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3 weeks ago | 
billboard.com | Bill Donahue |Marc Schneider |Jessica Nicholson |Eric Frankenberg
After beating a copyright lawsuit over her holiday classic “All I Want for Christmas is You,” Mariah Carey and other defendants say the little-known songwriter who filed the case must now repay more than $180,000 they spent on lawyers defending his “frivolous” arguments.
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3 weeks ago | 
billboard.com | Marc Schneider |Jessica Nicholson |Eric Frankenberg |Kristin Robinson
Welcome to Publishing Briefs, our semimonthly bulletin of recent signings, deals and doings in the wide world of music publishing.
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3 weeks ago | 
billboard.com | Jessica Nicholson |Eric Frankenberg |Kristin Robinson |Chris Eggertsen
Kiley Donohoe Jessie Addleman Kiley Donohoe has launched Greenhouse Management, with an artist roster that includes “Cowgirls” hitmaker Ernest, as well as artists and hit songwriters Chandler Walters, Rhys Rutherford and Cody Lohden.
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3 weeks ago | 
billboard.com | Eric Frankenberg |Kristin Robinson |Chris Eggertsen |Kerry Doole
Last week (March 26), Lady Gaga announced dates and venues for The MAYHEM Ball, marking her first tour in three years and the sixth such “ball” of her career, dating back to 2009’s The Fame Ball. With ticket sales rolling out this week (beginning March 31), Billboard estimates that the tour could land as her fourth trek to gross $100 million. An ever-expanding slate of shows have pushed Gaga’s 2025 projections from the brink of $100 million to surging toward $125 million.
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4 weeks ago | 
billboard.com | Eric Frankenberg
Shakira encabeza la lista mensual de giras Top Tours de Billboard por primera vez, al recaudar 32,9 millones de dólares con la venta de 282,000 boletos en febrero, según cifras reportadas a Billboard Boxscore.
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4 weeks ago | 
billboard.com | Bill Donahue |Chris Eggertsen |Eric Frankenberg
Dua Lipa won a ruling Thursday (March 27) dismissing a copyright lawsuit claiming she copied her smash hit song “Levitating” from two different decades-old songs. The case, filed in 2022 by songwriters L. Russell Brown and Sandy Linzer, accused Lipa of ripping off their 1979 song “Wiggle and Giggle All Night” and their 1980 song “Don Diablo.” The lawsuit was one of two high-profile copyright cases filed over “Levitating,” a massive hit that spent 77 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100.
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4 weeks ago | 
billboard.com | Chris Eggertsen |Bill Donahue |Eric Frankenberg |Glenn Peoples
BEAT Music Fund, the dance music investment company from Armada Music Group, acquired the rights to “a large portion” of masters from DJ, producer and Turbo Recordings founder Tiga. The deal includes Tiga’s “Sunglasses at Night,” “Bugatti,” “You Gonna Want Me,” “Let’s Go Dancing” and “HAL” featuring Kölsch. BEAT previously signed catalog deals with Kevin Saunderson, Markus Schulz, Robbie Rivera, Jax Jones, Amba Shepherd, VIVa MUSiC, Sola Records, King Street Sounds, Chocolate Puma and others.
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4 weeks ago | 
billboard.com | Bill Donahue |Chris Eggertsen |Eric Frankenberg |Glenn Peoples
Latin music executive Angel Del Villar was convicted by a federal jury Thursday (March 27) on felony charges of doing business with a concert promoter linked to Mexican drug cartels, setting the stage for a potential decades-long prison sentence.
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4 weeks ago | 
billboard.com | Eric Frankenberg |Chris Eggertsen |Glenn Peoples |Gary Trust
Shakira tops Billboard’s monthly Top Tours chart for the first time, earning $32.9 million from 282,000 tickets sold in February, according to figures reported to Billboard Boxscore. The Top Tours ranking in recent times has been repeatedly led by acts who have crowned the list previously. P!nk returned for her fourth victory in October, followed by Coldplay’s fifth in November. Trans-Siberian Orchestra popped up for a fifth time in December, and then Coldplay returned to the summit in January.
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1 month ago | 
billboard.com | Eric Frankenberg
Top 10 Highest Grossing Women in Comedy of the 2020s — So FarHere is a recap of Billboard Boxscore's top-grossing women in comedy this decade, including Nikki Glaser, Ali Wong, Tina Fey and more.
