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MTV Picks Up Puppet Series: MTV has picked up “Fur TV,” an adult comedy series about a group of foulmouthed, sex-mad puppets, made by Warp Films, the U.K. shingle behind BAFTA-winning feature “This Is England.” This is more or less a spin off of Beavis and Butthead, but this time involving puppets. How exciting! Watch the silly segment here.

Mariah Makes History: Mariah Carey scores her 18th No. 1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 this week with “Touch My Body”. Download sales of 286,000 units, according to Nielsen SoundScan, top the previous record set by Rihanna’s “Umbrella,” which shifted 277,000 last June.

Myspace Finally Forms Music Venture with Major Music Labels: MySpace finally formed an online music venture with three major recording companies in a challenge to Apple. MySpace Music will offer free music and video streaming supported by advertising, paid-for MP3 downloads, ringtones for cell phones, concert ticket sales and merchandise. MySpace Music is seen as a potential rival to iTunes, which takes more than 70 percent of digital download sales.

New Music Streams: Chicago metal act Disturbed is streaming new songs on their myspace including Inside the Fire and Perfect Insanity. The new record will be titled Indestructible and will be released through Reprise Records.

Recommended Listening: Choices and Crowded Streets by Winter Ransom

Trends: Paramore has spawned a throng of female fronted bands. Take Florida band Blake for instance who will be performing a series of Warped Tour dates. Is there room for two? Probably not!

Policing Internet ‘not ISP’s job’: The head of one of Britain’s biggest internet providers has criticised the music industry for demanding that he act against pirates. The BPI, asked internet service providers to disconnect people who ignore requests to stop sharing music. If the ISP’s do not help with the fight against music piracy, then the government will bring in legislation to make them cooperate.

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Taylor Swift Leaves CAA for WMA: William Morris Agency has signed country singer-songwriter Taylor Swift for representation in all areas. “Her future is limitless. She is the kind of person that I think can clearly go for decades and decades,” Oswald said. “All of the God-given gifts and tools are there. She writes ’em, she sings ’em, and she backs it up from a very real place, which means what happens down the line is pretty much in her control.”

Signings: Fearless Records signs Eye Alaksa. Eye Alaska will be performing at Bamboozle on Saturday, April 5 at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater in Irvine, CA. Los Angeles based melodic pop-rock/new wave band War Tapes have signed to Sarathan Records which is distributed by Fontana/Universal. Vagrant Records has signed pop punk band School Boy Humor.

New Music: Streetside Symphony has posted some new tracks on their myspace. Our favorite track is Sundowner.

Perez Hilton Boycotts Sony BMG – Who Cares? We were going to discuss this topic briefly but Hypebot stepped up to the plate first, so we will quote them.

Popular celebrity blogger Perez Hilton is boycotting SonyBMG acts because the label is suing him over the use of song streams on his site. Sony BMG’s Zomba and Jive labels, are suing Hilton for streaming several songs that turned out to be by Britney Spears. Does Hilton really think that any of these acts are going to sell less music because he doesn’t write about them? And when Whitney Houston finally gives birth to Justin Timberlake’s love child; how long will his little SonyBMG news blackout last?

Yahoo Music exec leaves for start-up: Ian Rogers, vice president of video and media applications at Yahoo, is leaving the company to launch a start-up. His new company, Topspin Media, is a venture-funded start-up that aims to help independent artists make a living. The company will focus on web applications that enable distribution and marketing of digital content.

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Apple has climbed to the top of the charts, surpassing Wal-Mart for the first time ever, according to an NPD MusicWatch Survey via Ars Technica. Apple already passed Best Buy to become the number two retailer in the the US in December. This also depicts a clear changing music landscape, technology has allowed consumers to cherry pick tracks rather than purchasing full albums. Paid downloads accounted for almost 30 percent of all music sold in January, a number that would have been unthinkable just a few short years ago.

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Jay-Z is reportedly on the verge of signing one of the most lucrative music contracts ever inked. The expensive deal will encompass his own entertainment venture, as well as recordings and tours for the next decade.

Live Nation is expected to fund his new start-up venture which will include a label, music publishing, and talent consulting and managing. The New York Times reports industry sources as saying the company will contribute $5 million a year in overhead for five years, with another $25 million available to finance Jay-Z’s acquisitions or investments.

I’ve turned into the Rolling Stones of hip-hop,” Jay-Z said in a recent telephone interview.

Executives at major record labels have privately portrayed Live Nation’s artist deals as overly expensive retirement packages for stars past their prime. Live Nation has only invested in older acts who are closer to exiting the business rather than entering. This is just another scenario of Live Nation handing out hefty paychecks to older artists hoping to build a world wide presence and total value perception.

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Festival Fatigue: Organizers are claiming that several festivals this year are likely to flop. The festivals have become extremely redundant with similar line-ups and there are a few big name acts spread to thinly over too many stages. Some critics claim that a backlash has been observed against corporate branding.

“We did a lot of research and it became clear that people are a little bit pissed off with festivals says Vince Powers. The whole thing has just become more and more about marketing and branding and I just felt people were getting short-changed. We want to get back to basics and do it for the music. We want to make it inclusive rather than exclusive.” He said at his event there would be none of the backstage or corporate hospitality areas that had proliferated elsewhere.

Google Geek to Join EMI: Douglas Merrill, one of Google top engineers will head over to EMI to help them figure out how to turn around its struggling business. He is the the third executive to depart from Google this month. Facebook hired Google executive Sheryl Sandberg to be its operating chief and also hired Google’s director of social media, Ethan Beard.

Top Current Albums:

Panic At The Disco – Pretty Odd – (TW) 139,000
Counting Crows – Saturday Nights – (TW) 107,000
Alicia Keys – As I Am – (TW) 23,000 (Total) 3,340,000
Jordin Sparks – Jordin Sparks – (TW) 17,000 (Total) 612,000
Paramore – Riot! – (TW) 12,000 (Total) 821,000
Sheryl Crow – Detours – (TW) 12,800 (Total) 270,000

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Clive on Cloud 9: Music mogul Clive Davis is bragging to Page Six about his latest hit artist, Leona Lewis. Davis said of the music sensation, who is the first Brit girl to top the Billboard 100 in 21 years, “Leona is a true original. This album might be the biggest new album of the year.”

Clive gets to rub his new pet project in all of our faces. That’s fine. Congratulations!

New Music: Really digging the new Katy Perry track I Kissed a Girl. It definitely has an 80’s vibe and it’s much stronger than Ashlee Simpson debut track. My gosh, it wasn’t produced by Timbaland. Her debut record will be released this Spring through Capitol Records.

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