HIP HOP NAMED AS THE MOST POPULAR MUSIC GENRE IN THE US
No one ever thought hip hop or R&B would oust rock as the best-selling music genre across the charts, but 2017 saw the end of an era. The day has finally come. No one ever thought hip hop or R&B would oust rock as the best-selling music genre across the charts, but 2017 saw the end of an era. For the first time in the quarter century that Nielsen has been measuring consumption in the United States, in their mid-year report, Nielsen reported that hip hop had finally sold more
Inside the Secretive, Difficult Struggle Between Artists & Labels Over Album Copyrights
Four years after copyright reversion for albums released after 1978 became a possibility, only a handful of artists have regained their masters. What’s the holdup? Todd Rundgren is on a mission rarely accomplished by music stars: he wants the copyrights to his albums back. So recently, when the 69-year-old rocker got a call from Copyright Termination Experts offering to help him free of charge, he accepted. The outfit helped him file notices with the U.S. Copyright office to
Can Atlanta Become the Music Industry's Next Business Hub?
Years after the music industry left the city, ATL is poised to bring the biz back to the South. This summer, as Atlanta rapper 21 Savage was releasing what would become his first top 20 hit on the Hot 100, his manager Kei Henderson got a call that made her ponder -- and not for the first time -- why Atlanta-based artists and their teams have to travel to entertainment hubs such as Los Angeles or New York to conduct business, even though Atlanta is constantly credited with set
