by publishers working through performance rights organizations like ASCAP and BMI, but Azoff is spearheading a new venture, Global Music Rights (GMR), which has managed to sign up about 42 songwriters, including Smokey Robinson and Chris Cornell, who collectively have published about 20,000 songs...
Azoff hasinformed YouTubethat it lacks performance rights for these 20,000 songs — including ones bySmokey Robinson,Chris Cornell, and George and Ira Gershwin. Since November, when YouTube announced the coming launch of a subscription service to compete with Spotify and Pandora, Az...
, the channel hosted by the legendary DJ Premier. The Gang Starr producer drops history lessons about the songs he created for various artists, including Big Daddy Kane, Das EFX, Janet Jackson, Limp Bizkit, and The Notorious B.I.G. Come for the stories, stay for the beat machines and ...