After a few dormant months, allowing me to settle in the US and start as the US editor for UK trade magazine Music Week, the blog...
[This is an expanded version of a story initially published in BASCA's magazine The Works, issue 40.] Simon Napier-Bell Simon Napier-Bell is waiting in the lobby...
by Emmanuel Legrand The US music business is enjoying some sort of renaissance. Amid the merger process that has seen the market reaching new levels of...
by Emmanuel Legrand ReThink Music is one of the new conferences on the music industry circuit. It is the brainchild of the Berklee School of Music...
by Emmanuel Legrand US performing right society ASCAP held its 7th annual ASCAP Expo 'I Create Music' event in Los Angeles April 19-21 at the Hotel...
By Emmanuel Legrand It's never been easy for European artists to find their own market in Europe, and it is certainly not getting any easier. That's...
By Emmanuel Legrand Cesaria Evora, who died on Dec. 17 at the age of 70, was called "the barefoot diva" but aside from the stunning voice,...
By Emmanuel Legrand [This story was initially commissioned by the UK's BASCA. Here's an expanded version of the story published in the winter issue of the...
By Emmanuel Legrand Sometimes figures speak louder than words... Here are a few examples picked up recently. 1.4 million That's roughly the total number of times...