Sometimes, music motivates us to do good things.
From the Concert for Bangladesh , to Live Aid , War Child and the re-release of "We are the World" for Haiti's tragedy , music has been used as a powerful communication medium to promote social and political awareness whilst raising significant sums of money for many worthy causes.
Video: http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OX6KgkeT8w Did you know that one third of Brits and Americans would "give anything” to meet their favorite popstars and that Korea is the place to be if you're launching a music streaming service?
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GARY CHEN, CEO, Top100.cn,is at the cusp of a huge breakthrough in China and he knows it. The Beijing based co-founder of Top100.cn, a download service, believes that the possibilities are limitless now that Google has signed a deal with the company. With Google’s clout among advertisers and the website’s partnership deals with all the major labels and more than 140 smaller ones, there’s now a way for the legitimate service to take on Baidu and other unauthorized pirate sites. More importantly,...Read more
The organisers ofMusic Matters – the Asia Pacific Music Forumare delighted to announce that the grand finale to this year’s event at theGrand Hyattin Hong Kong will feature an exclusive performance from multimillion album sellingJamie Cullum.As a part of the closing session, Jamie will be interviewed at the piano about his life and inspirations by music industry legend, Ralph Simon. Additionally, Music Matters delegates will have the unique opportunity to ask the 29-year-old singer...Read more
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Calvin Wong, EVP, Warner Music
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Lachie Rutherford, PRESIDENT & CEO, Warner Music
Kei Ishizaka, CEO & Chairman, Universal Music LLC Japan (Chairman RIAJ)
Michael Nash, EVP Digital Strategy & Business Development, Warner M...Read more
donates over HK$ 200,000 in admission tickets toalivenotdead.commembers to attend Asia Pacific’s only music business conference, Music Matters!In a move to support Hong Kong’s creative and musical communities,Music Mattershas announced a donation of over HK$ 200,000 worth of admission tickets to artists and bands who are members of Hong Kong based artist sitealivenotdead.com. Working closely withalivenotdead.com’sco-founders, Patrick Lee (CEO), Stephen Wang (CTO) from Rotten Tomatoes, and Daniel Wu (吴彦祖), Terence Y...Read more
With the spotlight on the Asian music industry and new technologies providing more platforms to connect music with the fans, Music Matters 2009 looks at the shift from Content to Context, and everything that lies in between!
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