A quick bit about the business of American Idol… as we’ve discussed, Simon Cowell’s contract doesn’t come up until next year (in 2005, when he settled with Simon Fuller, the creator of AI, in connection with The X Factor, he agreed to participate through AI9 and that’s why his company Syco basically has the first [...]

Posted in: Industry Perspective by nymichael / Tags: Mechanical Royalties, Publishing, Simon Cowell

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Your questions and Tom O’Neil’s answers were great, and we’ll have more special guests coming soon. This month has been a blur with multiple international deadlines but there’s light at the end of the tunnel. I can only imagine what Adam’s month has been like :) I’ve been following and reading your thoughtful messages and [...]

Posted in: Industry Perspective by nymichael / Tags: AI Rules and Release Form, Crawl Thru Fire, Monte Pittman, New CD, On With The Show

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Here are answers to your nymichael.com questions from Tom O’Neil; hope you find them interesting and informative. To make it simpler, here are questions and answers together. Tom mentioned he had lots of fun answering them and we’re planning more guests in the near future. I hope you’ll join me in saying thanks to Tom [...]

Posted in: General by nymichael / Tags: American Idol, Awards, Broadway, Career, Genre, Gold Derby, Grammys, Management, Openly gay, RS Interview, Tom O'Neil, Vision for the Album

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It was pretty surprising about Susan Boyle (and for those that asked, Britain’s Got Talent charges people to vote… “Each phone vote costs 50p from a BT landline. Calls from other networks may be higher and from mobiles will be considerably more.15p from each phone vote goes to the Royal Variety charity, The Entertainment Artistes’ [...]

Posted in: Uncategorized by nymichael / Tags: Agreements, AI9, Britain's Got Talent, Judges, RCA/Jive, Simon Cowell, Susan Boyle, Voting

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