David Geffen has gifted Avery Fisher Hall, the home of the New York Philharmonic with a $100 million donation. Unsurprisingly, the venue will become David Geffen Hall.
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Verve Music Group has officially upped Mike Rittberg to GM, reporting to Chairman David Foster. Based in the company's Santa Monica offices, Rittberg will oversee operations, artist development and release schedule, interface with Interscope Geffen A&M (which handles sales, marketing and film/TV licensing for Verve) and pretend to understand jazz.
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In the aftermath of the BRITs, critics' choice James Bay moves #12-4 at BBC Radio 1 with "Hold Back the River," while winners Royal Blood and Sam Smith fly up 20 or spots apiece. Meanwhile, Ben Howard, Fall Out Boy, Olly Murs, BRIT winner Paloma Faith and some surviving Beach Boys are among the playlisted.
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RCA's Kelly Clarkson, fresh off her history of duets with Jimmy Fallon (and a brace of national magazine covers), is set to have next week's biggest album chart and SPS bow. Here's a look at the week's key debuts.
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What would you do without it? That’s a rhetorical question. We suiggest that you memorize the this week's Top 10.
Guardians of the Galaxy, The Fault in Our Stars and Neighbors lead the field of nominees for the 2015 edition of the MTV Movie Awards with seven nominations each, while Ansel Elgort and Seth Rogen are tied for individual noms with five apiece.
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Here’s a surprising stat, occurring as it does deep into a period when the single is king: Album sales are virtually flat year to date. What’s more, 12 albums have had 100k+ weeks during the first two months of this year vs. five at this point last year, while seven albums debuted with 100k or more vs. just two last year. Which proves the old saw that you’ve gotta release records to sell records. Releasing good records makes even more sense.
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Aloe Blacc has criticized Spotify’s rates, but he doesn’t feel Taylor Swift should’ve yanked her music off the service. He told Page Six: “Musicians shouldn’t block their music…and probably shouldn’t remove their songs... We’re gonna fight our fights in Congress… I’m sure things will change. Streaming services are the way forward… It’s just a matter of getting the laws to work for the songwriter and…for the artist.” Blacc has said that “Wake Me Up,” his 2013 hit with Avicii, got 168m streams, but the three writers earned a piddling $12k.
Today it was announced that a bipartisan group of Congresspeople and Senators has reintroduced the Songwriter Equity Act, which would allow federal rate courts to look at the fair market value of a composition when establishing digital performance rates.
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Kelly Clarkson went way beyond the call of duty promoting her new RCA set Piece by Piece Monday on The Tonight Show, with a big assist from the host.
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