I imagine everyone knows that Adam’s excellent first single from the CD premiered this morning on Ryan Seacrest’s show http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2009/10/30/adam-lamberts-first-single-for-your-entertainment-debuts-on-ryan-seacrest/… great that RCA and Adam decided to have the dance track to go along with the 2012 track as we talked about recently!
In my last message, I talked about how exciting it’s been that Adam [...]
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Been around the world a few times since my last message but have been thinking of you all and excited about your messages and Adam’s tremendous progress!
I’m in the midst of conversations with RCA and others to help answer some of your questions, especially with respect to the different configurations of bonus tracks; as we’ve [...]
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Tags: Allison Iraheta, Bonus Tracks, Dance Track, Digital Editions, donorschoose.org, Helping Others, itunes, Lady Gaga, RCA, Rob Cavallo, SNL, Warner Music Group
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I’m back in the US and will be reading over all the great messages over Labor Day Weekend (can it really be here already?) and posting detailed replies to your excellent questions and comments. I’m heading to San Francisco and Los Angeles the week of September 14 and hope to have some fun news to [...]
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It’s been an awesome trip but nonstop so I haven’t been online often. I came over for the Madonna concert thanks to Madonna’s publicist, Warner Bros. and Live Nation; as always Madonna puts on a sensational production and delivers powerful social messages, it was great to see her. I’ve been to many galleries and concerts [...]
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Hope you’re having a great August, I always look forward to checking in. We’re planning a lot of events for the Fall on nymichael.com with more featured guests and some surprises.
Stunning news about Paula; it’s disappointing they couldn’t work it out but that’s the nature of the business. As we talked about last month, on [...]
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Tags: American Idol, Idol Tour, Nigel Lythgoe, Paula Abdul, Stage performance, Tour
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With huge thanks to Stacy Jenel Smith, you’ll see the answers to your questions are posted here at nymichael.com, there are a few others she’ll answer later and we’ll update the message.
With respect to music clearances, as you may have seen in my referenced blog post Adam Lambert’s Star Power from an industry perspective 4 [...]
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Tags: diminishing revenue, DMCA, DRM, electronic distribution, itunes, live performances, music clearances, new media, opportunities
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