Live Nation has sold the Foxwoods Theatre in New York to Lyric Theatre, LLC, a subsidiary of Ambassador Theatre Group (ATG). The Foxwoods Theatre will become the 40th theatre in the ATG portfolio and the UK company’s first theatre in the United States. Ticketing for the Foxwoods Theatre will continue to be provided by Ticketmaster
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Live Nation sells Foxwoods Theatre to UK’s ATG
Global Group executive Richard Park’s near 50-year broadcasting career was recognised at this year’s Sony Radio Academy Awards as he received the prestigious Gold Award.
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Global’s Park wins top Sony award
The nominations for the 2013 Arqiva Commercial Radio Awards have been announced with Bauer leading the pack. Bauer has garnered 16 nominations across 12 different categories with Global not far behind with 14 nominations
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Bauer leads Arqiva Awards 2013 nominations
The longlist for the Scottish Album of the Year Award has been revealed with Official UK chart-toppers Calvin Harris amongst the twenty nominees. The Scottish Music Industry Association (SMIA) revealed the list for the pretigious arts prize, representing a variety of styles of music from musical talent in Scotland, and celebrating the most outstanding records of 2012. Muso’s Guide reports that 100 submissions were received from specially-invited nominators scross the UK music industry as well as elsewhere in the arts and media.
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Scottish Album of the Year longlist revealed
The nominations for the Sony Radio Academy Awards 2013 have been revealed. 2012 was a key year for radio as it covered huge events including the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee and the Olympic and Paralympic Games. This is reflected in the 10 nominations for Radio 5 live, including the blue riband UK Station of the Year, which is also contested by the digital station BBC Asian Network, just two years after it was threatened with closure, and Classic FM – last year’s ‘Special Award’ winner, that has a total of five nominations for 2013, including the new award category UK Radio Brand of the Year.
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Sony Radio Academy Awards 2013 nominations revealed
ALBUMS There are seven debuts in the Top 40 – the highest for 10 weeks – but none of them can match the motion picture cast recording of Les Miserables, which rebounds 2-1 on sales of 35,834 copies. That brings the overall sales of the album – which has been in the top five every week since its release five weeks ago – to 190,921, making it an early leader in the year-to-date rankings. Number one for two previous weeks, Les Mis returned to number one by overturning a substantial deficit to Courteeners’ third album Anna, which topped Tuesday’s midweek sales flashes with a 53.33% lead.
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Official Charts Analysis: Les Mis soundtrack is 2013′s biggest-selling LP so far
ALBUMS Two weeks after introductory single Black Chandelier debuted and peaked at number 14 on the singles chart, Biffy Clyro’s sixth studio album, Opposites, secures the Scots band its first UK number one.
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Official Charts Analysis: Biffy first Scottish band for 6 years to score No.1 album
SINGLES It’s a unique top three this week, made up entirely of one-off rap/vocal collaborations between very experienced American recording artists. The seven artists involved have amassed over 200 hits between them, and made their first impression on the chart between 1997 and 2004. Trailing the 50 Cent/Eminem/Adam Levine collaboration My Life , and under threat from Justin Timberlake/Jay-Z collaboration Suit & Tie on all of the midweek sales flashes, Scream & Shout managed to reassert itself to spend a second week in pole position for Will.Iam feat.
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Official Charts Analysis: Les Mis album tops 55k first week sales
SINGLES The race for the coveted Christmas number one is over – and as widely anticipated, The Justice Collective’s recording of He Ain’t Heavy He’s My Brother tops the list, dethroning James Arthur’s Impossible. Released to commemorate the 1989 Hillsborough disaster, which saw 96 Liverpool fans lose their lives at Sheffield Wednesday’s football ground, the track benefits Liverpool Charity & Voluntary Services, and is symbolic of the continuing campaign for justice waged by victims’ families. As such, it attracted a great deal of media attention, and includes contributions from Liverpudlians Paul McCartney, Gerry Marsden
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Official Charts Analysis: James Arthur’s Impossible is 3rd biggest-selling No.2 of 21st Century
Public voting to decide the winners of the ninth annual UK Festival Awards is now open and will run until October 31, 2012. More than 200 British contemporary music festivals have applied to take part in the awards this year, which exist to recognise and congratulate the people whose work has entertained more than 3 million festival-goers in the UK this summer, in spite of the wettest weather conditions since records began. The Best Major Festival category sees Reading & Leeds, V Festival, Download and Scotland’s T in the Park battling it out with group newcomer Bestival
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Public voting now open for UK Festival Awards 2012
ALBUMS In a year which reached the three-quarters stage on Saturday, only three artist albums have racked up weekly sales north of 100,000 thus far. In February, debut albums by Lana Del Rey (Born To Die) and Emeli Sande (Our Version Of Events) opened in pole position on sales of 116,745 and 113,319, respectively – and in the latest frame, Mumford & Son’s second album, Babel, opens its campaign with a sale of 158,923 copies.
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Official Charts Analysis: Mumford & Sons sell 158k, Gangnam Style makes history
Creamfields has revealed a route to refund for all those who attended the festival, cancelled last month due to torrential rain. Most weekend ticket options will get up to a 50% refund while Sunday-only tickets will be refunded in full, as long as they were bought from official outlets. The festival’s organisers said in a statement , “Firstly we’d like to apologise for the delay in getting these details to you, we do understand your frustration however, there are several parties involved and it’s taken a little longer than anticipated to pull all this information together, rest assured this has been a top priority for us.
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Creamfields refund scheme confirmed
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