Introducing Billboard
The world’s premier music publication, Billboard has served the entertainment business since 1894. Beginning as a weekly for the billposting and advertising business, Billboard and its popular music charts have evolved into the primary source of information on trends and innovation in music, serving music fans, artists, top executives, tour promoters, publishers, radio programmers, lawyers, retailers, digital entrepreneurs and many others.
As Billboard’s consumer-faced online home, Billboard.com features an extensive array of searchable, playable charts, breaking music news, artist interviews and exclusives, news, video and more. Launched in 1995 as Billboard Online, Billboard.com now attracts more than 4 million unique visitors each month in more than 100 countries and has become the de facto digital destination for popular music.
Billboard is headquartered in New York with bureaus in London, Los Angeles, and Miami, and has editorial correspondents in major cities around the globe.
Introducing VEVO
VEVO is the leading innovative online premium music and entertainment service for consumers, advertisers and content owners that blends the very best in musical content with cutting-edge video technology and a thriving user community powered by YouTube. The content is made available on YouTube through a VEVO-branded channel, on VEVO.com, the service’s marquee destination site, and through a VEVO-branded embedded player. The service also serves as a syndication platform for additional internet destination sites, expanding the reach of the VEVO brand across the worldwide Web.
VEVO was created in partnership by Universal Music Group (UMG), Sony Music Entertainment (SME) and the Abu Dhabi Media Company. It is operated independently by a dedicated management team with offices in Los Angeles and New York. VEVO features the most extensive catalog of premium music content found anywhere on the web thanks to deals with such leading music companies as Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment, EMI Music, Hollywood Records, Walt Disney Records, CBS Interactive Music Group, Big Machine Records, Concord Music Group, Lyric Street Records, ABKCO, Caroline Distribution, Fontana Distribution, INgrooves, IODA, RED and The Orchard, among many others. Explore VEVO at www.vevo.com.
Introducing Nicole Leeper – One Blessed Calling
By Lisbeny Duran
Being involved in many different aspects of ministry is a dream that Nicole is living in the physical. Her ability to incorporate seemingly different passions seamlessly into one speaks of her character and true devotion to God and His people.
Introducing Lou DiCiccio – WHAT IS SURE TO BE AN EXCITING FUTURE
By Lisbeny Duran
True, lasting progress is never a flash-in-the-pan coincidence. It requires cultivation of skill, perseverance, and a drive to make a mental image into a tangible reality. The seemingly rapid success of Melrose Music Group, founded only recently in 2008, actually began its development much earlier, in a small town in Pennsylvania.
MELROSE MUSIC GROUP ARTIST MELODIE JOY NOMINATED FOR THE 2010 DOVE AWARDS!
Nominations for the 41st annual GMA Dove Awards have been announced by the Gospel Music Association in Nashville Tennessee. Melrose Music Group is pleased to announce a major achievement for one of our very own. Melodie Joy’s latest project “Su Vida, Sus Pasos, Su Voz” has been nominated for “Spanish Language Album of the Year.”
SIGN UP TO WIN AN IPOD NANO!
Here’s the scoop on Melrose Music Group’s exclusive Newsletter iPod Giveaway! At the end of February, three lucky Melrose Music Group Newsletter Subscribers will win an iPod nano!!! iPod nano brings video to your music with the new built-in video camera. And for that extra kick: a larger screen and a polished aluminum finish in brilliant colors.
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Introducing Eric Lopez – ON THE CUSP OF YET ANOTHER MILESTONE
By Lisbeny Duran
The last decade has been one of fruitful growth in Eric Lopez’s life. His career has launched to new heights and his passion for art, music, and worship has had the opportunity to flourish under guided and blessed direction.
GOSPEL MUSIC CHANNEL NAMES JAVEN AS ONE OF THE TOP 10 ARTISTS TO WATCH IN 2010
Los Angeles-based artist/actor Javen is the quintessential ‘go getter.’ And his dossier is all over the map. Since 2002, he’s co-hosted BET’s The Paula White Show with the charismatic Florida pastor, landed in the off-Broadway theatrical production of The Rock & the Rabbi, and gone on to land supporting roles in feature films like One Night with the King, starring Peter O’Toole and Omar Sharif, and Abandoned and The Preacher’s Kid, both due out in 2010.
DOWNLOAD OUR NEW RELEASES AVAILABLE ON ITUNES AND AMAZON.COM
Melrose Music Group and Universal Music Group have made our most recent catalog available for download through Apple iTunes and on Amazon.com.
JAVEN FEATURED IN WARNER BROTHERS FILM “PREACHER’S KID” IN THEATRES JANUARY 29, 2010
Melrose Music Group recording artist Javen is featured in the epic Warner Brothers film “Preacher’s Kid” which will be in select theatres on January 29, 2010.
LARUE HOWARD CONTINUES TO MAKE A MARK IN GOSPEL MUSIC
Dove Award winning Praise and Worship Leader LaRue Howard is gearing up for her next CD release! This anticipated album will be a timeless and powerful worship experience.
GOSPEL ARTIST JAVEN NOMINATED FOR GMC MUSIC VIDEO AWARD
JAVEN has been nominated for the GMC Music Video Awards in the “Best Contemporary Video of the Year” category for his chart topping release “None Like You”. Winners will be announced in a one-hour television special to premiere on GMC, Saturday, Jan. 2, 2010.
