Love, like a teeming festival campground, can be utter chaos and misery to navigate. Tinder is here to help. The dating app announced Tuesday that it has teamed up with live events conglomerates AEG Worldwide and Live Nation to introduce “Festival Mode,” a new feature with the express purpose of, …
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Lucian Grainge’s Universal Music Group is due to partly change hands this year, as its parent company, the French media company Vivendi, prepares to sell up to 50 percent of its music arm. It will not be a cheap buy: On Monday, Deutsche Bank said in a report that it …
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Pollstar released its year-end report on Monday, and Ed Sheeran‘s “Divide” Tour sits definitively at the top. The singer’s global tour is the most money-making jaunt in any single year of Pollstar’s 30-year history, according to the box office research group. Sheeran, who performed mostly solo onstage but had Elton …
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Jay-Z won a court battle on Wednesday in a lawsuit against his company Roc Nation, on somewhat unusual grounds: The rapper-entrepreneur argued that the lack of African-American arbitrators presiding over the case left him susceptible to unconscious racial bias. The suit has to do with Jay-Z’s Rocawear clothing brand, which …
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Satellite radio giant SiriusXM announced the $3.5 billion all-stock acquisition of Internet radio giant Pandora on Monday, which will bring the two companies together into a massive audio entertainment firm. In a press release, the two companies said that both brands (and their products and services) will continue to operate …
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Chaos and confusion reigned in the music world for a few hours on Friday when several news outlets reported that Sony Music confessed to selling fake Michael Jackson songs. No such admission actually took place. But the bout of misinformation did reignite interest and attention in a conspiracy theory — …
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America’s biggest attempt at music copyright overhaul in decades, also known as the Music Modernization Act, passed unanimously in the Senate Judiciary Committee Thursday, meaning it now only needs to pass a full Senate vote before landing on the president’s desk. The act – a bundle of legislation that chiefly …
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Spotify CEO and co-founder Daniel Ek appeared on CBS This Morning on Tuesday – the day his company’s shares began trading on the New York Stock Exchange– and explained how he persuaded Taylor Swift to bring her music back to Spotify last summer. Ek barely addressed Spotify’s direct listing, instead …
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