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Warner Music Losses Grow 44%, Revenue Flat Despite Digital Gains Shazam-enabled Grammys connect fans with the music [with video] Backbeat: Esperanza Spalding, Anthony Hamilton Perform @ Grammy in the Schools Live! The Music Business in Five: CMU

Vibe magazine chops it up with KRS-One as he breaks down his entire catalogue. Very interesting read, as KRS speaks on what happened whilst creating some of the best classics of Hip-Hop, starting with his Boogie Down Productions days. KRS-One on "Criminal Minded": "Me and Scott La Rock (DJ and co-founder of Boogie Down Productions ) started B Boy Records, which was a small little record company, with some other guys— Ray Wilson , Jack Allen and Bill Kamarra . That's where we put out 'South Bronx.' Before all this, [...]

RIAA chief hits back at Wikipedia and Google over SOPA protests Good Morning! Converse, Gorillaz, Dotcom, McCartney, iLike, Kobalt, Ticketfly... Rock Hall adds 6 groups to list of inductees Facebook Hits A New Record High Value Of At Least $103.4 Billion Adele's '212 is #1 for 19th time

Radio: From Tesla To Turntable.fm [INFOGRAPHIC] Facebook's Mobile Plan: Carrier Billing, Analytics For Apps Via Bango Deal? Business Matters: Vevo Should Pay Up, Say Songs Music, Downtown, TuneCore UK Music launches diversity charter Unbundling the Album: A Business Case for Releasing Single Songs

Hear-Like-Buy: Why Spotify Is Marketing, Not Commerce Verizon, Redbox plan Netflix challenge ReDigi Successfully Fends Off EMI's Preliminary Injunction To Shutter Site Rdio shows Android love with totally new app Good Morning! Super Bowl, M.I.A., Voice, X Factor, Rdio, Bandsintown, Grammys...

Bonnaroo's First Decade Nets $5 Million To Charities 2012 Grammys Embrace Digital, Mobile and Social Media Good Morning! M.I.A., Sister Sledge, Sony Music, Madonna, Tiesto, Spotify, Facebook... Warner pulled into digital royalties dispute via Sister Sledge lawsuit Tone Deaf Madonna Film survives amid digital world

iTunes Match Is Ruining The Lives Of Customers And Rappers By Censoring Explicit Tracks Doubling Ticket Sales and Breaking Industry Records, Ticketfly Starts 2012 With a Bang! SXSW Accelerator Names Music Tech Finalists Shazam Goes All Superbowl On Us… Is Audio the New QR Code?

AmazonMP3 Pulls All TuneCore Tracks In EU & UK, Distributor Alleges Payment Issues Pirate Bay and co-founder respond to Supreme Court decision Sony sees $2.9 billion loss, new CEO warns of pain Bruce Springsteen Playing Exclusive Apollo Concert for SiriusXM Subscribers Facebook's $5bn IPO doc reveals $3.7bn revenues and $1bn ...

Vivo Earned $150 million in Revenue Last Year Says CEO Rio Caraeff Neil Young: 'Digital Is Degrading Our Music, Not Improving It…' Music Marketing With Free SoundCloud Story Wheel Sony's Kazuo Hirai to Replace Howard Stringer as CEO Warner Music Group Chairman Loves Spotify, Calls Google Music an "oxymoron"

Nada Surf – "When I was Young" Video + Fallon Performance MPme, Crowdsurfing, Wild Chords and Webdoc win the music-focused Midemlab Competition Folklorist's Global Jukebox Goes Digital Twitter Is Not a Media Company, CEO Says MIDEM 2012: Round Up (Orchard, CueSongs, LyricFind, SoundCloud, WebDoc) The Sky is Rising: The Entertainment ...

Nas is giving away tickets to Madden Bowl this Thursday night in Indy!! Event Details: Madden Bowl XVIII On Thursday, February 2nd, 2012 At the Bud Light Hotel in Indianapolis, IN Doors open at 7pm/Tournament starts at 8pm Live Performances by The Roots and Nas start at 11pm Contest Rules: - ENTER AS OFTEN AS YOU WISH! - 2 Winners will be selected - Each winner will receive 1 pair of tickets - Winners are responsible for their own [...]

WebdocAnnounces Deals With SoundCloud, Songkick & Topspin @ #Midem Seymour Stein Honored With Billboard's Icon Award @MIDEM Richard Gottehrer, Ice-T, Talking Heads Honor Billboard Icon Seymour Stein 'Shellac In His Veins': The Billboard Icon Award Interview With Seymour Stein Google is the problem, U2 manager tells MIDEM Liveblog: Google, UMG, ...

Spotify Now Has 3 Million Paying Subscribers Worldwide... Good Morning! LyricFind, Music Reports, RealNetworks, Murfie, Rhapsody, FOMC, Stones Throw, UMG, Skrillex... Rhapsody officially acquires Napster International, eyes European launch Who is benefiting from the Mega shutdown? And were Mega's D2F plans behind the major labels' attack? Kylie Minogue re-records old ...

EMI VP criticises 'incorrect' SOPA/PIPA legislation Rhapsody buys Napster's UK and German services Why Young Music Fans Buy Vinyl - and the Apps That Can Help Them Insanely Complicated Royalty Negotiations? There's Now an App for That... Beyond Oblivion files for bankruptcy protection

Today's Top Stories: Facebook Timeline, Apple's Amazing Quarter, Google Privacy Policy Jammit Lets Budding Rock Stars Play Along With, Isolate, AndRecord Over The "Masters" Google to Merge User Data Across More Services, Raises Privacy Concerns 46 Billion Reasons Why the iCloud Can Still Beat Spotify... Who Knew? Myspace Has A ...

Senate Postpones PIPA Vote Facebook In Talks To Replace YouTube As VEVO's Host Rdio, Rara Launch Subscription Streaming Service In Australia Scott Perry Talks To Spotify: The Case FOR Day & Date Streaming Digital Music News Officially Responds To Grooveshark's Subpoena Demands Robert Levine On How Much Online Music Is ...

The State Of Online Music [Stats & Analysis] Facebook Plans To Share More of Your Activities-Will It Go Too Far? Ticket Sellers Launch Online Store On Facebook 2/3rds Of All Vinyl Records Are Sold At Indie Record Stores SOPA Explodes On Twitter, Generates 2.4 Million Tweets

VEVO Attracted 53.5M Unique Visitors In December SoundExchange Payments To Musicians, Rightsholders Up 17% Last Year Grooveshark Forced Offline In Germany By Copyright Organization Concert Locator ConcertCrowd Adds Streaming Audio German Music Sales Stabilized In 2011With Teeth: 3 Music Discovery Services That Actually Deliver

iTunes Match Expands Across Europe, Latin America eMusic Report Outlines UK Digital Music Buyer Groups Google Tackles Online Privacy In Unusual Ad Blitz Clear Channel Rebrands With New Name Guns Don't Kill People, Headphones Do...Or Do They?

Public Enemy is back in full force this year with plans to drop not one but two albums. Most of My Heroes Don't Appear on No Stamp drops in June and the follow-up album, The Evil Empire of Everything, drops in September. Chuck D recently spoke with Billboard and described the albums as "two concise statements that are connected in the same breath." However, the free charity concerts seem the most intriguing with plans to play on the eve of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day and the Operation: Skid Row Festival that benefits the [...]