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Ticketmaster is in the process of reinventing itself as a one-stop shop for all of an artist's business needs: ticketing, promotion, management and now the distribution of music. "The biggest misconception about this [Front Line] deal is that Ticketmaster in the future will be what it was in the past," recently minted Ticketmaster head Irving Azoff told Billboard . "The new name of the company is Ticketmaster Entertainment, and it's a platform for us to build a lot of other things. The fortunes of this company aren't going to rise and fall just on [...]