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MUMFORD & SONS, FUN.,

JAY-Z, KANYE LEAD GRAMMY NOMINATIONS 2013

: The 55th annual

Grammys announced its nominees in Nashville on Wednesday night during a primetime concert special

, with fun., Mumford & Sons and Dan Auerbach — nominated with the Black Keys and solo in the Producer of the Year category — making a strong showing for the genre with

six nominations each.

Jay-Z, Kanye West and R&B breakthrough Frank Ocean also earned six nominations, with

Fun.’s and Ocean’s including the double coup of Album of the Year and Best New Artist.

Read all the nominees here.

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SCOOTER BRAUN SLAMS GRAMMYS OVER JUSTIN BIEBER SNUB:

Scooter Braun,

superstar manager and Schoolboy Records boss,

went on a

mini Twitter tirade

following Wednesday night’s Grammy Awards nominations announcement.

His No. 1 client, Justin Bieber, received no Grammy nominations.

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CONCORD MUSIC BEING SHOPPED TO PRIVATE-EQUITY FIRMS, NOT STRATEGIC SUITORS:

Concord Music Group is indeed up for sale, and

management is controlling the company’s sale

process so far. Consequently, Concord is being

shopped to private-equity firms and not to strategic suitors,

according to

strategic sources who

have confirmed they

haven’t been contacted

to partake in the auction.

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WIZ KHALIFA’S ALBUM SET FOR HIGHEST DEBUT ON BILLBOARD 200 CHART:

With

Alicia Keys’ “Girl on Fire”

topping the Billboard 200 album chart yesterday,

next week’s highest debut

looks to be from Wiz

Khalifa’s “O.N.I.F.C.” album

but it might not be No. 1

depending on how Taylor Swift and Rod Stewart fare.

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DAVE BRUBECK, JAZZ COMPOSER, PIANIST, DEAD AT 91.

Jazz composer and pianist Dave Brubeck, whose

pioneering style in pieces such as “Take Five”

caught listeners’ ears with

exotic, challenging rhythms,

has died. Brubeck had a

career

that

spanned almost all American jazz since World War II.

He formed The Dave Brubeck Quartet in 1951 and

helped define the swinging, smoky rhythms of 1950s and `60s club jazz.

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INSTAGRAM GIVES TWITTER THE BIRD

: From now on,

you may notice Instagram photos appearing oddly on Twitter.

This is

not a bug

. It’s because

Instagram doesn’t want to play nice with Twitter anymore.

In a post to Twitter’s status blog on Wednesday morning,

the company notified users that Instagram has disabled its integration with Twitter Cards,

the technology Twitter uses to display multimedia inside of tweets on the service.

“We want to direct users to where the content lives originally,” Instagram chief Kevin Systrom said at the LeWeb conference on Wednesday in Paris.”

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FIRST COUNTRY MUSIC FEST WITH MCGRAW, UNDERWOOD, GILL COMING O2, LONDON:

Tim McGraw, Carrie Underwood, Vince Gill, Darius Rucker, Little Big Town, Brantley Gilbert, Kristian Bush, LeAnn Rimes

and others to be announced shortly are

joining forces for the first time in London for C2C: Country to Country gig

at The O2 Arena. The

O2 and SJM Concerts in association with the Country Music Association

have established C2C, which

takes place Marc 16-17

with the

intention of it becoming an annual event.

Music Week

BRIT AWARDS ANNOUNCE CRITIC CHOICES:

Tom Odell, Laura Mvula and AlunaGeorge

were announced as the

three finalists for the UK’s Brit Awards.

Many are already certain that the hugely tipped singer/songwriter Tom Odell will be the one to take the honour.

Previous winners have included Adele, Florence + The Machine, Jessie J

and

Emeli Sande

–

and we all know how their stories turned out…

Gigwise

APPLE iRADIO STILL NOT CLOSE TO LABEL DEALS (REPORT).

According to a story by CNET’s Greg Sandoval,

the

major labels are no closer to a deal

for a streaming service

than they were

a few months ago.

According to the report, which cites music industry sources spoken to in recent weeks that

“the deal that Apple has offered for iRadio has left the major record companies –

– Sony Music Entertainment, Warner Music Group and Universal Music Group —

cold.”

The story concludes that “it will be a while before we see iRadio”

CNET

IS CHARLIE WALK GOING TO UNIVERSAL REPUBLIC? :

Reports in

both

Hits Daily Double

(yesterday)

and the New York Post

(today)

claim

that

former Epic Records President is in negotiations with Universal Republic Records, potentially to run their promotions department. Neither report received comment or confirmation

from the label or Walk himself.

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– Instagram Gives Twitter the Bird (AllThingsD)

– Apple To Fix Map Software By Rearranging Earth’s Geography

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