Mary J. Blige and Dave Matthews For the Performance Rights Act During the Grammy awards, two dozen recording artists signed a petition encouraging Congress to pass the Performance Rights Act, also known as HR 848. The PRA would require radio stations to pay royalties to singers in addition to the songwriters who already get paid.
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Mary J Blige Signs on for HR 848
Music sales nose-dive in the past decade
The business model for the record industry has left them behind. Bad music with a new world of digital and social media spell trouble. Paul Porter Industry ears Music sales took nose-dive in past decade By Kim Hart TheHill.com The music industry’s sales have been chopped in half over the past decade, due to changing
Fox News soars and MSNBC ratings tank
Cable News Ratings While Bill O’Reilly continues to dominate cable news at 8pm MSNBC with Keith Olbermann lost 44% of their audience in the month of January. Headline Newss and Nancy Grace soar to number two, while CNN and Campbell Brown continue to trail the pack. Hopefully real news will reappear sometime this decade, opinion
