Decades After Her Death, Fans Are Still Crazy About Patsy Cline
WINCHESTER, Va. (Top40 Charts/ Shenandoah University) - At a time in American history characterized by the Cold War, stay-at-home moms, social suppression and suburbia, how did the beer-drinking, rule-breaking, fringe-wearing, divorced, high school drop-out Patsy Cline emerge? On Friday, April 4, the ...
| Napster and Ericsson Launch Mobile Music Service for UK's Leading Wireless Carrier - O2 UK
LOS ANGELES, CA. (Top40 Charts/ Napster) - Napster and Ericsson today announced the launch of the Napster Mobile music service with O2 UK, the leading wireless carrier serving the UK market with more than 18 million subscribers. Co-developed by Napster and Ericsson, Napster Mobile is a premium music ...
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Accenture and Universal Music Group Sign Long-Term Digital Supply Chain Contract
LONDON, UK. (Top40 Charts/ Accenture) - Accenture has been selected to provide the next-generation digital supply chain for the international division of Universal Music Group, the world's largest music company. The long-term agreement is designed to help Universal Music further adapt its business ...
| EMI to remain a member of IFPI
London, UK. (Top40 Charts/ IFPI) - Leading record company EMI has announced it will remain a member of IFPI, the trade association that represents the recording industry worldwide. IFPI represents more than 1,400 members in over 73 countries and works with affiliated national groups in 48 countries. ...
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T-Mobile Sidekick Announces Partnership With The Recording Academy to Create the 50th GRAMMY Celebration Concert Tour
LOS ANGELES, CA. (Top40 Charts/ T-Mobile USA) - T-Mobile USA, Inc. and The Recording Academy have announced the 50th GRAMMY Celebration Concert Tour presented by T-Mobile Sidekick. The tour will provide music and Sidekick fans exclusive access to a concert tour featuring a broad lineup of GRAMMY-nominated ...
| The Orchard Launches Transformative Suite of Digital Sales & Marketing Label Tools
Latest Innovation Enables Artists and Labels to Harness Real-Time Sales Analytics via an Intuitive Web Interface NEW YORK & AUSTIN, Texas (Top40 Charts/ Orchard Records) - The Orchard, a global leader in digital music, video and new media services, today announced at the South By Southwest (SXSW) Music ...
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JAKKS Pacific Signs Top Country Star Taylor Swift for Toy License
MALIBU, CA. (Top40 Charts/ JAKKS Pacific) - JAKKS Pacific, Inc. announced today that it has signed a worldwide licensing agreement through Creative Artists Agency, the entertainment and sports agency, to develop and market toys and related products based on the award-winning and double-platinum American ...
| WMC 2008: Basic NYC's Miami Madness Returns To South Beach Hotel
New York, NY. (Top40 Charts/ Winter Music Conference PR) - Celebrating their fifth straight year of presenting some of Miami's most infamous WMC events, Basic NYC is back at the Beach Plaza Hotel for the 2008 Winter Music Conference. Once again, they will be doubling the fun with parties of all sounds ...
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VH1 Save the Music Celebrates 'Music In Our Schools Month' This March With Series of High-Profile Events and in School Demonstrations
NEW YORK, NY. (Top40 Charts/ VH1) - On the heels of its recent 10th Anniversary celebration, The VH1 Save The Music Foundation kicks-off a new decade with the help of artists including the legendary Rolling Stones, Lenny Kravitz, Natasha Bedingfield and more to help put musical instruments in the hands ...
| Kohl's Partners With Rocker Avril Lavigne For New Juniors' Lifestyle Brand To Launch July 2008
MENOMONEE FALLS, WIS. (Top 40 Charts/ Kohl's Corporation) - Kohl's Corporation and Avril Lavigne today announced the launch of Abbey Dawn, a new juniors' lifestyle brand. Kohl' s will be the exclusive U.S. retailer for the brand which will feature new fashion collections updated every 60 days. The ...
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More Than 200,000 Artists Now Manage Pages on Facebook, hi5, Bebo, and beyond Using iLike Dashboard
SEATTLE, WA. (Top40 Charts/ iLike) - iLike, the leading social music discovery service, today announced that more than 200,000 musicians, including leading artists from all genres of music, are actively using the iLike Universal Artist Dashboard to manage an online presence syndicated across Facebook, ...
| Sony Creative Software Loop Library Subscription Program Debuts with New Indie Rock Collection
MADISON, WIS. (Top40 Charts/ Sony Creative Software) - Sony Creative Software, a leading provider of professional video, audio and music production applications, today announced the launch of Black Paint: Indie Rock Anthems, a new royalty-free loop library featuring the eager and endearing sounds of ...
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PassAlong Networks Adds Wind-up Records' Music Catalog to Digital Library
FRANKLIN, TN. (Top40 Charts/ PassAlong Networks) - Media distribution developer PassAlong Networks today announced the addition of Wind-up Records' music catalog to its StoreBlocks™ digital music library. Wind-up Records, the largest independently owned and operated label in the United States, ...
| EMI Music Publishing Extends Agreement with QTRAX
NEW YORK, NY. (Top 40 Charts/ QTRAX) - EMI Music Publishing has signed an extension to its digital distribution licensing agreement with QTRAX, the free and legal ad-supported peer to peer music network. "EMI Music Publishing came on board with QTRAX very early because we believed that this concept ...
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Festivalink To Partner With The Savannah Music Festival
Nashville, Tenn. (Top40 Charts/ By Kissy Black/ Lotos Nile Media) - The Savannah Music Festival (SMF), Georgia's largest musical arts celebration, is one of the most distinctive cross genre music festivals in the world. In its long history, the 17-day long SMF has built an archive of recordings documenting ...
| Grammy Foundation Now Accepting Applications For Fourth Annual Grammy Camp To Be Held At University Of Southern California This Summer
Santa Monica, CA. (Top40 Charts/ Recording Academy) - WHO: GRAMMY Award-winning and -nominated professionals, industry specialists affiliated with The Recording Academy and high school students from across the United States. Past teaching artists include: recording artist Brandi Carlile; GRAMMY Award-winning ...
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Universal Music Group (UMG) To Acquire Univision Music Group
LOS ANGELES, CA. and NEW YORK, NY. (Top40 Charts/ Universal Music Group) - Universal Music Group (UMG), the world's leading music company, and Univision Communications Inc., the leading Spanish-language media company in the U.S., today announced a definitive agreement under which UMG will acquire Univision ...
| South by Southwest (SXSW) Music Conference & Festival - Making Connections
AUSTIN, TX. (Top40 Charts/ SXSW PR) - Music industry professionals from around the globe are finding the best way to make lasting connections with others in the industry in a short amount of time is by attending the South by Southwest (SXSW) Music Conference and Festival, Wednesday, March 12 through ...
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Music Industry Seminar 2008: The Resurrection of Urban Music
ORLANDO, FL. (Top40 Charts/ Fourth Quarter Entertainment) - What do the Urban Music and Real Estate Market have in common? They're both in the midst of collapse and those who think they can survive with the old model stand to have their dreams foreclosed on. Labels are going bankrupt, stars are broke, ...
| iTunes Now No2 Music Retailer In The USA; iTunes Customers Top 50 Million
CUPERTINO, Calif. (Top40 Charts/ Apple Inc.) - Apple today announced that iTunes (https://www.itunes.com) is now the number two music retailer in the US, behind only Wal-Mart, based on the latest data from the NPD Group*. Apple also announced that there are now over 50 million iTunes Store customers. ...
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