Sony Music Disregards Unrecouped Balances For Heritage Catalog Artists Sony has gotten their money from artists ten times over!! Is this the right thing to do aka “good business” or a huge tax write-off to make it “look good?” The perspective of Tim Ingham via Music Busi... Read More...
The Nelson George Mixtape: Artists Issues The creation of black music departments meant bigger advances, larger recording budgets, more coordinated national promotion, and better royalty rates. However, artists still didn’t own their masters, meani... Read More...
The Nelson George Mixtape: The Slow Death of Mom & Pop Retailers Down at the bottom of the musical food chain, yet historically crucial to its health, were Mom & Pop record stores. In every African-American community there were at least one and often two or three ret... Read More...
The Nelson George Mixtape: (What Happened To) Black Concert Promoters? The concerns of black radio were even more intense within the ranks of black concert promoters. From the post- World War II period onward small black promoters, often working with booking agencies focused on ... Read More...
The Nelson George Mixtape: Is It Black or Urban Radio? Since its invention in the 1940s black oriented radio had been the chief vehicles for promoting all forms of black music, from R&B to jazz, gospel to funk. For much of its history these stations had bee... Read More...
Nelson George Mixtape: The R&B World Circa 1979-Black Music Departments Starting in the early ‘70s all the major record companies made a commitment to being in the black music business. Up until then prolific independent labels like Detroit’s Motown, Memphis’ Stax, New York’s A... Read More...
Lifetime to Premiere The Gospel Biopic, Robin Roberts presents: Mahalia Lifetime's highly anticipated gospel biopic Robin Roberts Presents: Mahalia, will premiere Saturday, April 3 at 8:00pm ET/PT. An impressive list of Broadway stars including Tony® nominee Joa... Read More...
The Nelson George Mixtape: R&B World Circa 1979 & the Black Music Association If you had no skin in the game, were not even conceived or simply wish to help yourself…..read…take notes and read more while remembering that what you are about to read IS history. Thank you, Nelson Georg... Read More...
The GDVO & Chi-Sound Music announce World Peace Day 2021 Known as the “Windy City,” Chicago’s rich musical history lives on with the relaunch of Chi-Sound Music Group’s, debut collaboration featuring Marshall Thompson (of the legendary Chi-Lites), Denroy Morgan (ren... Read More...
National Black Radio Hall of Fame 2020-2021Induction Awards Ceremony The National Black Radio Hall of Fame (NBRHOF) Board of Directors have approved the following industry trailblazers into our prestigious national museum for our 2020 and 2021 induction ceremony on Saturday, Feb... Read More...