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• Meebo promote “Family Values”

  Published: July 30, 2007, 7:05 pm

  Tags: Main, Concert Promotion, Evanescence, Family Valus Tour, Featured Band, Instant Messaging, Korn, Live Nation, Meebo, Partnership

  a new partnership with Live Nation and The Firm to promote Family Values, a series of live music events billed as this summer's biggest tour. The partnership includes concert promotion and concert presence. Music fans visiting meebo.com, the Family Values Tour website and featured band websites have a chance to win 2 free

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• Music: Madonna dumps record companies, signs with concert promoter

  Published: October 11, 2007, 1:32 pm

  Tags: Barry Diller, Iac, Live Nation, Madonna, Music, Music, Radiohead, Ticketmaster, Warner

  up with concert-promoter Live Nation. While not as revolutionary as Radiohead's pay-what-you-want plan, or Prince's free-music-with-newspaper deal, Live Nation is a concert production company, not a record label. Madonna's deal will bring album production and distribution, concerts, merchandise and publicity under one company. In an attempt

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• Madonna to ink $120M deal

  Published: October 12, 2007, 6:22 am

  Tags: Pop, News, Other, Live Nation, Madonna, Madonna Label, Warner Music

  Music for concert promoter Live Nation signals more than just a tectonic shift in the music distribution business. The core benefit to Live Nation of the $120-million recording and touring contract with the pop superstar is the opportunity to tap into concert, recording, merchandising and other lucrative revenue streams. But don’t

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• Madonna Strikes Up $120 Million Dollar Deal With Live Nation

  Published: October 16, 2007, 2:53 pm

  Tags: Madonna, Live Nation, Madonna, Photos

  deal she made with Live Nation. She felt that the music business has changed in recent years and liked what Live Nation had to offer: “The paradigm in the music business has shifted and as an artist and a business woman, I have to move with that shift,” Madonna said. “For the first time in my career, the way that my

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• Madonna Just Gets Richer and Richer

  Published: October 16, 2007, 7:01 pm

  Tags: Madonna, Live Nation

  has just inked a deal with Live Nation that will make her almost $120 million dollars richer over 10 years. This gives Live Nation a stronghold on her albums, tours, films, merchandising, and other music projects. There was much speculation about this deal, as she was waiting to see if her current label, Warner Brothers Records, would match

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• Live Nation won't leave me alone [Spam]

  Published: November 15, 2007, 1:41 pm

  Tags: Digital Music, Idolator, Live Nation, Online Advertising, Spam

  buy local nightclub tix from Live Nation, the Beverly Hills-based event promoter for whom Madonna dumped her record label. Now, Live Nation is spamming my private inbox with a fat HTML brochure. The baloney line: "You have received this email because you are a member of the Live Nation mailing list, which you joined free of charge and without

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• Warner Music Group profits fall off

  Published: November 29, 2007, 8:01 am

  Tags: Aapl, Inthenews, Itunes, Live Nation, Livenation, Lyv, Warner Music, Warnermusic, Wmg

  contract with tour promoter Live Nation (NYSE: LYV). For years, WMG had also been mentioned as a possible buyer of London-based EMI Group, but the seven-year rumor ended when Terra Firma bought the music company and took it private. Billboard indicates that WMG is attempting to create new business relationships with the company's roster of

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• Concert Promoter Live Nation: The Concert Business Stinks

  Published: November 30, 2007, 9:38 am

  Tags: Home, Live Nation, Music, Peter Kafka

  at Live Nation (LYV) can't figure out why investors have bailed on the company since it signed a $120 million deal with Madonna. But that's easy enough to figure out: Live Nation keeps telling people the truth, which is that the concert business is a lousy one. From a long profile in the WSJ today:According to a slide displayed during

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• Whose Music in Silver Spring?

  Published: November 30, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Whose, Music, Silver, Spring, Live Nation Inc, Isiah Leggett, Seth Hurwitz, Silver Spring, Hob Entertainment Inc, Washington Dc, Alexandria, Annapolis Maryland, Baltimore, Fillmore, Council Of The District Of Columbia, Loudoun County, Montgomery County Maryland

  It wasn't too many years ago that even street musicians would refuse to perform in downtown Silver Spring. Now things are so hopping that you've got Live Nation, the country's biggest live music outfit, and Seth Hurwitz, owner of the District's 9:30 Club and operator of the Merriweather Post...

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• Madonna Has A New Hit!

  Published: December 4, 2007, 11:25 pm

  Tags: Justin Timberlake, Kanye West, Pharrell Williams, Madonna, Michael Jackson, Material Girl, Ice Cream, Hip Hop, Live Nation, Record Plant, Los Angeles, New York, Music Industry, Recording Studio

  If you're anything like me, you can't wait for the Material Girl to get back in the recording studio. Well, wait no longer, my Dotspotting friends, ....super blog lePaparazzi has the scoop on Madge's new hit with Pharrell Williams:    Madonna's new song with Pharrell Williams is so "hot" it will "make the music speakers bleed". The 'Hung

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• Music's Magic Bullet Misfires: Concerts Down (LYV, WMG)

  Published: December 14, 2007, 8:12 am

  Tags: Home, Live Nation, Music, Peter Kafka

  Concert Promoter Live Nation: The Concert Business Stinks

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• Live Nation (LYV): Competing With Ticketmaster By 2009

  Published: December 20, 2007, 7:56 am

  Tags: Home, Iac, Live Nation, Music, Peter Kafka

  to the U.S.; CTS will handle Live Nation sales in Europe.LYV says it will sell tickets to its own shows, and will also sell tickets for third-party events. That means that IAC's Ticketmaster, which has handled Live Nation up until now, will not only lose its biggest customer, but it will gain a competitor as well. Live Nation, meanwhile, is

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• billy joel tickets - photos

  Published: February 16, 2008, 11:12 am

  Tags: Billy Joel Shea Stadium Tickets, Billy Joel Shea Stadium, Ticketmaster, Live Nation, Billy Joel

  NewsTickets go on sale this morning for BIlly Joel concert at SheaBilly Joel has been booked to perform the final concert at Shea Stadium, July 16. Tickets, priced at $52.50 and $98, go on sale at 9 this morning. ... read moreBox Office Alert: Billy Joel, Widespread Panic, Lisa Lampanelli ...Billy Joel will make "The Last Play at Shea," the last

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• Jay-Z Is The Blueprint

  Published: April 3, 2008, 12:33 pm

  Tags: The Million Dollar Man, Ted Dibiase, Live Nation, Beyonce, Jay Z

  “I’m Not A Businessman, I’m a BUSINESS, MAN!” Once again, Jay-Z is making power moves. Personally, I am a supremely confident individual. Some might even say that I walk around like I got an “S” on my chest. If I were to have a company invest $150 million in me the way that Live Nation Inc. [...]

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• Jay-Z Is Too Rich

  Published: May 2, 2008, 2:45 pm

  Tags: Paid, Markets, Crime, Internet, Music, Culture, Random, 10 Year Contract, Dubai Concert, Hard Candy, Hova, Jay Z, Live Nation, Madge, Madonna, Warner Brothers, Disgustingly, Sick

  a 10-year contract with Live Nation worth $150 mil: a chunk of stock, $5 million per year for “overhead,” $25 million for acquisitions and investments, $10 million an album (for a three-album deal), and $20 [...]

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