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South Korea’s SM Entertainment plans to set up its Southeast Asia headquarters in Singapore
SM Entertainment’s SMTown entertainment complex in Seoul, South Korea, in 2015. SM Entertainment declined to say how much the company is investing into its Southeast Asian expansion, but said it’s “in the midst of hiring more local talents, which will hopefully increase the full-time staff count.” SeongJoon Cho | Bloomberg | Getty Images South Korean […]
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Irene Cara, Oscar-winning singer of ‘Fame’ and ‘Flashdance’ title tracks, dies at 63
Irene Cara attends an event, circa 1990s. (Photo by Vinnie Zuffante/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images) Michael Ochs Archives | Michael Ochs Archives | Getty Images Irene Cara, the Oscar-winning musician best known for singing the title tracks to the movies “Fame” and “Flashdance” has died, her publicist said Saturday. She was 63. “It is with profound […]
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Taylor Swift’s tour promoter says it had no choice but to work with Ticketmaster
Taylor Swift accepts the Artist of the Year award onstage during the 2022 American Music Awards at Microsoft Theater on November 20, 2022 in Los Angeles, California. Kevin Winter | Getty Images Entertainment | Getty Images Taylor Swift’s tour promoter is shifting blame for the botched “Eras” ticket sale squarely onto Ticketmaster, potentially fueling even […]
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Taylor Swift slams ‘outside entity’ over ticket fiasco: ‘I’m not going to make excuses for anyone’
Taylor Swift performs onstage during iHeartRadio’s Z100 Jingle Ball 2019 Presented By Capital One on December 13, 2019 in New York City. Kevin Mazur | Getty Images Taylor Swift responded to her fans Friday after Live Nation‘s Ticketmaster said a general public sale of tickets to the superstar’s “Eras” tour would be canceled because there […]
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Taylor Swift public ticket sale on Friday is canceled, Ticketmaster says. But the secondary current market can be ‘buyer beware’
Essential Factors Ticketmaster declared Thursday afternoon that it has canceled public ticket sale programs for Taylor Swift’s forthcoming “The Eras Tour.” A cornern for consumers: The secondary current market has found a “rise in fraudulent, unethical and unlawful things to do” like ticketing scalping and ticket touting, in accordance to Technavio, a sector researcher. “If […]
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Ticketmaster’s largest shareholder blames massive demand − including from bots − for Taylor Swift ticket fiasco
Now we got bad bots. The CEO of Liberty Media, Live Nation’s largest shareholder, defended the event promoter against calls that it should be broken up following a storm of glitches and site failures during Ticketmaster presales this week for Taylor Swift’s upcoming tour. Live Nation is sympathetic to fans who couldn’t get tickets, Greg […]
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Tennessee AG investigating Ticketmaster after Taylor Swift ticket chaos
Taylor Swift performs at the 2019 American Music Awards in Los Angeles, November 24, 2019. Mario Anzuoni | Reuters Tennessee’s attorney general said he is launching an investigation into Ticketmaster after his office was flooded with complaints over the ticket company’s website crashing Tuesday as Taylor Swift fans raced to buy tickets for her upcoming “Eras” tour. Ticketmaster’s […]
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Why Taylor Swift, Bruce Springsteen tickets will be more expensive and tougher to get
Terry Wyatt | Getty Images Entertainment | Getty Images Hundreds of thousands of Taylor Swift fans will closely be checking their phones Monday night, waiting to see if they’ve been chosen by Ticketmaster’s Verified Fan system to buy tickets to the pop star and singer-songwriter’s upcoming stadium tour. When those tickets go on sale later […]
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How Spotify stayed No. 1 in streaming audio even with Apple, YouTube and Amazon aiming for it
Onur Dogman | LightRocket | Getty Pictures In this weekly sequence, CNBC requires a glance at corporations that made the inaugural Disruptor 50 list, 10 a long time later on. Spotify, the moment a Swedish startup tasked with tackling audio piracy troubles, is now the most popular audio streaming subscription service in the planet. Initial […]
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The K-pop ETF has not been doing properly, but its creator suggests Korean information is at ‘inflection point’
K-pop lady group BlackPink executed at The Late Late Clearly show with James Corden airing Thursday, April 18, 2019. (Photo by Terence Patrick/CBS via Getty Images) Cbs Photo Archive | Cbs | Getty Photos The creator at the rear of the new exchange-traded fund aimed at changing world wide fans of Korean material into an […]
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