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The 2nd Annual Urban Music Awards USA is set to take over New York City on July 18th, 2009 at Manhattan's Highline Ballroom. In light of the recent success of US and UK collaborations featuring UMA nominees Estelle feat. Kanye West, Taio Cruz feat. Busta Rhymes, M.I.A feat. Jay-Z, TI, Kanye West and more. The UMA's are returning with the 'United We Stand' initiative, which offers the opportunity to see the best UK has to offer coupled with the biggest US acts, live on one stage. "We are very excited for 2009 as all artists know that their bread and butter now lies in international bookings and it's extremely paramount that collaborations are celebrated leading to music fans being exposed to new good quality music worldwide" added Jordan Kensington, CEO of Invincible Group, & The Urban Music Awards. The Urban Music Awards is always known for setting trends for others to follow, by being the first truly independent awards ceremony to give music fans ...

Legal Ease For artists who are releasing their own record for the first time, without the involvement or assistance of a label, the process can be a little intimidating. It can be easy to miss some key legal details in the process. Here, therefore, is a very basic checklist of issues to be considered when releasing a record. Bear in mind, though, that your own particular circumstances may dictate that you take certain steps that are different from, or in addition to, the various steps mentioned below. Also, it has been necessary to greatly oversimplify some of the issues discussed below due to space limitations. 1) Agreement Between Members of Group . If it is a group (as opposed to a solo artist) releasing the record, and if the group has not already formalized its relationship by way of a partnership agreement, incorporation, or limited liability company ("LLC"), the...

There are several representatives who can help and guide you through your music career. A list of the music agents with the most impact on the musician's career might include the following: The Personal Manager The Talent Agent (or Music Booking Agent) The Music Attorney The Business Manager Although there is overlap in the functions of these representatives, each one plays a distinct role in the musician's career. Let's briefly discuss the role of each one. The Personal Manager: A personal manager aids you in molding your music and entertainment career. Typically, the personal manager works with performing singers and instrumentalists, or those songwriters who also perform. Musicians who are songwriters only may get a lot of management assistance from music publishers. The personal manager's duties are varied and often undefined. At the beginning of your career, he devotes the most attention to helping you secure a recording contract or songwriter agreement. He helps y...

Music publishing has long been the world’s sleepiest $4 billion industry. A startup that just acquired a chunk of the Nirvana catalog thinks that’s changing. The past few years have been unkind to record labels, which have seen CD sales plunge by about a third since 1999. But many believe that music publishers—which control the rights to original songs—will thrive in the digital future. For example, even if fans illegally download Beatles tracks, Sony/ATV Music Publishing, the publisher of those songs, can still make money by licensing them for use across the increasingly fragmented media landscape. That’s why Primary Wave Music Publishing—a startup backed by the Credit Suisse Group and the Greenwich, Connecticut, hedge fund Plainfield Asset Management—has recently spent roughly $150 million, according to a source close to the company, to buy publishing rights from songwriters, including a reported $50 million for some rights to Nirvana songs. As a rights holder, Primary Wave collects...