Apl.de.Ap of the Black Eyed Peas Launches Worldwide Search for New Artists for His Record Label Jeepney Music
New York, NY (Top40 Charts/ TicketNetwork/ Jeepney Music) - Multi-platinum Grammy Award-winning recording artist Apl.de.Ap of the Black Eyed Peas today announced his global search for emerging artists. In an unprecedented measure, Apl.de.Ap founder of Jeepney Music (www.jeepneymusic.com) is calling ...
| PRS For Music And YouTube Sign A New Licensing Deal
LONDON, UK (Top40 Charts/ PRS For Music) - Songwriters, composers and the YouTube community benefit as licence is concluded and premium music videos return to YouTube. PRS for Music and YouTube have announced a new licensing agreement that covers music contained in videos streamed via the online video ...
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WaTunes to Become the New MySpace?
New York, NY (Top40 Charts/ TicketNetwork / WaTunes) - WaTunes, the world's first free online music distribution service that enables artists to sell their music entirely free on iTunes has announced its official release date of their new music site WaTunes New Experience. WaTunes New Experience is ...
| Three strikes against CD pirate traders in Australia
LONDON, UK (Top40 Charts/ IFPI) - Victoria Police last week closed down a significant piracy operation on the outskirts of Melbourne - one of three important successes recently achieved in the fight against music disc piracy in Australia. Working in conjunction with anti-piracy groups Music Industry ...
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TicketLiquidator's Ticket of the Week: The KISS Alive 35 Tour
New York, NY (Top40 Charts/ TicketNetwork/ TicketLiquidator) - TicketLiquidator, the leading provider of the world's most extensive ticket inventory for hard-to-find, low-priced tickets, announced today that KISS tickets are available for purchase at affordable prices on TicketLiquidator.com KISS, ...
| MTV And OurStage Announce Partnership To Engage Emerging Artists And Their Fans
BOSTON, MA. (Top40 Charts/ Apex Exposure) - August 26, 2009 -MTV and OurStage (https://www.OurStage.com), the leading music discovery destination providing professional opportunities for top-ranked emerging artists, today announced an ongoing partnership to create engaging experiences for up-and-coming ...
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Live Nation Continues Its Blow-Out Summer Concert Ticket Sale With $10 All-In Lawn Tickets And $15 All-In Reserved, With Absolutely No Service Fees, This Wednesday!
New York, NY (Top40 Charts/ Live Nation) - Summer may be drawing to a close, but live music fans still want the ticket savings that have been a part of Wednesdays all season long. So Live Nation is giving fans another chance to see summer concerts under the stars and to get tickets at savings of up ...
| Diamond Music Group And TBG Entertainment Join Forces
NASHVILLE, TN. (Top40 Charts/ TBG Entertainment) - Diamond Music Group (DMG) and TBG Entertainment jointly announced today an agreement has been reached to merge their music businesses into a joint venture. Currently, no negotiations have been made for acquisition for either company to purchase the ...
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MySpace To Acquire iLike
New York, NY (Top40 Charts/ MySpace/ iLike) - MySpace today announced an agreement to acquire iLike, a leading social music discovery service. The acquisition brings together two companies who share a common vision revolving around social discovery and distribution of quality content. 'The iLike acquisition ...
| The NPD Group: Digital Music Increases Share of Overall Music Sales Volume in the U.S.
New York, NY (Top40 Charts/ NPD Group) - According to The NPD Group, a leading market research company, while CDs remain the most popular format for paid music purchases, digital music sales are making up an ever-greater share of U.S. music sales. CDs comprised 65 percent of all music sold in the first ...
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FanSnap Named Most Innovative New Search Engine
New York, NY (Top40 Charts/ FanSnap) - FanSnap, the live event ticket search engine for fans, today announced that it been named winner of the "Most Innovative New Search Engine" category of the Search Engine Watch (SEW) Awards 2009. "The FanSnap team is proud to receive this award at the prestigious ...
| Lyrycyst Partners with GimmeSound to 'Free the Music'
New York, NY (Top40 Charts/ Nashville Publicity Group) - Independent rap pioneer Lyrycyst has announced a partnership with the newly launched Gimmesound.com, where a large portion of the artist's music catalog is available for download. The groundbreaking music website has developed a system that allows ...
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Earthworks Entertainment's Hit Parade Radio Signs With Radio Affiliate Services & Syndication
New York, NY (Top40 Charts/ Earthworks Entertainment) - Earthworks Entertainment Inc. (PINKSHEETS: EWKS) announced today that Hit Parade Radio, Inc. (a subsidiary of Earthworks) has entered into an agreement with Scott Gilreath's Radio Affiliate Services & Syndication (RASS) that includes affiliate ...
| Play@LiveNation's National Twitter Scavenger Hunt On August 19, 2009
New York, NY (Top40 Charts/ Live Nation) - This coming Wednesday, Live Nation will tap into the power of millions of twittering music fans across the country as the company launches its first-ever Live Nation Twitter Scavenger Hunt. Beginning at 9:00 a.m. PDT on August 19th, the day-long contest gives ...
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Concert Fans Say 'Give Us One More Week!' - Live Nation Extends End of Summer Blow-Out Sale With $10 All-In Lawn Tickets and $15 All-In Reserved, Absolutely No Service Fees, 24 Hours Only at LiveNation.com
New York, NY (Top40 Charts/ Live Nation) - Live Nation dropped prices lower than ever last week on amphitheater tickets across the country and fans responded by buying tickets in record numbers. So for the second week in a row, Live Nation's No Service Fee Wednesday promotion will continue to offer ...
| iLike Challenge App Now Available on App Store
New York (Top40 Charts/ iLike) - iLike today announced the availability of the iLike Challenge App on the App Store. The iLike Challenge App for iPhone and iPod touch tests how quickly music fans can listen to, and correctly identify, songs from a host of Sony Music superstars including Britney Spears, ...
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Dangerous Music Released Details Of Dweezil Zappa's Road Recording Rig
LOS ANGELES (Top40 Charts/ SpecialOps Media) - In a joint announcement with AMD (NYSE: AMD), Dangerous Music released details of Dweezil Zappa's road recording rig using 48-channels of Dangerous 2-Bus LT analog summing and Dangerous Monitor ST speaker controller, allowing immediate mixing of the 'Zappa ...
| Nokia Associates With 'Music Matters' & RadioAndMusic To Offer India's Largest Music Forum - 'Nokia Music Connects'
New York, NY (Top40 Charts/ Nokia Music Connects) - Nokia announced the launch of Nokia Music Connects, India's largest and first of its kind music forum, in association with Hong Kong based Music Matters and leading Indian media portal Indiatelevision.com's radioandmusic.com. The industry event is ...
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CONCERT.TV, Another Planet Entertainment and Superfly Presents Merge Forces to Promote Outside Lands Music & Arts Festival
New York, NY (Top40 Charts/ CONCERT.TV) - CONCERT.TV, the Video-on-Demand (VOD) network that exclusively showcases live music programming, Another Planet Entertainment, the largest independent promoter in the Bay Area and Superfly Productions, co-creators of Bonnaroo, are teaming up to promote the ...
| Universal Music Group Distribution (UMGD) Expands Relationship With INgrooves
New York, NY (Top40 Charts/ Universal Music Group) - Universal Music Group Distribution (UMGD), the award-winning sales and marketing division of Universal Music Group (UMG), the world's leading music company, has expanded its relationship with INgrooves, a leading provider of digital distribution, ...
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