Irving and Jeff Azoff, Brandon Creed Merge Powerful Music Management Companies

Veteran managers Irving Azoff, his son Jeffrey Azoff and Brandon Creed will merge their management companies to operate as Full Stop Management with a headquarters in Los Angeles.

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Universal Music Wins Bidding War To Manage Prince Catalog Just Ahead Of Streaming Launch

With multiple sources reporting that Prince's extensive catalog will become available on most streaming music services this weekend, Universal Music Group has won the much sought after right to manage. Continue reading

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Purple Spotify Billboards Point To Prince Streaming Release

Purple Spotify billboards have been spotted in the New York subways.  While they include no specific message, they likely signal the anticipated release of the Prince catalog to steaming services.. Continue reading

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RESOLVED: Day Long DDOS Attack That Brought Down Spotify, SoundCloud, Others Ends, Homeland Security Investigating

UPDATE 2: Spotify, SoundCloud, Twitter and other major sites were down or loading slowly all day on Friday thanks to a massive Distributed Denial Of Services (DD0S) attack. By Friday evening the. Continue reading

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Skip, Replay, Repeat, Hip Hop + Donald Trump, and #SaveNelly: Liv Buli’s Week in Music and More

Another Friday, another Liv Buli Weekend Reading List. Buli, the data journalist for Pandora's Next Big Sound, often sees what matters before the rest of us do and shares it. Continue reading

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Rapper’s Fans Launch Streaming Campaign To #SaveNelly

Rapper Nelly's fans are turning to streaming in order to help him with his $2.4 million tax lien. If the campaign reaches critical mass, it will be interesting to see. Continue reading

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How Department Of Justice Verdict Negatively Impacts Songwriters

Here an entertainment lawyer lends his perspective on a recent decision handed down by the Department of Justice, a decision which ignored the advice of copyright experts and served to. Continue reading

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Scam Extortionists Threaten To Release Hacked Patreon User Data

Early last month fan patronage site Patreon was hacked.  No sensitive user data accessed, according to the startup, which nonetheless recommended a change of passwords. But now, some Patreon users. Continue reading

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Why Music Labels and Publishers Chronically Miss Out On Licensing Opportunities

By music licensing expert Andy Lykens. The C-levels at a music publisher I used to work at would drop by my cube once every few days. All nice people, they. Continue reading

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