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By Andy Gensler (@andygensler), New York
| 7:37 AM, October 03
Let the debates begin! In today's Morning Fix: Mumford & Sons shatter 2012's first week sales and streaming records; Apple's producing a mini iPad; Best Buy buyers consider purchase; RIAA targets foreign portals; "American Idol" judge Nicki Minaj on Mariah Carey: "I'm not putting up with her f**in highness..."; more.
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By Alex Pham, Los Angeles
| 12:00 AM, October 03
In a Digital Music Index report set to be released on Oct. 3, Musicmetric found that music file downloads using BitTorrent tend to increase in countries that don't have legal music streaming services such as Spotify. Among the top 10 countries with the fastest growing BitTorrent market share in the first half of 2012, only one had Spotify.
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By Keith Caulfield, Los Angeles
| 8:47 PM, October 02
It's official: Mumford & Sons' sophomore release, "Babel," has earned the biggest debut of any album this year in the United States. The set sold 600,000 in its first week, according to Nielsen SoundScan, and becomes the rock quartet's first No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart. It's also the first No. 1 for Glassnote Records. Click through for some amazing stats on the first week of "Babel."
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By Phil Gallo, Los Angeles
| 8:45 PM, October 02
Big Machine Records will release the music from ABC’s new series “Nashville,” starting with three songs after the show premieres Oct. 10. Big Machine Label Group CEO Scott Borchetta tells Billboard.biz he will wait to see the momentum of the show before announcing the release of a soundtrack album.
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By Glenn Peoples (@billboardglenn), Nashville
| 8:35 PM, October 02
Mumford & Sons’ sophomore release, “Babel,” blew past Spotify’s record for streams from an album in a single week. Spotify users in the U.S. streamed “around eight million listens” from the album in its first seven days of release, Spotify chief content officer Ken Parks tells Billboard.biz, shattering the previous record by a factor of three. Parks adds that one out of every 10 Spotify users in the U.S. listened to a track from “Babel” last week.
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By Nicole Powell, THR
| 6:24 PM, October 02
This year’s Electronic Daisy Carnival broke records by attracting over 320,000 dance music fans to Las Vegas. How much did that massive influx bring to the local economy? Some $207 million, according to promoter Insomniac.
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By Dan Rys, New York
| 12:35 PM, October 02
On Monday, Death Grips followed up on a promise they had made on Twitter by leaking their sophomore album No Love Deep Web, months before the released date planned by their label Epic Records. The group's site was soon shut down; the band blamed the label for the shutdown, but a rep for Epic told Billboard.biz that the label "has nothing to do with the issues on [Death Grips'] site."
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By Leila Cobo, Miami
| 12:20 PM, October 02
Eduardo O. Baptista Fernández, GM of indie publisher Grupo Editorial Edimusa in Mexico and Vander Music in the United States, died of a sudden heart on Sept. 29. He was 39.
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By Gary Trust, New York
| 12:19 PM, October 02
Happy birthday, Billboard's Nielsen BDS-based Pop Songs chart! Two decades in, the ranking continues to track the trends at, and reveal the realities of, U.S. mainstream top 40 radio. The chart's 20th anniversary also coincides with an unprecedented pure pop boom, as mainstream top 40 radio is playing more pure pop than ever before. Last year, in fact, the style accounted for a whopping 79% of the list's top 10s - the highest percentage in the chart's history
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By Hugh McIntyre, New York
| 12:00 PM, October 02
Songs Music Publishing has named Ron Perry President and Head of A&R.; CEO Matt Pincus, who Perry will report to, made the announcement yesterday. Perry had been head of A&R; title since the company was founded in 2004.
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By Billboard Staff
| 9:45 AM, October 02
Get ready music fans. Tomorrow, Oct. 3, looks to be one of the busiest chart days in recent memory as major new releases by some of pop music’s biggest acts -- including Mumford & Sons, PSY, Green Day, No Doubt, Rihanna, Ke$ha and Maroon 5 -- look to top the Billboard 200 and Hot 100 charts. And, depending on the outcome, we may see the year’s biggest album debut sales and, perhaps more importantly, a rather adorable Korean man perform topless.
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By Glenn Peoples (@billboardglenn), Nashville
| 9:24 AM, October 02
Music subscription service Rdio launched a program Tuesday that pays artists directly for the new subscribers they bring to the service. The program is a creative attempt to solve two of subscription service’s biggest problems: lack of subscribers and a reputation paying artists too little.
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By Billboard staff
| 9:00 AM, October 02
“Ross On Radio,” the long-running, influential column about radio programming trends and history, is returning to Billboard. Beginning on October 8, the column will appear every Monday in Billboard’s “Top 40 Update” free subscription e-mail newsletter, and will publish on Billboard.biz the following Wednesday.
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By Andy Gensler (@andygensler), New York
| 7:30 AM, October 02
Rise and shine! The warm delicious smell of music news is wafting your way. Today, Lucian Grainge's "call to action"; Apple's iRadio faces snags; Rdio's $10 social media bounty entices Snoop Lion; Japan's world worst copyright law?; Death Grips' leaks own album, website is shuttered & blames label; Chris Thile's $500K genius grant; way more
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By Keith Caulfield, Los Angeles
| 9:36 PM, October 01
Early Monday, One Direction commercially released its fast selling new single "Live While We're Young" to digital retailers, including iTunes. However, the U.S. iTunes Store was selling the track for just 99 cents -- instead of the expected $1.29. By the afternoon, the price had changed to $1.29.
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