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Zingy, the largest mobile entertainment provider in North America, and Billboard magazine announced today that Zingy has been selected to provide mobile entertainment solutions to Billboard.com. Music consumers who visit Billboard.com will be able to buy ringtones of their favorite artists provided by Zingy. “This is a major accomplishment for …

Europe now has more webcasters than the US. Does the RIAA think this is good? For the first time in history, international streaming channels now outnumber channels from the US. BRS Media’s Web-Radio, the leading portal for “Tuning In” radio on the internet, released their latest statistics this week at …

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The new Fortune has an entire section on the Rolling Stones money-making machine. Inside Stones Inc: Jagger is eloquent and informed, but he has a disclaimer: “I don’t really count myself as a very sophisticated businessperson,” he says as he leans back on the couch. “I’m a creative artist. All …

Review of the ongoing Love/Payne show by Stephen Holden in the NY Times: Darlene Love and Freda Payne are prime examples of rhythm-and-blues singers who are considerably more complex than the sound of the vintage hit singles that typecast them vocally on the nostalgia hit parade. And in their exciting …

John Borland writes in CNET: In a speech given at a storage technology conference in San Francisco, Consumer Electronics Association CEO Gary Shapiro blasted the copyright owners’ “scorched earth” legal and policy drives. He also warned policymakers against passing new legislation without serious scrutiny of labels’ and movie studios’ claims. …

I’m very pleased to have a feature in Salon today on the American Idol contestant contract situation, which is not good, for them: Hope, uncertainty, euphoria, disillusionment: This is a familiar career arc for pop stars caught in the manufacturing cogs of the star-making machine, from Ronnie Spector and the …

Oakland GM Billy Beane is first GM to build a team around sabermetrics.

Just about every election year, one or more pols attempt to curry voter favor by beating the straw man of violent/sexual/vulgar/drug-related entertainment content: WHAT ABOUT THE CHILDREN??? There’s Tipper, Ice T, Eminem, Columbine, Cheney, etc etc. Now this: Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.) announced Friday he will hold a field hearing …

The Sex Pistols headlined a punk festival at the old home of the US Festival, the Glen Helen Pavillion in smoggy Devore, about 50 miles east of LA. Shockingly, a few fans got rowdy: In true punk spirit, rowdy music fans pelted the Sex Pistols with beer on Saturday as …