Dupri Garner Multiple Nominations and Nods in Top Categories
Other EMI Nominated Artists Include Terence Blanchard, Steven Curtis Chapman, Daft Punk, John Hammond, Herbie Hancock, Intocable, Wynton Marsalis, Kylie Minogue, Bonnie Raitt, The Rolling Stones, Anoushka Shankar and Keith Urban, Among Others (more…)
SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT received a total of 125 GRAMMY nominations earlier today from the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences (NARAS). The 48th Annual GRAMMY Awards ceremony will be held at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California on Wednesday, February 8, 2006.
SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT is a global recorded music joint venture with a roster of current artists that includes a broad array of both local artists and international superstars, as well as a vast catalog that comprises some of the most important recordings in history. SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT is 50% owned by Bertelsmann A.G. and 50% owned by Sony Corporation of America. (more…)