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BILLBOARD APP Download this week’s issue and get exclusive access to charts, news and more. Go to billboard.com/ipad MOST READ ON BILLBOARD.BIZ 1 Fight breaks out at IMS Engage conference 2 Richie Havens dead 3 Finding the rock stars of tech 4 Daft Punk announces new album 5 PSY’s “Gentleman” sets record: 70 million views in three days NOW ON BILLBOARD.COM 1 2013 Billboard Music Awards finalists 2 Vote for the BBMAs’ Milestone Award, presented by Chevrolet 3 Video Q&As with Fall Out Boy, Flaming Lips 4 Kenny Chesney album review…

Recent rulings on two major copyright cases have put the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) back into the spotlight—each having very different, and potentially significant, consequences for media platforms and rights holders. The first is Universal Music Group v. Escape Media Group, operator of the Grooveshark streaming music service. This decision, issued April 23 by a panel of five New York State Supreme Court judges in favor of UMG, directly contradicts a 2011 ruling in another case, Capitol Records v. MP3Tunes, by a U.S. District Court. In other words, two courts have come to opposite conclusions on a key provision in the DMCA—one that could precipitate a legislative battle royale over what Congress meant when it created its copyright laws and possibly undermine the “safe harbor” provisions that many Internet…

When veteran producer David Kahne (Regina Spektor, Paul McCartney, Kelly Clarkson) was leaving his A&R position at Columbia Records in the mid-’90s, more than 200 artists were on the label’s roster. Not only are there less than half as many acts on Columbia today, many of the bands that would’ve signed with a major label for support have carved out sustainable careers on their own funded primarily by touring and synch licenses, a growing trend that appealed to Kahne. “I’m working with three artists right now who— they’re not wealthy—have homes and do all kinds of good stuff yet none of them are signed,” he says. “They come in with big budgets for their records, like six figures, and look at licensing in a different way. If they can do…

Univision Communications announced the launch of the Uforia music service and upgraded radio app focused on content curation with deep Latin genres. The announcement was made by Univision Radio president Jose Valle and executive VP of content and entertainment Evan Harrison. “Univision Communications is committed to continuing our legacy of bringing the most cutting-edge entertainment to Hispanic America,” Valle said in a statement. “By leveraging the size and scale of the company’s media platforms, we provide an unparalleled promotional platform for established and emerging artists while transforming the digital music experience for our audiences.” On April 26, Univision Radio premiered Marc Anthony’ new salsa single, “Vivir Mi Vida.” The debut was promoted by Univision’s social media properties as well as local and national digital extensions. Univision Radio has also hosted…

RETAIL TRACK ED CHRISTMAN .biz Calvin Harris hasseta U.K. chart record by clocking eight hits from one album. The Scottish DJ/producer’s “I Need Your Love” (featuring Elite Goulding) rose 11-7 on the Official U.K. Singles chart (April 21) and became the eighth trackfrom 18 Months to crack the top 10. One retailer chose Record Store Day to go out of business, complaining labels don’t support retail At first, I thought the owner of Sound Fix in Brooklyn was misguided for closing shop the day after Record Store Day. After all, Sound Fix’s James Bradley had chosen for his store’s final stand not just a day that celebrates record retailers, but a day that was, among other reasons, created to combat the mainstream media perception that record stores are doomed and…

Like so many other aspiring artists, Emii left her small hometown for New York as soon as she could, hoping to make her mark. Unlike most others, though, she’s gained plenty of attention— and she’s hungry for more. Although she has yet to release a full-length album, the Youngstown, Ohio, native has already achieved a string of You-Tube and club hits. With big plans for music and films ahead, she’s eyeing 2013 as her breakout year. On March 12, Emii released her latest effort, a two-song EP featuring the uplifting “Time to Move On” and the provocative, club-ready “Freakier Freak,” through her website (emii.net) and iTunes. The former, featuring lyrics by Grammy Award-winning songwriter Crystal Nicole, is Emii’s latest single that’s already making headway in the United Kingdom. It entered…

Atlanta Shaky Knees Music Festival, May 4-5 BROWSE Though it doesn’t always get the credit, Atlanta is genuinely one of America’s great music towns. Where hip-hop and R&B are concerned, it takes a back seat to none. Kanye West, OutKast, Toni Braxton, Usher, T.I., Lil Jon, Ludacris, Akon, Cee Lo Green and TLC all have roots in the Georgia capital. LaFace Records and Jermaine Dupri’s So So Def were both founded here as well. And, of course, Canadian superstar Justin Bieber has ties here. Sometimes overlooked is its rock’n’roll scene, which has nurtured the likes of Zac Brown Band, the Black Crowes, Mastodon, Collective Soul and John Mayer. The new Shaky Knees Music Festival (shakykneesfestival.com) debuts May 4-5, featuring indie luminaries like Band of Horses and Drive-By Truckers, as well…

The Birth Of A Colossus When executives from Warner Music and Sony Music reached out to Steve Jobs in January 2002 in hopes of recruiting Apple into a consortium to develop a standard for interoperable music devices, they approached the meeting in Cupertino, Calif., with much apprehension for the future of the music business. A few minutes into the pitch, Jobs interrupted and said: “You guys have your heads up your asses.” “Everyone else in the room was silent,” recalls Warner executive VP Paul Vidich, who attended the meeting after flying in from New York that morning. “I replied in a hoarse voice, ’You’re right, Steve. That’s why we’re here. We need your help.’ The intent of the meeting was to recruit Apple to join the consortium, which they did.…

The National’s frontman Matt Berninger will be taking a nap after this interview. “I was up at 6 o’clock this morning with my daughter,” he says, “so I’m going to need to crash.” This is typical domestic behavior for the singer of a band whose critically acclaimed, baritone-based indie group has earned a legion of fans as well as inspired good-natured ribbing about its subdued qualities—the announcement of its sixth full-length, Trouble Will Find Me, inspired a Twitter meme of suburban alternate titles, including “Birdwatching With Franzen” and “Hummus.” With the National’s new set due May 21, casually announced on Twitter in February (“Oh and also, thought you might like to know ...”), it’s clear that Berninger and his bandmates—two pairs of brothers, Aaron and Bryce Dessner and Bryan and…

Empire of the Sun “Alive” (3:24) PRODUCERS: Luke Steele, Nick Littlemore, Peter Mayes, Donnie Sloane WRITERS: various PUBLISHERS: various Astralwerks DANCE ‘Alive’ Is Synth-fully Good Australian synth-pop duo Empire of the Sun isn’t afraid of corniness so long as it results in dancing. On its debut album, 2008’s Walking on a Dream, the group teetered dangerously close to parody due to its eccentric visuals and Luke Steele’s nasal vocal delivery, but the songs were so deliciously enjoyable— blending new-millennium electronica and new romantic synth textures—that it was difficult to mind. Given the five-year void since the band’s last studio album, a stylistic shift would seem logical. Instead, “Alive” is simply more campy brilliance: childlike chanting, chirpy vocal loops, four-on-thefloor pulses and, of course, cushioned blasts of synthesizer. “Loving every minute…

On April 18, Italian disco/synth-pop pioneer Giorgio Moroder posted a picture of two sound waves on his Facebook page, comparing the moderate volume and beats of his 1977 heyday with the louder sound and denser rhythms of today’s EDM. “It’s not funny anymore—we have to do something!” he wrote. As it turns out, Moroder is doing something to bridge the gap between the genre he helped shape and its current, noisier form—and nearly three decades after his last charting single, Limahl’s “Never Ending Story,” went to No. 17 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1984. In May, Moroder appears on Daft Punk’s highly anticipated Random Access Memories, narrating the history of disco and his role in the movement in the appropriately titled “Giorgio by Moroder.” The musical history lesson serves…

1 WILL.I.AM FEATURING MILEY CYRUS Sales: 99% Airplay: 1% Streams: 0% The last preview single from Will.i.am’s just-released #willpower arrives on the Hot 100 courtesy of 84,000 in download sales—and little else. It’s not a promoted radio track, so its lack of airplay isn’t surprising. The album’s current radio single, “#thatpower” featuring Justin Bieber, rises 48-40 on Hot 100 Airplay. 2 ROBIN THICKE FEATURING T.I. & PHARRELL Sales: 78% Airplay: 4% Streams: 18% While the March release of the song’s video garnered immediate attention due to its plentiful amount of nudity, the song was slow to debut on the Hot 100. However, both its airplay and sales continue to make weekly gains. 3 MAROON 5 Sales: 24% Airplay: 65% Streams: 11% Considering that the song peaked in download sales in…

An improving global music market is giving investors reason to look at music companies. While major deals will get done in any climate, the recorded-music market’s recovery and the cooling of the music publishing market are making independent music companies attractive, too. ¶ Nettwerk Music Group has just raised $10.3 million in equity growth financing from private equity firm HBC Investments, previous investor Beedie Capital and Nettwerk’s four founding partners, Terry McBride, Ric Arboit, Dan Fraser and Mark Jowett. Nettwerk encompasses a record label, artist and producer management firms and music publishing company. ¶ “The bottom line is the music business is growing,” Nettwerk CEO McBride says. That growth hasn’t yet reached the world’s largest markets, however. In 2012, U.S. recorded-music revenue was down 0.5% while the U.K. market dropped…

.biz Nick Raphael, president of Universal imprint London Records, has been named president of Capitol Records U.K., reporting to Universal Music U.K. chairman/CEO David Joseph. London senior VP of A&R Jo Charrington and head of marketing Tom Paul will join Raphael in the new setup. Further appointments will be made in the coming weeks. Understanding the minds of teenagers has been a vexing occupation for adults since the dawn of humanity. Nielsen is among the latest to peer into the fog of adolescence to find clues about what tools teens use to find digital entertainment and how those choices will shape their spending for decades to come. What did Nielsen find? First, they prefer smartphones and tablets. U.S. households with teens are acquiring such devices at a faster rate than…

David Angelo founded boutique ad agency David & Goliath with an indie-label philosophy: “Take on big marketing challenges not by swinging blindly into the fray, but by being smart, nimble, focused and brave.” The 12-year-old company, based in El Segundo, Calif, has made music a focal part of brands’ strategy-most notably Kia Motors, D&G’s founding client whose dancing hamsters have helped make hits out of LMFAO’s “Party Rock Anthem” and Ivan Gough’s “In My Mind (Axwell Remix)” as well as help Black Sheep’s ’90s hip-hop hit “The Choice Is Yours (Revisited)” experience a resurgence after appearing in a 2010 spot. 7.15 AM like to start my day with a breakfast of steel-cut oatmeal and an apple. 7.45 AM l drafted an outline for my meeting with the Los Angeles Clippers’Blake…

The inaugural BottleRock Festival, to be held May 9-12 in California’s Napa Valley, has an impressive lineup for a first-time event, including the Black Keys, Kings of Leon, Zac Brown Band and Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros. Plus, a partnership with eBay Celebrity and eBay Giving Works is helping bring memorabilia and exclusive experiences with those acts to attendees and music fans across the globe. A two-part online auction launched April 15 and continues through May 8, with 100% of the proceeds going to 20 different community nonprofits that help raise autism awareness. EBay has been increasing its music presence in recent years, with the Grammy Awards and Bonnaroo festival among its other auction partners, and was looking for a way to showcase the eBay Mobile platform through another…

BUSINESS MATTERS GLENN PEOPLES Twitter’s #music service is a smart tactical move and a decent music discovery tool. Available in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand, #music is likely to become a staple of music industry bragging rights. But widespread adoption could be difficult. Twitter’s acquisition of We Are Hunted, which resulted in the development of #music, makes strategic sense. Because #music’s charts are created from Twitter activity, the service reinforces the idea that artists should make Twitter a primary social media tool. The more people are talking about and sharing an artist’s music, the higher that artist will land on its charts. Charts equal bragging rights. Expect to see artists and labels gloating about a position on #music. In fact, this is already…

Beards & Bow Ties Def Jam founders Rick Rubin and Russell Simmons and colleague Lyor Cohen beamed at the 28th annual Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction, where Public Enemy joined the hallowed ranks. Oprah inaugurated Quincy Jones, and Dave Grohl jammed with Rush, which finally got its due. 1 Def Jam co-founders Rick Rubin (left) and Russell Simmons with their former Def Jam/Rush Entertainment cohort Lyor Cohen at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Ceremony at the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles on April 18. The three executives got down during former Def Jam act Public Enemy’s performance of classics like “Bring the Noise” and “Fight the Power.” 2 White-party ready Dave Grohl (right) beams backstage following a jam session with Rush’s Geddy Lee and his induction…

Name: Jim Eno Day job: Spoon drummer/co-founder. Eno, Britt Daniel (who’s been busy with Divine Fits), Eric Harvey and Rob Pope will reconvene this fall to make the band’s eighth album. April shower: On top of the Dupree album, other Eno-produced records released this month include Telekinesis (Dormarion, Merge),!!! (Thriller,Warp) and Har Mar Superstar (Bye Bye 17, Cult). Coming attractions: Producing Mexican singer Ximena Sari nana, and producing and playing drums on two tracks with Norwegian singer/songwriter Sondre Lerche, which Public Hi-Fi will release on 12-inch vinyl. What started as an off-the-cuff money-saving operation for Spoon drummer Jim Eno has turned into an enduring labor of love. Eno’s Public Hi-Fi studio has existed in a rough state since 1998, when he first vaulted the ceilings of his home’s two-car garage—partly…

So what can Apple do for an encore in the music business? After reinventing and restructuring the music biz with the iTunes Music Store during the last decade, iTunes remains far and away the leader—but now there are serious questions as to whether Apple is still a leader in innovation as the download growth tails off and more consumers mull committing to convenient paid subscription services. The doubts have mounted especially after Apple ceded smartphone momentum to Samsung and saw its profit margin and share price fall. CEO Tim Cook has debuted a string of product updates that were incubated before the 2011 death of Steve Jobs. A few very public missteps—such as Apple’s release of a half-baked maps app—have added to the murmurs that the company has lost its…

In December 2001, Big Country frontman Stuart Adamson committed suicide, a tragedy that seemingly marked the end of the Scottish rock band’s prolific career. The members of the group, best known for “In a Big Country” off 1983’s The Crossing, went back to their lives, taking up day jobs and studio work with the unspoken assumption that Big Country was finished. After a short reunion in 2007 to celebrate its 25th anniversary, the band, spurred by online fan comments, decided to re-form in 2010, primarily to tour. At the helm was Mike Peters, singer for the Alarm. “It’s not like we just asked any singer to come along and do this,” guitarist Bruce Watson says over Skype from the band’s current U.K. tour. “Mike was the only person that I…

Boston experienced tragedy on April 15, when two bomb explosions during the 117th Boston Marathon killed three and injured approximately 180 (with a police officer killed by one of the suspects on April 18). As the city mourns, along with so many beyond the region, music seems to be providing a measure of comfort. 597% Neil Diamond visited Boston’s Fenway Park on April 20 to sing his 1969 No. 4 Billboard Hot 100 hit “Sweet Caroline (Good Times Never Seemed So Good)” during the Red Sox’s first home game following the bombings. (Normally, the original version is played during each home game.) The rousing appearance spurs the song’s No. 33 debut on Pop Digital Songs with 19,000 sold, a 597% increase, according to Nielsen SoundScan. 155% 1K% Consumers had Boston…

One rock band replaces another atop the Billboard 200 as Fall Out Boy’Save Rock and Roll debuts at No. 1, bumping last week’s champ, Paramore’Paramore, down to No. 12. Fall Out Boy bows with 154,000 sold, according to Nielsen SoundScan, the quartet’s third-biggest sales week. Only the No. 1 arrival of Infinity on High in 2007 (260,000) and a busy Christmas frame for From Under the Cork Tree in 2005 (157,000) were larger. Fall Out Boy had been in a race for No. 1 with Kid Cudi, whose new Indicud debuts at No. 2 with 136,000. Initially, industry sources forecast both albums—released April 16—to sell around 150,000. However, Kid Cudi fell behind a bit once the weekend hit, and Fall Out Boy pulled ahead by the end of the tracking…

FUSE TEAMS WITH TWITTER, TRIDENT Fuse, Twitter and Tridentgum have teamed for a new nightly TV program based on music trends. The program “Trending 10,” will comb the influential microblogging site for the day’s 10 most talked-about music stories. Fuse is using a proprietary algorithm called “Heat Tracker” to spot the trends, with Trident serving as principle sponsor. Daily and weekly segments will feature Trident branding. LAURYN HILL’S PENDING SENTENCE Hill’s sentencing for her 2012 tax evasion charge has been delayed. U.S. federal judge Madeline Cox Arleo postponed the sentencing, giving the elusive singer/songwriter/producer more time to pay restitution on an estimated $1 million in back taxes. Hill had promised to pay $554,000 by the sentencing date, but has so far paid just $50,000. The former Fugees singer is said…

FTR In the April 27 issue, an item in the Road Work column misstated the booking agency responsible for Li Wayne’s upcoming Americas Most Wanted run. The tour will be produced by Live Nation/Haymon Ventures and overseen bySEFG’s Shawn Gee and Blueprint Groups Cortez Bryant and Gee Roberson. Don Omar, an artist who in the past few years has been defined by his hit singles, and Jenni Rivera, an artist whose chart success was driven by album sales, were the top winners at the 2013 Billboard Latin Music Awards, presented by State Farm. Don Omar, who performed his current hit, “Zumba,” had garnered 18 finalist nods—tying a record set by Tito “ El Bambino” in 2010—and took home 10 of those awards. They included songs artist of the year; male…

WHAT: Lukasz “Dr. Luke” Gottwald’s Prescription Songs, based in Los Angeles, and Scott Borchetta’s Big Machine Music in Nashville struck a joint-venture publishing deal in mid-April to connect songwriters from both teams with each other. Their frst signing is RaeLynn, a country singer working on her debut for Big Machine, who will be working with writers from the two teams. These are two heavyweights aligning here. Prescription Songs was just named independent publisher of the year at ASCAP’s Pop Awards, and last year, Dr. Luke was Billboard’s No. 1 Hot 100 songwriter and producer of the year. Big Machine Label Group, home to Taylor Swift, Republic Nashville and Valory Music, expanded 10 months ago with the launch of a music publishing operation. Dr. Luke, whose songwriting success began with “Since…

STRATEGY YINKA AGEGOKE Vevo’s Stop And Go The surprise exit of Vevo sales chief David Kohl, who had been there since 2009, is a big cause for concern among advertisers and music industry partners who worry about disruption to a business whose primary revenue source is advertising. In the interim, Vevo CEO Rio Caraeff has taken on all key sales decisions and has appointed recruitment firm Spencer Stuart to find a chief revenue officer for the video company. Vevo’s advertising is fairly stable with average CPM (cost per thousand) rates of $25-$35, which is in line with forecasts by Credit Suisse for 2013 that expect premium online ads to cost $32.60. It generated nearly $300 million in revenue in 2012, according to a Wall Street Journal report. But the crux…

President, SoundExchange What did you wake up thinking about this morning? Most days when I wake up I’m thinking about work and how to move the business forward. This morning we had our weekly staff management meeting. For today’s meeting, I was concentrating on communication and operational issues, and a couple of legal ones. One thing that we talked about is the upcoming [first-quarter royalty] distribution of $117.5 million, the largest first-quarter payment to date. We are doing things to streamline payments and changing some of the ways we report data to the artists and labels. Describe a lesson learned from a failure. You can’t give up on what is important both in life and business, but you need to chose your battles. You have to evaluate which issues you…

As president of the Billions Corporation, one of the leading booking agencies in the United States, David T. Viecelli truly understands the importance of streamlined travel, averaging 100-125 days on the road per year while helping shape the touring careers of acts like Arcade Fire, Liars and St. Vincent. Citing his favorite destinations as Tokyo, Paris and San Francisco, the Chicago-based Viecelli has racked up quite the frequent-flier mileage, which will only multiply given that he and his wife recently purchased an old stone house in a hamlet in France. “The best part of traveling is the fresh frame of reference the disruption provides,” Viecelli says. “I do a lot of my best creative and longer-term thinking on airplanes.” KEY APP The one I find indispensable now is United’s app.…

Rod Stewart does not disappoint—even his driveway befits a rock star. Actually, it’s a gated road, and it sprawls uphill toward a chateau-like Beverly Hills manse, its considerable expanse lined with classical statuary, burbling fountains, artfully manicured foliage and impossibly blooming flowers. It’s the landscape-architecture equivalent of Stewart’s trademark spiky ’do—carefully maintained, not one leaf out of place. Upon reaching Celtic House—a compound of lavish structures named in honor of Glasgow’s Celtic Football Club, one of Stewart’s many loves—the dazzle continues: ornate crown mouldings, Corinthian columns and, everywhere one looks, massive Pre-Raphaelite paintings of cherubim. In his riotous 2012 memoir “Rod: The Autobiography”—which hit No. 4 on the New York Times’ Best Sellers list—Stewart notes that when he has trouble sleeping, he counts his paintings: “Normally, by the time I…

Be it the blackjack table or the dinner table, deals are being made and hands are being played all across Las Vegas. No more is it an old man’s game in that other Entertainment Capital of the World, and long gone are the days when the most diversity in town is at the hotel buffet. “You can go old school, you can go indie, you can see those that have passed via an impersonator—really the options are endless on any given night,” Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas chief marketing officer Lisa Marchese says about the music offerings in town. “And while the quality varies dramatically, there is no shortage of options.” Book a trip for the upcoming Billboard Music Awards on May 19 (see story, page 32) or check in on…

Just how intimate can this sound? That’s the question Patty Griffin set forth to answer when recording her seventh solo album, American Kid, out May 7 on New West Records. The cult singer/songwriter already connects with a legion of fans through songs detailing all manner of heartbreak and joy. But for her first album of new solo material since 2007’s Children Running Through It (2010’s Grammy Award-winning Downtown Church was a live recording), she says, “I wanted it to sound like I was in the room with you.” To that end, she and producer Craig Ross hired her stage sound engineer Roy Taylor to rig up “a bunch of old microphones to get that local sound,” while hunkered down at the “funky, lived-in” Zebra Ranch Studio located an hour outside…

Casey Donahew’s fierce independent streak is key to the success of the Casey Donahew Band’s new album, Standoff, released April 16 on Almost Country Records, the Fort Worth-based label owned and operated by Donahew and his wife, Melinda. Standoff bows at No. 7 on Billboard’s Top Country Albums chart and No. 32 on the Billboard 200. “We were told by a friend when we made our first demo in 2001: ’Do everything you can as long as you can.’ We’ve always tried to live by that philosophy,” says Casey Donahew, who has released five previous indie albums and developed a strong following in his native Texas. “We’ve been approached with opportunities to sign with a label, but never really felt like it was the right fit.” In music and business,…

LEGEND Bullets indicate titles with greatest weekly gains. Album Charts ● Recording Industry Assn. of America (RIAA) certification for physical shipments & digital downloads of 500,000 albums (Gold). △ RIAA certification for physical shipments & digital downloads of 1 million units (Platinum). Numeral noted with Platinum symbol indicates album’s multiplatinum level. ♦ RIAA certification for physical shipments & digital downloads of 10 million units (Diamond). Numeral noted with Diamond symbol indicates album’s multiplatinum level. ○ Latin albums certification for physical shipments & digital downloads of 50,000 units (Oro). △ Latin albums certification for physical shipments & digital downloads of 100,000 units (Platino). Numeral noted with Platinum symbol indicates album’s multi-platinum level. Digital Songs Charts ● RIAA certification for 500,000 paid downloads (Gold). △ RIAA certification for 1 million paid downloads…