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WHO WAS WITH JENNI RIVERA ABOARD THE PLANE THAT CRASHED? There have been few details about the people who were aboard the private plane with Jenni Rivera taking them from Monterrey to Toluca in Mexico on Sunday. Rivera was traveling with her publicist Arturo Rivera (no relation), her stylist Jorge Sanchez, her makeup artist Jacob Yebale (whose name has been reported as Jacobo Llenares) and her attorney Mario Macias. (To read our expansive coverage on Jenni Rivera click here.)
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PEPSI'S FRANK COOPER ON BEYONCE'S $50 MILLION DEAL, BECOMING MORE LABEL-LIKE IN 2013: With Pepsi and Beyonce reuniting for a $50 million, multi-year branding deal and creative partnership that includes a Super Bowl halftime show, film and much more, what's next for one of the music industry's most powerful, active brand partners? According toFrank Cooper, PepsiCo's global chief marketing officer, more collaborations with all levels of the songwriting process are in the works, including expanded relationships with Nicki Minaj and One Direction, as well as having a "deeper role in the new music ecosystem." Billboard.biz
TRENT REZNOR REVEALS DETAILS ABOUT BEATS BY DRE'S NEW STREAMING SERVICE: Trent Reznor, who recently added the title of Chief Creative Officer for Beats Electronics Inc. to his resume, hinted that the company's forthcoming digital music service, code-named "Daisy," will create a recommendation platform in which "the Machine and the human would collide more intimately" when it launches next year.
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BUSINESS MATTERS: STREAMING SERVICES PAY FAR BETTER THAN TERRESTRIAL RADIO: Compared to terrestrial radio, by far the most popular music format, new streaming services pay out a much higher rate on a per-listener basis to record labels, according to calculations by David Touve of Washington and Lee University. According to his calculations, theper-listener value of a spin in the UK is $0.00012 -- just 1/36th a typical per-listen value($0.0042) paid by Spotify, 1/10th the rate ($0.0011) paid by pure-play webcasters such asPandora in the US and 1/18th the CRB-established webcaster rate ($0.0021) i n the US. Billboard.biz
LUKE BRYAN WINS BIG AT AMERICAN COUNTRY AWARDS: Luke Bryan was the top winner at the third annual American Country Music Awards Monday night (Dec. 10) at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas. Bryan took home nine awards, including Male Artist, Single and Music Video of the Year for "I Don't Want This Night to End," Album for "Tailgates and Tanlines" and Artist of the Year.
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NEIL PORTNOW'S DECADE: TEN YEARS OF GRAMMY LEADERSHIP (VIDEO): Neil Portnow has presided over the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences since December 2002. Under his stewardship the Recording Academy has thrived in the face of the many challenges. Here, Portnow reflects on his career, his mentors and "peeps," how hereinvigorated the organization, the difficulty of holding eight awards at once and much more.
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COLUMBIA RECORDS TO RELEASE SONGS FROM "12-12-12" BENEFIT: Columbia Records announced it will release music from the "12-12-12" benefit concert with a selection of 24 live tracks from the event available for pre-order on iTunes starting today. The concert'ssuperstar line-up, which performs tomorrow at Madison Square Garden, includes The Rolling Stones, Bruce Springsteen and Paul McCartney among many others. A physical album will bemade available as soon as possible. Net proceeds from the soundtrack will go to the Robin Hood Relief Fund for Hurricane Sandy, which is also the concert's charity beneficiary.
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AL WALSER WON'T BE STRIPPED OF HIS GRAMMY NOM: Speaking to MTV Bill Freimuth, NARAS VP of awards discussed the controversy surrounding little-known musicianAl Walser's Best Dance Music Recording nomination. "The bottom line is he got the votes," he said. "The [Grammy] ballot gets a really thorough audit by our auditors at Deloitte - and they do find block voting and other kinds of anomalies every year and they do end up disqualifying ballots because of that. But they found nothing really anomalous or wrong with the votes surrounding this nomination." Discussions are afoot, however, to change the nominations process. MTV News
TWITTER-INSTAGRAM'S BATTLE FOR SOCIAL-PHOTO SUPREMACY UNDERWAY: The day after Instagram disabled the ability for its photos to show up on Twitter, both companies rather conspicuously announced new features: Twitter launched photo editingfeatures and Instagram-like filters while Instagram has improved its camera, editing and a new filter. Wired CNET
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