Close to 30 million American adults have downloaded music files over the Internet and it has been one of the fastest growing Internet activities in the past half-year, especially among men.
Hot Latin stars, sizzling music and celebrity presenters highlighted the Billboard Latin Music Awards Show at Miami Beach's Jackie Gleason Theater of Performing Arts in Miami Beach, Florida. The Telemundo Network televised the event in the U.S.
Performing rights organization BMI presented its 8th Annual Latin Awards with top honors going to "Morir De Amor," songwriters Robert Dee Blades, Jose de Jesus Navarro and Kike Santander, and publisher Foreign Imported Productions and Publishing, Inc.
Univision Communications Inc. announced that it has entered the music recording and publishing businesses through the creation of the Univision Music Group. The new Univision division will be led by music industry veteran, Jose Behar, and will be headquartered in Los Angeles.
Latin sensation Son By Four, nominated in seven categories, has been added to the list of performers set to take the stage for the "Heineken en Vivo" Presents Billboard Latin Music Awards Show at Miami Beach's Jackie Gleason Theater of Performing Arts on April 26.
For the first time ever, a compilation of Latin alternative rock and hip-hop has landed on the Billboard "Latin 50 Albums" sales chart (entering at #38 - and outselling titles by Mana, Shakira and the Gipsy Kings!).
It was a great moment for the bay area Rockeros ORIXA who rocked and kicked off their East Coast Tour at the Mercury Lounge in NYC . The event was the CD release party for Ark 21's ESCENA ALTERLATINA CD which features Julieta Venegas, ORIXA,Volumen Cero,Bayu among others.
East Los Angeles' critically acclaimed favorite sons Los Lobos will be honored with Billboard's Lifetime Achievement Award, El Premio Billboard, at the Billboard Latin Music Awards. The Billboard Awards will be broadcast on Telemundo on Sunday, April 29, 2001
The Latin Recording Academy will stage the 2nd Annual Latin GRAMMY Awards on Sept. 12 at the American Airlines Arena in Miami, it was announced by Recording Academy and Latin Recording Academy President/Chief Executive Officer Michael Greene.
Hot Latin stars, sizzling music and celebrity presenters are in store at the Billboard Latin Music Awards, presented by Heineken, taking place at Miami's Jackie Gleason Theater on April 26, 2001.
Three of the most important Latin alternative acts in the USA will be hitting the road this spring , Miami’s Volumen Cero,San Franciscos Orixa and Los Angeles Cabula. The tour produced by FMF will take place during the 1st week ofApril.
Napster made public the business model that it has been presenting to major labels for the last six months in an effort to settle their dispute and end the industry's effort to shut Napster down in court.
In a major industry announcement, Jose Behar, President & Chief Executive Officer of EMI Latin Records, will be leaving his position at EMI Latin on March 31, 2001, 12 years from the inception of the label.
Televideo Inc., a subsidiary of Hispanic Television Network, announced it has signed a production agreement with the Texas Talent Music Awards (TTMA). The Texas Talent Musician's Association is a non-profit state-charted organization whose purpose is to promote excellence in Tejano music.
IThe enormous diversity of Latin music was clearly evident tonight at the 13th annual edition of Premio Lo Nuestro a la Música Latina, the nation's longest-standing and most successful Latin
