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Jermaine Dupri, Ne-Yo Special Honorees At ASCAP Rhythm & Soul Awards
April 30: Ne-Yo performs at the Power 105.1 DJ Prostyle’s Birthday Bash at Best Buy Theater in New York City. Jermaine Dupri and Ne-Yo will receive ASCAP’s Founders Award and Golden Note Award, respectively, at the performing rights organization’s 27th annual Rhythm & Soul Music Awards. The invitation-only event will be held June 26 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles. Grammy Award-winning artist/songwriter/producer Dupri, a 2005 Golden Note honoree, joins such previous Founder Award recipients as Dr. Dre, Berry Gordy Jr., Quincy Jones, Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder. Tom Petty, Fun., Max Martin Honored at ASCAP Pop Awards A fellow Grammy winner as well, singer/songwriter/producer Ne-Yo enters a Golden Note circle that also includes past honorees Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis, Jay Z, Pharrell Williams and Alicia Keys. In addition to these special honors, the ASCAP Rhythm & Soul Music Awards will salute the songwriters and publishers of the most-performed ASCAP songs on the 2013 R&B/hip-hop, rap and gospel charts.
Jay Z splits from longtime business partner John Meneilly, who helped make Roc Nation and Rocawear successful
Jay Z has ended his partnership with John Meneilly, a man he once called his ‘consigliere.’ On to the next one. Jay Z and Solange Knowles may have (publicly at least) squashed whatever beef led to their now-infamous elevator brawl, but Hova and his longtime business manager are over. Music industry insiders exclusively tell Confidenti@l that Jay Z has cut ties with John Meneilly, who helped build the “Empire State” rapper’s empire. According to one well-placed music industry insider, Meneilly didn’t want to go: “It wasn’t his choice. A second source close to the split, however, described it as “amicable and mutual” and says the agreement was made “a couple months ago.” Mutiple calls to Meneilly went unanswered. Music industry insiders tell Confidenti@l that news of Meneilly’s departure started making the rounds shortly before Memorial Day weekend. RAY TAMARRA/GETTY IMAGESLongtime Jay Z business partner John Meneilly (pictured left) has cut ties with the rapper. Meneilly helped build Jay Z’s Roc Nation, which was born as a record label and transitioned into a talent agency. He also helped build the Rocawear clothing line before it was sold. For more than a decade Meneilly sat at the center of Jay Z’s notoriously tight inner circle. The former Provident Financial executive is largely credited with navigating the rise of the Rocawear clothing line, which Jay Z sold off for $200 million in 2007 while maintaining marketing and licensing rights. Meneilly is also credited as one of the architects behind Jay Z’s huge deal with Samsung last year, which instantly moved a million copies of the rapper’s “Magna Carta Holy Grail.” Meneilly was also a chief player at Roc Nation, which has grown from a record label to a talent management group that reps Yankee CC Sabathia and former Bronx Bomber Robinson Cano. While Jay Z has always been reluctant to call Meneilly his “manager,” he referred to his once trusted confidant as his “consigliere,” according to Forbes writer Zack O’Malley Greenburg, who literally wrote the book on the Brooklyn music mogul. When meeting with Meneilly to begin work on 2011’s “Empire State of Mind,” a book on Jay Z’s business philosophy, Greenburg recalls a down-to-business man who set the tone for the negotiation by immediately asking, “What’s in it for us?” The “99 Problems” rapper is having a rough couple of weeks for sure. In addition to a surveillance video that went public of his sister-in-law pummeling him after the Met Ball gala in mid-May, photos of Jay and Bey sufaced in the Hamptons last weekend while his “Watch the Throne” collaborator Kanye West was marrying Kim Kardashian in Europe. Jay Z is also being sued for $7 million by an artist who says the rapper ripped off his Roc-A-Fella records logo design in 1995. Jay Z’s legal team is trying to postpone that case while Mr. and Mrs. Carter are on tour this summer.
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“Good instincts usually tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out.” -Michael Burke
Rap Genius Co-Founder Mahbod Moghadam Resigns Following Elliot Rodger Annotation Controversy
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If Jermaine Dupri Started a Label from scratch today, How would he go about it?
During this years ASCAP expo, Valholla Entertainment Chairman/CEO Vince Eyma (@VinceValholla) got to ask Grammy Award Winning record producer/songwriter/manager, Jermaine Dupri how he’d go about starting a record label today. From scratch of course. He also talks about how he named Lil Jon as an A&R for So So Def.
Billboard Twitter Real-Time Charts Go Live
Today, Billboard and Twitter officially launch the Billboard Twitter Real-Time Charts. These new, interactive charts redefine how fans interact with, and influence, popular content by ranking the most popular songs being shared on Twitter in the U.S. The first of the real-time charts, the Billboard Trending 140, is an up to the minute ranking of songs shared in the U.S., measured by acceleration over the past hour. This chart can be filtered to present a real-time view of the most shared track in the U.S. over the past 24 hours, with a weekly summary presented as the Billboard Twitter Top Tracks chart on Billboard.com and in print in Billboard. The Billboard Twitter Emerging Artists chart is a ranking of the most shared songs on Twitter in the U.S. by up-and-coming artists ranked by the number of times each song was shared over the past 24 hours. Billboard Twitter Emerging Artists is presented as a seven-day/weekly round up on Billboard.com and in print in Billboard. VIEW THE CHARTS: TRENDING 140 | EMERGING ARTISTS Song shares are tracked and incorporated into the Billboard Twitter Real-Time Charts by: * the use of, or the inclusion, of a link to the song via music listening platforms, such as Spotify, Vevo and iTunes. * the use of various track sharing notations, such as the hashtags “#nowplaying” or “#np,” along with song/artist name. * the use of various terms associated with the song and song playing, such as “music,” “song,” “track,” “listen.” The charts are specifically designed to work with how users share and interact with music on Twitter, which is the most discussed subject on the platform in the U.S. with more than one billion Tweets sent about the topic in 2013. One-hundred million of those Tweets came from music accounts, and seven of the top 10 most-followed accounts on the entire platform are musicians. Billboard and Twitter Partner To Create ‘Billboard Twitter Real-Time Charts’ Austin Mahone Debuts ‘Shadow’ on ‘Today’ To launch the Billboard Twitter Real-Time charts, Billboard teamed up with pop star Austin Mahone to showcase just how the sharing of a track by fans on Twitter, in this case with “The Shadow” – a song from his just-released EP “The Secret” – can drive popularity and chart ranking. “I am thrilled to be one of the first artists to see my songs move on the Billboard Twitter Charts,” said Mahone. “For me, it’s always about my fans, and I love seeing what all my Mahomies are saying about the new EP – it’s exciting that there’s finally a platform that tracks what the fans are saying about music in real-time.” The Billboard Twitter Real-Time charts are another example of Billboard staying at the forefront of tracking music consumption. With the launch in recent years of theSocial 50, On-Demand Songs and Streaming Songs, and now the Billboard Twitter Real-Time charts, Billboard has empowered music fans and music consumers with rankings that reflect how they interact with music and artists. Consistent placement in the high rankings of the real-time chart can help artists gain placement on the two weekly versions of the real-time charts, which will be found in print each week in Billboard magazine. More detailed information about the Billboard Twitter Real-Time charts can be found here, and be sure to check back often to find the most talked-about artists on Twitter.