Facebook Launches Content ID Solution Just As YouTube System Comes Under Increasing Fire

Facebook has launched it’s own version of YouTube’s ContentID takedown system. It’s long overdue, but given recent increased criticism of YouTube’s system, the launch couldn’t have come at a worse time. _____________________________________________ By Mike Masnick of Techdirt Last year, after a bunch of YouTube video creators started slamming Facebook for…

Kanye West Abandons Tidal For Apple Music

Kanye West has done it again… He just keeps on surprising us with his inconsistent behaviour. First, he declared that his music would never never NEVER be available on Apple Music, Spotify or any other streaming service apart from Tidal. Then he later went back on his word and made his latest album ‘The Life of […]

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Watch Brad Paisley Introduce John Fogerty to the Grand Ole Opry

In 1970, John Fogerty’s Creedence Clearwater Revival scored the last of five Number Two singles with “Lookin’ Out My Back Door,” in which the band pays homage to country legend Buck Owens and the Bakersfield Sound that influenced the group. In a move that likely surprised the rock & roll…

Changes @ Imagem • Music Dealers • SAG-AFTRA • Best Music Group • More

Karen Macmillan has been appointed as the new Vice President of Imagem USA Creative Services. Macmillan comes to Imagem USA from a position as Senior Director of Advertising & Branding at Nettwerk Music Group. MORE: • Fredda Hurwitz, Global Chief Strategy Officer, Havas Sports & Entertainment as been named to…

How David Bowie, Nile Rodgers Made ‘Let’s Dance’ a Hit

In 1982, David Bowie went on vacation in the South Pacific, a rare respite for the tireless workaholic. “It can get very boring,” he recalled later of taking time off. To cure his boredom, he brought along some of his favorite blues and R&B records from the Fifties and Sixties:…