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  1. Music Execs Rising Pay — A $34.6 Million Year for Irving Azoff

    9:00 am 5/3/2012
    • by Georg Szalai

    Higher notes in 2011 salaries include a 52 percent increase for the chairman of Live Nation.Read more

  2. Music's Pandora and Live Nation Disclose Executive Compensation

    2:05 pm 4/25/2012
    • by Paul Bond

    The concert promoter pays its CEO $11.9 million while the streamer of digital music pays its CEO less than $1 million. Neither firm turned a profit in their latest fiscal year.Read more

  3. Ron Fair's Next Moves: A&R Gig on 'The Voice'; Front Line Management Consultancy; Darren Criss Album

    5:00 am 4/3/2012
    • by Shirley Halperin

    The veteran music producer and executive will guide artists signed through the NBC program, while at Irving Azoff's Front Line, he'll dispense advice and creative juice as needed. Plus: Fair reveals he's had "extensive meetings" with the "Glee" star about his forthcoming debut. Read more

  4. BigChampagne CEO on Live Nation Deal: 'We’re Going From Playing a Little Club to the Biggest Stage in the World'

    6:00 am 12/15/2011
    • by Shirley Halperin

    Eric Garland, founder of the media measurement company, tells THR, "I haven’t even begun to wrap my head around how big these properties are together."Read more

  5. Madonna Signs With Interscope, Source Confirms

    3:56 pm 12/14/2011
    • by Jem Aswad

    The singer signed a 10-year multi-rights deal with Live Nation -- said to be worth as much as $100 million -- in 2007, and has inked a three-album pact with Interscope at a base of $1 million per album.Read more

  6. Hollywood's Biggest Real Estate Deals of the Week: Alec Baldwin, 'Big Bang's' Simon Helberg, Flea, Larry Ellison, Zynga's Mark Pincus

    6:18 pm 10/28/2011
    • by Degen Pener

    Who's buying, who's selling and who's chopping prices for the week ending October 30.Read more

  7. What the X Is This All About?

    9:40 am 8/24/2011
    • by Shirley Halperin

    Eleventh-hour hirings, a bitter exit, an angry lawsuit by an "Idol" frenemy. Even before the U.S. version of England's most successful TV show debuts, Simon Cowell has his cherished buzz. Now, the global reality kingpin seriously unloads on his detractors and reveals his plans to get 20 million viewers. Anything less? A "disappointment," he saysRead more

  8. 'The X Factor' Winner and Finalists to Be Managed by Front Line (Exclusive)

    5:47 pm 8/3/2011
    • by Shirley Halperin

    Irving Azoff's company, a division of Live Nation, has partnered with Simon Cowell's Syco to manage the show's future stars. Read more

  9. What's In a Concert Ticket? New Book Details 'How the Public Got Scalped'

    6:00 am 5/18/2011
    • by Shirley Halperin

    Co-author Dean Budnick previews 'Ticket Masters' (out June 1), which chronicles the rise of the concert industry's second greatest commodity: the piece of paper that says "admit one." Read more

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