More Music Industry News: Country Touring, SongVote, TuneSat, Believe, Sara Bareilles & More

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• From the Billboard Country Summit – Country touring as strong as ever, but labels are not building new stars. (Billboard.biz)
• SongVote.com is a new collaborative playlist tool that gives users the ability to start theme-based playlists and invite friends to participate. It functions like an open election for crowd-sourced jams. (press release)
• Universal Music Group Publishing has hired TuneSat to do television royalty monitoring.
• Digital music distributor Believe Digital has opened its first UK office since launching in France in 2004. (MusicWeek)
• Jay Frank shares an interesting story about Sara Bareilles, the perils of marketing music and how serendipity can sometimes be a beautiful thing. (FutureHit.DNA)