Sony/ATV/EMI won music publisher of the year and the Jake Owen hit “Barefoot Blue Jean Night” tied Hayslip’s “Honey Bee” as performed by Blake Shelton for ASCAP’s song of the year honor.īMI HANDS OUT COUNTRY HONORS: Broadcast Music, Inc. 29 as ASCAP recognized masters of the three-minute script at its 50th annual Country Music Awards at Nashville’s Opryland Hotel Monday. Amazon MP3 had been selling the set for $13.99 and apparently lowered its price to match the $7.99 price Google Play had set earlier in the day.īRAD PAISLEY, BEN HAYSLIP WIN BIG AT ASCAP COUNTRY AWARDS: Songwriter/artist of the year Brad Paisley and songwriter of the year Ben Hayslip were repeat winners Oct. I don’t think that’s right, there’s music out there that’s not worth a penny….”īUSINESS MATTERS: 7DIGITAL, AMAZON AND GOOGLE NOW SELLING TAYLOR SWIFT’S ‘RED’ AT DEEP DISCOUNTS: Bargains await those who didn’t rush out last week and buy Taylor Swift’s new album, “Red.” Amazon MP3 and Google Play were offering “Red” for $7.99 on Tuesday evening. As recently as last year, Rock was quoted, “I have trouble with the way iTunes says everybody’s music’s worth the same price. KID ROCK JOINS ITUNES: Kid Rock’s music suddenly appeared on iTunes last night, leaving only AC/DC, Garth Brooks, Def Leppard and Tool among the major holdouts on Apple’s online retailer. New York and Los Angeles are especially strong for Pandora – the results gave Pandora founder Tim Westergren plenty to crow about. PANDORA’S WEEKLY CUME NEARLY 27 MILLION: Pandora announced Monday that its September 2012 weekly cume, the radio industry term for cumulative audience, in the 18-to-49 demographic grew 6% to 26.9 million from 25.3 million in June, as measured by Triton Digital. Meanwhile, many other acts, including REO Speedwagon, Kenny Rogers, Sister Sledge, James Taylor and Peter Frampton have filed lawsuits on similar grounds. Productions) against Eminem’s record label Aftermath/Universal in a dispute over how digital income is apportioned. PRODUCTIONS IN LANDMARK EMINEM DIGITAL REVENUES LAWSUIT: Universal Music and FBT Productions informed a California federal court on Monday that a resolution had been reached in a landmark case that pitted Eminem’s production team of Mark and Jeff Bass (F.B.T. “Red” is the first album to sell a million copies in a week since Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way” in May 2011.
That’s more than any album has sold in a single week since 2002, when Eminem’s “The Eminem Show” sold 1.322 million in its first full week.
TAYLOR SWIFT’S ‘RED’ SELLS 1.21 MILLION - BIGGEST SALES WEEK FOR AN ALBUM SINCE 2002: It’s official: Taylor Swift’s “Red” sold a whopping 1.208 million copies last week, according to Nielsen SoundScan.
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