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The Jackson 5 make their first national television appearance.
By Jonathan P. Hicks
The Jackson 5 performed their hit single "I Want You Back" during their first appearance on national television on Hollywood Palace on Oct. 14, 1969.
It went to the No. 1 spot on the soul singles chart for four weeks and the top position on the Billboard
Hot 100 singles chart for the week ending Jan. 31, 1970. The song was
ranked 121st on Rolling Stone’s list of the 500 greatest songs of all
time.
The group performed “I Want You Back” in all of their world tours
either as a full song or as a part of the Jackson 5 medley in concerts.
After leaving the Jackson 5, Michael Jackson performed the song as part of a medley of Jackson 5 hit songs.
“I Want You Back” sold 6 million copies internationally. In 1999, the song was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.
It might as well be Taylor Swift weekend in Music City.
The pop star opened her $4 million Taylor Swift Education Center at
the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum on Saturday morning, and will
accept her record sixth songwriter-artist of the year award from
Nashville Songwriters Association International on Sunday.
Swift cut the ribbon on the new education center she donated to the
museum as part of its expansion campaign and showed reporters and area
high school students the new classroom and exhibit space before the
museum opened.
"I'm really excited about this music education center and the fact
that right now they have three different classes going on today," Swift
said in an interview after the ceremony. "It's really exciting that we
can be here on a day when they're not only unveiling it, but they're
starting to actively use it today."
The center will have classroom space, a hands-on instrument room and
ongoing education opportunities. Museum officials say the new center
will increase educational opportunities sevenfold going forward. And who knows? Maybe users will find the 23-year-old Swift hanging around some day.
"We've been talking about different programs I can be involved in,"
Swift said. "I hate to call it a lecture because that sounds like I'm
yelling at people, but we could do a Q&A talking to students here
and a songwriters discussion would be really fun to have at some point."
The bar owner is faced with charges of
obscenity and operating an entertainment venue without a permit
following the pop star's racy post about a sex show.
BANGKOK — Thai authorities have arrested a bar owner in connection with a lewd sex show mentioned in racy tweets by pop star Rihanna
during her recent trip to Thailand, officials said Monday, two weeks
after an Instagram photo of Rihanna with a protected primate led to the
arrest of two other men.
Officials on the island of Phuket, 680 kilometers (420 miles) south
of Bangkok, said Monday the bar owner faced charges of obscenity and
operating an entertainment venue without a permit.
Local district chief Weera Kerdsirimongkon said the man was arrested Saturday as part of a crackdown on shows featuring naked dancers.
"Authorities found out about this bar the morning after Rihanna
tweeted about it, but we were not able to catch them violating the law
until Saturday night," Weera said. "We had been waiting for them and
finally caught them red-handed."
Weera said the bar owner could face up to one month's imprisonment and a fine of up to 60,000 baht ($1,900).
This isn't the first arrest triggered by Rihanna's postings on social
media. A photo of her with a slow loris, a squirrel-like animal with
big eyes, on Instagram led local police to arrest a 20-year-old man and a
16-year-old boy, who could face charges of possession of protected
animals. The charge carries a penalty of up to four years in prison and a
40,000 baht ($1,300) fine.
Every
time you read about the "platform wars" it's a discussion about how the
tech giants of the last two to three decades are battling to decide the
future of consumer technology. So the usual names: Apple vs. Amazon vs.
Microsoft vs. Google fighting to create the dominant operating system
platforms and pre-eminent hardware.
Music is almost always a pawn in these wars -- but it is also always
present, even if it comes across as a disposable consumer enticement
that provides stickiness, enhanced experience and overall sexiness. This is why it will be intriguing to watch two fledgling companies
started by veterans of the music business, SFX chairman Bob Sillerman
and former Live Nation chairman Irving Azoff.
Sillerman is pushing ahead with his EDM startup, which has rolled up
some 15 EDM festival businesses in the last year. In the coming weeks
he'll take the company on a roadshow to institutional investors to
discuss the potential of SFX Entertainment and the wider youth-led EDM
market ahead of an initial public offering that could value the company
at up to $1 billion by some estimates.
Azoff has teamed with his good friend and artist client Jim Dolan,
chairman of the Madison Square Garden (MSG) Co., to create a new joint
venture called Azoff MSG Entertainment (AMSGE). It will operate in
artist management, publishing, live entertainment branding and digital
services, among others.
But here's what is most notable about these two veterans' latest
moves. They're showing investors a different way to think about music
business models in a digital world. They're indirectly making the
argument that music, just like technology, should be a consumer-facing
platform around which one builds a business rather than battling to own
rights as a lower-margin music "supplier" like a label or publisher.
SFX is most explicit with its ambitions. It is pitching brands the
opportunity to get in front of millions of elusive, young,
disposable-income-rich and attention-poor consumers in a captive setting
through its roster of major EDM events. Billboard has learned SFX is
asking for as much as $50 million from marketers for one of several
global branding opportunities. Whether or not SFX gets what it's asking
for, what's important is that a music startup has shifted its value
proposition from the usual fraught discussions around rights and music
use to the music itself as a platform for the right partner.
Azoff is less explicit about his plans just a couple of weeks after
announcing his joint venture. Cynical observers might wonder how a
business that has yet to create anything is worth the $300 million
valuation implied from the announcement. While the Dolan family's
control of the MSG board might mean the due diligence might've been less
intense, that doesn't mean this isn't a smart bet. Azoff's vision is to
use music as a platform to leverage artist relationships more
efficiently under one roof blending traditional artist management with
live branding and digital media. You can expect AMSGE's combined clout
to help it in reaching out to brand partners offering live artist
sponsorship packages as just one example.
Interestingly, Sillerman and Azoff are both just a couple of degrees
removed from today's Live Nation, which has been developing a
music-as-a-platform concept for several years now. Its brand sponsorship
business generated impressive operating profit margins of 70% on
revenue of $248 million in 2012 compared with razor-thin margins in the
concert and ticketing business. But a much smaller, nimbler startup like
SFX or AMSGE, which doesn't have any of the legacy issues of a $4.5
billion company like Live Nation, could have a significant impact in
rewriting the rules of the game. It would appear old dogs are teaching
us all new tricks.
MSG, Azoff Unveil New Entertainment Venture
ByHannah Karp
Madison Square Garden Co.
MSG +0.31%
said it is paying $125 million to create a new joint venture with music mogul
Irving Azoff
that will manage artists, own music-publishing rights and dabble in marketing and television production.
Under
the terms of the deal, a subsidiary of MSG will pay Mr. Azoff $125
million for a 50% stake in the new firm, Azoff MSG Entertainment LLC,
and will also provide $50 million of revolving credit.
Mr. Azoff,
who has long managed acts including the Eagles, Van Halen, Christina
Aguilera and Steely Dan and will continue to do so, said that the new
company would function "almost like a venture capital fund," and create
new opportunities for his business that he might not be able to see on
his own.
"You've got to reach a bit of a critical mass to be
taken seriously," said Mr. Azoff, who stepped down as chairman of Live
Nation Entertainment Inc. in December, taking his superstar artist
roster with him. The transaction announced Wednesday represented only
the most recent of several occasions Mr. Azoff has sold a stake in his
management company to a deep-pocketed backer, starting with the MCA
entertainment conglomerate in the 1980s. MSG previously bought and sold a
minority stake in Mr. Azoff's management business.
For MSG,
which is spending about $100 million to renovate the historic Forum
arena in Inglewood, Calif., the partnership will help it make the most
of its roster of venues, which includes New York City's Radio City Music
Hall and the Beacon Theatre, as well as its namesake arena.
Mr.
Azoff said that the Forum "will get every one of my acts that can sell
that many seats," though he added that this would be the case even if
MSG didn't own the venue. Mr. Azoff described himself earlier this
summer as the Forum's "head cheerleader."
MSG Chief Executive
James Dolan,
who plays guitar in a blues band managed by Mr. Azoff—J.D. and
the Straight Shot—said he had been looking for a way to move from the
bricks-and-mortar venue business into the entertainment-content
business, and that the new venture could lead to anything from music
festivals to television shows.
The company will also offer
artists a new alternative to the two biggest publishing-rights
societies: the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers,
known as Ascap, and Broadcast Music Inc., known as BMI—which collect
royalties for songwriters.
"We believe rights holders need to be
represented a different way," said Mr. Azoff, noting that both Ascap and
BMI are decades old.
The company's TV and live-event unit will
be run by
Lawrence Randall,
the former head of programming and entertainment for the National
Football League. In the works is an interactive, live music-discovery
TV show that allows viewers to scout street talent and fund their
favored contestants on the show.
The video streamer's stock surges after
reports that it's seeking U.S. partnerships similar to arrangements in
the U.K. and Sweden.
Shares of Netflix surged 8 percent on Monday after reports
surfaced that cable operators were considering embedding the
video-streamer's service into set-top boxes.
The Wall Street Journal, citing people familiar with discussions, said Netflix is talking to Comcast and Suddenlink Communications, and Bloomberg later reported talks are underway with Charter Communications and Cox Communications, as well.
Netflix stock on Tuesday rose $23.51 a share to $324.36 on volume that was more than twice the average. RELATED: Netflix in Talks to Offer Online Video Service via Comcast, Other US Pay TV Firms Presumably, if a deal were to get done in the U.S. it would be
similar to an arrangement Neflix recently struck with Virgin Media in
the U.K. and Com Hem in Sweden. With those two -- at least initially --
only their subscribers who use TiVo set-top boxes will be able to access
a Netflix app.
Netflix's goal, though, is more likely that the app be available on
cable boxes in general, therefore making the on-demand streamer more of a
partner to multi-systems operators and less a competitor.
"We would love to reduce the friction to the end consumer and to be available via the existing device in the home," Netflix CFO David Wells said this year at an investor conference.
Maxine
Powell, who was responsible for developing the charm, grace and style
of Motown Records' artists during the Detroit label's 1960s heyday, has
died. She was 98.
Motown Museum CEO Allen Rawls says Powell died Monday at a hospital in Southfield, Mich.
She didn't sing or write songs, but those associated with Motown say
Powell was as essential to the label's operations as any performer or
producer.
Powell directed the label's Artists Development Department, also
known as "Motown's Finishing School." She guided many, including Smokey
Robinson and the Miracles, the Jackson Five and the Supremes.
She emphasized how artists should carry themselves, treat people and
dress. One performer that didn't need any of her help was Stevie Wonder.
"I didn't do anything for Stevie, he was always beautiful," she said
in an interview with Another Look at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
(Watch above video).
Motown founder Berry Gordy said the training school was the only one of its kind offered at any record label.
Introducing Shopify's 4th Build A Business Competition in partnership with The Huffington Post.
This
year, the nine stores that sell the most over a two-month period will
each receive $50,000 in cash and a VIP trip to New York for an exclusive
meeting with their competition mentor.
FUBU founder and author Daymond John is teaming up with Shopify
to present the fourth Build A Business competition in partnership with
The Huffington Post. The millionaire investor speaks candidly about the
importance of entrepreneurship and the perks of the contest in a brief
promotional video. "I get to sit with some of these amazing people who are now changing
the face of this earth in regards to how they're going to do business,"
John says. "I may meet the next Bill Gates, I may meet the next Steve
Jobs and that's why I want to be part of it." Shopify is offering over $500,000 in cash, prizes, and mentorship to
nine candidates that create a store and sell the most. The winners will
receive exclusive mentorship from John, his Shark Tank co-host Mark
Cuban, Lil John, Selita Ebanks, Chase Jarvis and more. Registration for
the competition begins now, while the calculation of each company's
sales will commence on October 1, 2013 and conclude May 31, 2014. No
experience is required, build your business now.
