Kings favorite Maggie Chapman who we picked as a top 8 emerging artist has landed in the top 15 on the iTunes Singer/Songwriter chart. Her latest was produced by GRAMMY® winning producer Luke Laird (Kacey Musgraves) and she sparked the momentum with features and media support from outlets such as American Songwriter, Nylon Mag’s Daily Newsletter, Rolling Stone, USA Today and more. This past week, Daytrotter released a special acoustic studio session of Maggie Chapman available on their site. Check out Maggie’s full Kings artist profile.

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Kings favorite Eddie Gomez has released a video for the song Monsters. He will perform tonight at The Hotel Café at 8pm in Los Angeles. Eddie’s debut EP titled “No,” was produced by Captain Cuts (Grouplove, Smallpools). His first single “Someday” generated a buzz and has been getting radio play here in the U.S. as well as in Europe, and beat out TV On The Radio’s “Mercy”, Haim’s “The Wire”, and The Vaccines’ “Melody Calling” for the number one song position on 96.3 K-TWIN. Check out Eddie Gomez Kings profile here.
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Betty Who who we featured multiple times before signing with RCA has topped the Billboard Dance Club Songs chart this week with her track “Somebody Loves You” which will appear on her debut EP “The Movement”. Her EP will come out in April. Click on her Kings profile to view more information including past history.
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Lady Gaga’s “ARTPop” album last fall certainly didn’t give Universal Music Group any pop.

Gaga’s fourth-quarter flop helped cut Universal’s revenue in the period 9.3 percent, the company said in a report Tuesday.

The tough Japanese economy — which accounts for 25 percent of global music sales — also hurt Earnings before interest, tax and amortization, or Ebita, was off 11.1 percent, or 7.8 percent on a constant-currency basis. The tough quarter cut profits for the year by 2.9 percent, to $702 million (511 million euros). They were up 1.4 percent on a constant-currency basis, the company said. Full-year revenue rose 7.5 percent to $6.7 billion (4,886 million euros) or 12.8 percent when adjusted for currencies. For the year, Universal Music’s best-selling albums were from EMI’s Katy Perry and Interscope’s Eminem. Read more…