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By Nekesa Mumbi Moody, Associated Press
| 9:26 PM, January 27
The Rev. Jesse Jackson is entering the fray over The Recording Academy's cuts to its Grammy categories: He's asking to meet with the president of the organization and has raised the possibility of protests with the awards less than two weeks away.
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By Glenn Peoples, Nashville
| 8:42 PM, January 27
In a post at the blog of his New Music Seminar, Tommy Silverman walks readers through a litany of stats from 2011 that give reason to feel good about the state of the record business: strong growth in digital album sales, surprisingly resilient CD sales, CD sales on the Internet and healthy vinyl LP sales. Also, MXP4, creator of social, music-based games, announced the launch of two new games that will be launched during MIDEM. And Chilling Effects, a website that acts as a clearinghouse for DMCA takedown requests, is posting all takedown requests submitted to Twitter.
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By David Downs, San Francisco
| 8:04 PM, January 27
Public Enemy founder and Bomb Squad producer Hank Shocklee evangelized for Apple's disruptive effects on the music industry, then performed on some Apple products of his own during a headlining gig at the 27th annual MacWorld | iWorld expo Friday afternoon in San Francisco. "Music today is the biggest it's ever been," Shocklee told Billboard.biz. "But you have to understand, we're not in Kansas anymore."
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By Dan Rys, New York
| 6:14 PM, January 27
Fans attempting to purchase tickets for Bruce Springsteen's upcoming "Wrecking Ball" tour were locked out by a frozen Ticketmaster site, which the company attributed to an "assault" by scalpers looking to re-sell tickets for a profit.
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By Dan Rys, New York
| 4:36 PM, January 27
Epic Records Chairman/CEO L.A. Reid announced today that Pough, who had previously worked as SVP of Urban Promotion at Island Def Jam Music Group, would be overseeing urban promotion strategies and business models for the label.
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By Jason Lipshutz, New York
| 4:12 PM, January 27
On Thursday night (Jan. 26), Antony Hegarty of Antony & The Johnsons unveiled "Swanlights," an operating, awe-inspiring one-time performance piece presented in conjunction with the Museum of Modern Art at Radio City Music Hall in New York.
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By Associated Press
| 4:05 PM, January 27
Facebook is expected to file IPO paperwork as early as next week, in a move that would value the social networking site at between $75-$100 billion, dwarfing Google's initial IPO value of $23 billion in 2004.
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By Maria Sherman, @mariasherm N.Y.
| 3:15 PM, January 27
Last night, hotly-tipped Cleveland-based band Cloud Nothings performed in front of a sold out crowd (which included a 40-person press list) at NYC's Studio at Webster Hall. In the house: booking agent Dan Traci from the Windish Agency, Jason Kapiskosky from Carpark and Pitchfork founder Ryan Schreiber -- a frequent sighting at indie buzz-band shows who partied like it was his birthday because, well, it was his birthday.
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By Associated Press
| 3:00 PM, January 27
Dick Kniss, a bassist who performed for five decades with the folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary and co-wrote the John Denver hit "Sunshine on My Shoulders," has died. He was 74.
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By Ed Christman, New York
| 12:46 PM, January 27
Willard Ahdritz, Founder and CEO of Kobalt Music Group, today announced the appointment of Richard Sanders to the newly created position of President.
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By Glenn Peoples, Nashville
| 12:15 PM, January 27
Spotify has broken the 3 million subscriber barrier across its 12 markets, meaning that despite high-profile holdouts like Adele and the Black Keys, the service is still growing strong.
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