R&R Hall of Fame Honors Ringo Starr and His Annual Peace & Love eventThe Rock & Roll Hall of Fame today presented a special Beatles Fridays event on Ringo Starr’s July 7th birthday. Fans enjoyed The Beatles: Get Back to Let It Be exhibit, which has been extended through the remainder of the year, along with the first-ever recording of Rolling Stone “Music Now” podcast with a live studio audience, which will be available on Monday, July 10th , and took part in the Rock Hall’s video op for Ringo’s #PeaceAndLove Birthday celebration wishing Ringo a Happy Birthday! 

More information about Beatles Fridays can be found at Beatles Fridays | Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

The Beach Boys July 4th Spectacular at the Hollywood Bowl“America’s Band” The Beach Boys played the Hollywood Bowl for three consecutive nights (7/2-4) to celebrate the 4th of July. Originally scheduled for 2020, the show was canceled during the Covid-19 pandemic. The Beach Boys played with the L.A. Philharmonic conducted by Thomas Wilkins. The philharmonic opened the show paying tribute to the armed forces of the United States. As each theme was played, a different division stood up to be recognized for their dedication and sacrifice for our country.  Members of the Army, Coast Guard, Marines, Air Force, and Navy were in attendance. 

2023 marks the 60th anniversary of the first time The Beach Boys played the Hollywood Bowl and also John Stamos’s birth year. It has also been 11 years since The Beach Boys played the Hollywood Bowl on their 50th anniversary tour which brought back all surviving members including Brian Wilson, Al Jardine and David Marks playing under the Beach Boys name in a number of years. The Beach Boys Formed in Hawthorne, CA in 1961 and became America’s biggest group with 36 Top 40 hits and over 100 million album sales worldwide. In the band’s nearly 62 year history, there have been many lineup changes but lead vocalist Mike Love has been the only consistent member to this day from the original group and keyboardist/vocalist Bruce Johnston has been a member since 1965. Johnston was originally brought in to become Brian Wilson’s replacement on the road. The touring group consists of Love’s son Christian on guitar and vocals, keyboardist Tim Bonhomme, Randy Leago (Sax/Flute/Harmonica), bassist Keith Hubacher, and newest member drummer Jon Bolton. 

Joining the Beach Boys were Full House star John Stamos who has toured with the group on and off for nearly 40 years and Sugar Ray frontman Mark McGrath. McGrath recorded “Do It Again” with Stamos for Mike Love’s solo album Unleash the Love released in 2017 which was a combination of re-recorded Beach Boys hits and originals. After an intermission following the orchestra, out came the Beach Boys, McGrath, and Stamos opening with “Do It Again.” In total there were 22 songs performed which were all big Beach Boys hits. McGarth left the stage after “Surfin’ U.S.A.” and would return later. “Surfer Girl” was dedicated to Love’s granddaughter Stella. Love introduced Johnston as “the only member of their camp to win a Grammy” which was for Barry Manilow’s “I Write the Songs,” however Johnston performed a Beach Boys song he wrote and sang lead on which was “Disney Girls (1957). This was followed by back to back tributes to the band’s co-founders Dennis and Carl Wilson. First came “Forever” which Dennis Wilson had sung lead on until his passing in 1983. This song was featured in “Full House” and has been performed by Stamos over the years and this time it was not only a tribute to Dennis but also his Full House co-star Bob Saget, and Stamos played it on a guitar Saget owned. The next song was “God Only Knows” which was sung by Carl Wilson originally and up until his passing in 1998. Christian Love provided lead vocals. 

McGrath returned for “California Girls.” The final songs before the finale were “Help, Me Rhonda”, “Kokomo,” and “Good Vibrations.” The Beach Boys left the stage for the fireworks as the orchestra performed several John Philip Sousa compositions like “The Washington Post March,” and “Stars and Stripes Forever.” The Beach Boys returned to play “Fun, Fun, Fun” and close out this historic night. 

Setlist:

Do It Again with Mark McGrath

Surfin' Safari with Mark McGrath

Catch a Wave

Surfin' U.S.A. with Mark McGrath

Surfer Girl (dedicated to Stella Love on her birthday)

Don't Worry Baby

Little Deuce Coupe

I Get Around

Be True to Your School

Getcha Back

Darlin'

Disney Girls (1957)

Forever with John Stamos

God Only Knows

Sloop John B ([traditional] cover)

Wouldn't It Be Nice

California Girls with Mark McGrath

Barbara Ann (The Regents cover)

Help Me, Rhonda

Kokomo

Good Vibrations

Encore

 Fun, Fun, Fun

50M (make that 70M) reasons why every musician should join ThreadsUPDATE: After attracting 50 million registered users on its first day, 24 hours later, Instagram’s Twitter-like Threads app has surpassed 70 million users. That’s a huge audience looking for content.. Continue reading
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Boomers won’t be saving Music Subscription growth anytime soonAs growth in the number of paid music streaming subscribers slows in the US, some have theorized that Baby Boomers are the key to unlocking more paying customers. Russ Crupnick. Continue reading
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From Universal’s $50m deal in Thailand to TikTok’s new music streaming service… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-UpThe headlines from the past week you can't afford to miss...
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6 of June’s most creative music marketing strategiesMusicians and music marketers know you must get creative to gain traction in the crowded music marketplace. Here is the latest batch of breakthrough strategies compiled by the team at. Continue reading
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SXSW Announces Applications are openSXSW have sent out a reminder that applications are open for the Music Festival, SXSW Pitch, SXSW Innovation Awards, and now is your chance to enter a phenomenal session idea for the 2024 Conference via SXSW PanelPicker®. 

Learn more below, make note of the deadlines, and mark your calendars. And ICYMI: registration for the 2024 event and Film & TV Festival submissions both open on Tuesday, August 1, so get ready, March will be here before you know it!

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After Nelly’s reported $50m deal with HarbourView, company buys ‘select’ recorded music and publishing assets from Wiz KhalifaHarbourView Equity Partners announces its second deal with a US hip-hop star this week
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Live Nation expands into meditation music app space with ‘Mindful Nation’The growth of audio streaming has led to an overlap between the music business and the practice of mindfulness and meditation which presents an opportunity that a growing number of businesses are seizing. A few examples: Streaming service Deezer has launched Zen by Deezer, a wellbeing app that features music and sounds, guided Yoga sessions, … Continued
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SoundCloud Artist Discounts top 25 with addition of Adobe, Discord, Rap Plug & SquarespaceSoundCloud has partnered with Squarespace, Adobe, Discord, and Rap Plug to add to the list of 25 benefits and discounts offered to registered SoundCloud artists. “Being an artist today often. Continue reading
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The MLC Issues Quarterly ReportIn June, The MLC's CEO Kris Ahrend, testified in Nashville before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property and the Internet, at a field hearing entitled “Five Years Later — The Music Modernization Act.” In addition to answering questions about The MLC’s work from the Committee members in attendance, Kris provided an update on The MLC’s operations, including the growth to more than 28,000 rightsholder Members and the distribution of more than $1 billion in royalties to date. The MLC is grateful for the Subcommittee’s time and for the participation of all of the other stakeholders who testified, to address the work of The MLC and all those across the industry working to ensure that rightsholders receive the royalties they are due under the blanket mechanical license. To read Kris’s full written statement, click here.

The MLC’s 2022 Annual Report is now available on our website. The report offers a look into our second full year of operations, key performance metrics from 2022, a financial summary and more.

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On May 23, the Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) issued its initial rate determination for the Phono 3 rate period. This initial determination and the publication of the corresponding regulations that accompany the initial determination represent the next important step in the CRB’s process of finalizing the rates for the Phono 3 rate period.   Once the rate determination is finalized and published in the Federal Register, DSPs will have 6 months to deliver revised data and any royalties they may owe under the final Phono 3 rates — both for the historical unmatched usage previously reported (for 2018, 2019 and 2020) and for usage under the blanket license previously reported (for 2021 and 2022). The MLC has already begun working with DSPs to prepare for their delivery of this revised usage data. For more information, you can read more and check out our timeline here. 

In May, we completed running our final set of historical unmatched data files through our internal matching process. During the Congressional Field Hearing in Nashville, we announced that we had matched nearly 70% of the historical unmatched royalties transferred to us by DSPs. That means that nearly $300 million in historical royalties will be eligible to be distributed to Members provided they have claimed their shares of the works that we’ve matched to those historical royalties. Members can use our Claiming Tool to search for — and claim — any missing shares of their songs that other Members have registered with The MLC, and Members can use our Registration Tools to register any songs that have not yet been registered with us.   Members can also use our Matching Tool to search for uses of their works in the remaining unmatched data we have for those historical royalties. (The one exception is the historical data we received from FanLabel, which contains issues that FanLabel has not been able to rectify.) By providing our Members with full visibility into all of our remaining unmatched sound recording data, we have fully illuminated the "black box" for digital mechanicals for the first time in history and given Members the ability to help us eliminate the black box by proposing matches to their registered works. We’ve already reviewed and approved matches for more than 800,000 previously unmatched groups of recordings that our Members submitted using the Matching Tool. Once we approve a proposed match submitted by a Member, they will be able to receive any previously unmatched historical royalties we received for their song and any unmatched blanket royalties we have received since The MLC launched full operations.

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Queen shows no sign of fading into history as band’s earnings jump 4.3% to $50m in 2022Latest annual report published by Queen Productions Ltd.
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