Guardian reports that Phil Maymin, a New York University professor of finance, has studied Billboard’s Hot 100 lists for decades and found that songs with low beat variance (that is, a steady, regular beat) have an inverse correlation with American stock market volatility. The study suggests that Beyoncé’s number one hit “Single Ladies (Put a … Read more
Academy Award-winning songwriter Joseph Brooks is suspected in five cases of alleged sexual assault. New York Daily News reports Brooks, 70, has been accused of luring aspiring models and actresses to his New York apartment with postings on Craigslist. Brooks directed “You Light Up My Life,” and later wrote a hit song by the same … Read more
President-Elect Barack Obama has appointed the RIAA’s top lawyer to be associate attorney general. The pick, Tom Perrelli, is infamous in the realm of entertainment law, having represented the RIAA against file sharers; Perrelli has also combatted Charter Communications in the hopes of forcing them “to give up the names of 93 file-trading subscribers,” CNET … Read more