Association Updates
NARM Welcome New Member: MediaNet
NARM welcomes to the music business community, MediaNet, a leading B2B service provider that supplies premium digital content to a network of customers through its advanced MN Open platform. More...
Donio Preps Local Music Scene For NARM’s Return To Chicago
NARM President Jim Donio had the chance to speak with the Chicago Music Commission about NARM and, specifically, the NARM/A2IM Music Business Crash Course that will take place on May 14-15 at the Hilton Chicago. Take a listen ... More...
NARM Welcomes New Member: Zed
NARM welcomes to the music business community, Zed, a mobile music distribution company that is equipped with a comprehensive catalog of major and independent labeled content for the development and distribution of real music ringtones, wallpapers and voicemail personalization. More...
Nielsen To Present March 25 Webinar
Nielsen's David Bakula will present the latest market data during the March 25 webinar. The presentation will focus on sales summaries; trends in strata, format, genre and current versus catalog; new release album counts; and digital versus physical share. The webinar is free to members and registration is now open. More...
Donio Touts Chicago Convention With Local Media
NARM President Jim Donio touts the 2010 Convention, which will be held May 15-17 at the Chicago Hilton, with local media. Take a listen to his interview with Chicago Media Guide's Cara Carriveau. More...
Tom Silverman To Receive 2010 Independent Spirit Award
NARM announces that Tom Silverman, the founder, chairman and CEO of Tommy Boy Entertainment, will be honored with the organization’s Independent Spirit Award at the Annual NARM Convention in Chicago on Monday, May 17. The NARM Independent Spirit Award was established in 2009 to recognize a music industry executive who embodies the spirit of new thinking, entrepreneurship and success in the industry. More...
Second NARM Salon Packs New York Venue
NARM held its second Salon Series event before a packed room at the Soho House NY on February 22. A panel of experts discussed the topic of streamlining digital licensing. Standardization of digital licensing was a key point during the discussion and NARM will be planning future events to advance this topic forward. The Salon agenda also included a research conversation between Wired's Eliot Van Buskirk and Forrester's Sonal Gandhi, who took a close look at key offerings consumers are looking for and which might encourage purchase behavior. The program was videotaped and is available. More...
NARM Mourns Passing Of Longtime Leader Mickey Granberg
NARM is extremely saddened to announce that its esteemed former chief staff executive Mickey Granberg passed away on Wednesday evening, February 17 at her home in South Florida. She was 83. Mickey often said that her life and NARM’s were inextricably linked. All told, she devoted nearly 40 years of service to the organization. More...
Leiber and Stoller To Receive NARM Outstanding Achievement Award
NARM announces that legendary songwriting duo Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller will receive the 2010 Outstanding Achievement Award for Musical Collaboration. They will be honored on Mon., May 17, in Chicago, during NARM's Annual Convention. The duo's works span six decades, hit the charts in the U.S. or the U.K. 76 times, and include Elvis Presley's "Hound Dog" and "Jailhouse Rock." More...
NARM Names Universal Music’s Jim Urie As 2010 Presidential Award Recipient
NARM announced today that it will honor music industry leader Jim Urie with the organization’s coveted Presidential Award for Sustained Executive Achievement. Mr. Urie is the President and CEO of Universal Music Group Distribution (UMGD), a division of Universal Music Group, which is the world’s largest music company. He will receive the Award at the 2010 NARM Convention in Chicago in May. More...
Enter To Win A NARM Performance Slot
Here’s your chance to present your act and music at the foremost music business Convention of the year to influential music labels, distributors and retailers, who together account for almost 90% of the music sold in the U.S. marketplace. Many of the music industry’s superstars got their start by performing on the NARM stage. Click for contest rules and entry form. More...
NARM Adds New Features To Web Site
We are happy to announce that we just added a new Digital section to the NARM web site as well as a listing of new member profiles. Under Digital you'll find all you need to know about the newly launched NARM Digital Think Tank as well as the Mobile Applications Workgroup. New Member Profiles are featured in the rotating gallery as well as collected under the Membership section of the site. Be sure to check out this growing list of new members. You never know, you just may find a new trading partner. Look for new services to be added to the web site in the coming year. More...
NARM Welcomes New Member: WALKING SHADOWS
NARM welcomes to the music business community, WALKING SHADOWS, an entertainment company that is in the primary business of producing, publishing, licensing and distributing motion picture products, as well as providing related motion picture services. More...
NARM Welcomes New Member: MXP4
NARM welcomes to the music business community, MXP4, whose belief is that people should not just play music, but play with it, share it and make it part of their world. MXP4 is a digital audio solution that lets fans interact and listen to music in a new way. The company has developed a suite of creative tools for artists and producers to deliver a new interactive listening. More...
NARM Welcomes New Member: AVA Records Corp.
NARM welcomes to the music business community, AVA Records Corp., an international independent record label with 45 years experience in the Latin music market. More...
NARM Welcomes New Member: Consolidated Independent
NARM welcomes to the music business community, Consolidated Independent (CI), a digital media distribution company that provides an open, secure, and reliable platform which enables everyone to enjoy the same scale and reach in the marketplace as the largest players. More...
NARM Welcomes New Member: Soforte Entertainment Distribution
NARM welcomes to the music business community, Soforte Entertainment Distribution, Nigeria's first automated distribution company and largest retail and wholesale chain, covering every major cities in Nigeria. SED's soon-to-be-released automated distribution system will capture and track movement and sales of music and movie product. They are also excited to introduce the first and largest mobile payment and direct delivery service in the history of Africa. More...
NARM Welcomes New Member: Next Big Sound
NARM welcomes to the music business community, Next Big Sound, which provides actionable intelligence for the music industry through the tracking of plays, views, fans, comments, mentions, and other key metrics for 493,049 artists across major web properties like Facebook, MySpace, Last.fm, Twitter, and more. The company joined NARM following the launch of the Association's Digital Think Tank and feels that this group can lead the music industry into the digital world. More...
President’s Message: Revitalizing “Give The Gift Of Music”
Some 30 years after NARM and the industry mounted the iconic marketing campaign designed to boost sales, devoted fans around the world continue to “Give the Gift of Music” to friends and family for special occasions and holidays. In fact, I'd say that music is the best present -- with a future -- compared with many other forms of entertainment, and regardless of the holiday, occasion, format or delivery method. Just think of how many times over a span of days, weeks, months, and years someone enjoys music they love, and may have received or chosen as a gift. More...
December 3 Online Seminar To Highlight “The Ultra Fan”
NARM and SoundThinkingNY are teaming up to bring you a closer look at the voraciously viral, the digitally dominating, the massively multi-platform-oriented, the consumed collectors ... THE ULTRA FAN! Join us for key highlights from FanboyFAQ, an in-depth quantitative study of 5,200 fans. Find out how these Ultra Fans make or break movies, TV series, games, music and books, and how they become the most influential drivers of new media, new platforms, new devices and hardware. More...
