Finally, some good news from the music business; kind of. Ray Waddell at Billboard Biz writes….
For the overall touring industry, grosses reported to Billboard Boxscore totaled slightly less than $4 billion worldwide, the most ever for a year and up almost 13% over last year.
That’s the good news right there. The other side of the [...]

Nas, or if you prefer his new name, Nasterisk, and Island/Def Jam are pulling off the cheesy publicity stunt of pretending to take the high ground by not calling Nasterisk’s new record “Nigger” as originally intended. The media is chasing the story like a blind puppy in a meat market and throwing the “N Word” [...]

O.K., I know you guys are going to think I must be slipping something into my coffee as this is the second time in a week that I’m writing about American Idol. It’s not the case, I subscribed to Billboard Biz a while ago and last night the omniscient Google Reader recommended that I get [...]