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The publication Music Trades reports that the 1855 song Listen To The Mocking Bird by Septimus Winner has earned over $100,000 in royalties. Winner had sold the rights to the song for $5.
The Brunswick-Balke-Collender Company purchases Vocalion Records from the Aeolian Company of New York City, USA. A Vocalion popular record is, at this time, priced at 75 cents per 10-inch disc, as are popular records on Victor, Brunswick, Columbia and OKeh.
Bill Cox records NRA Blues for Conqueror Records in the USA. The song is inspired by The National Industrial Recovery Act, intended to assist America's recovery from the Great Depression, being signed into law in the USA. "History will probably record the National Industrial Recovery Act as the most important and far-reaching legislation ever enacted by Congress," declared US President Franklin D, Roosevelt. Mr. Cox and many others remained unimpressed.
Judy Garland's new contract with MGM is filed in The Superior Court, Los Angeles, California, USA. Because she is no longer a minor, her salary is increased from $600 a week to $2000.
Capitol Records of Los Angeles, California, USA, issues its first stock dividend - 20 cents.
Mario Lanza records The Best Things In Life Are Free, Temptation and Trees in Radio Recorders Studio, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA. The tracks will be used in his radio series The Mario lanza Show.
Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis are fined $1,000 in their absence by The American Guild Of Variety Artists in Miami Beach, Florida, USA, for having made a non-authorised appearance at Miami's Vagabonds Club six months earlier.
Chuck Berry is found guilty in United States District Court, St Louis, Missouri, USA, of violating the Mann Act by transporting a 14-year-old Indian girl from El Paso, Texas, to St. Louis for immoral purposes. This is Berry's second conviction on the same charge. He was previously given five years in prison and fined $5000, but the US Court of Appeals remanded that sentence after finding that Judge George H. Moore disparaged the defendant by asking repeated questions about race in the trial. On the same day, Berry plays at Georgia Tech, Athens, Georgia, USA.
Martha Raye is the musical guest on popular tv show Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall, in New York City, USA. Raye is paid $7,500 for her appearance.
The Beatles play at the Thistle Cafe, West Derby, ten miles from Liverpool, UK, collecting a fee of £18.
The Kingston Trio enter the Billboard Singles Chart in the USA with Greenback Dollar, written by Hoyt Axton. It will peak at No21.
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Greenback Dollar by The Kingston Trio peaks at No21 on Billboard magazine's pop singles chart in the USA.
The Rolling Stones discover that their co-founder/guitarist Brian Jones is earning more than the others in the group. Green Gables bookshop in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA, sends an invoice in the amount of $110.00 to Elvis Presley in respect of Books and materials plus research service. The invoice is sent to Presley c/o Paramount Pictures, Hollywood.
The Kinks latest single, Sunny Afternoon, enters the Billboard Top 40 Singles Chart in the USA, where it will peak at No14.
Bill Graham of The Fillmore Auditorium, San Francisco, California, USA, writes to Chris Wright of Chrysalis Records in London, England, UK, Europe, asking for the price and availablity of Ten Years After for bookings at The Fillmore.
Paul McCartney announces in a London Evening Standard article that The Beatles now have all the money they will ever need.
It is reported that The Beach Boys are suing Capitol Records for $2m worth of unpaid royalties and producer's fees.
The Rolling Stones begin a $29m legal suit against former manager Allen Klein, claiming that he had failed to properly represent the band’s interests.
Michael Jackson and CBS Songs pay $40m to acquire the ATV Music catalogue, which includes most of the songs written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney of The Beatles. 
Cher begins her Heart Of Stone tour at The Coca-Cola Starplex Amphitheatre, Dallas, Texas, USA. It will run for eight months and will gross over $40m.
Madonna's 1969 Mercedes convertible is sold for $56,350 at a rock memorabilia auction at Sotheby's in New York City, USA. 
The Rolling Stones announce that a staggering $313m was taken in ticket sales alone by their Voodoo Lounge tour, topping their 1989 Steel Wheels record of $290m (£185m).The Rolling Stones announce that a staggering $313m was taken in ticket sales alone by their Voodoo Lounge tour, topping their 1989 Steel Wheels record of $290m [£185m].
Tupac Shakur is released from Clinton Correctional Facility, New York State, USA, on $1.4m bail, posted by Suge Knight. In return Tupac signs a three-album deal with Knight's Death Row Records.It is reported that Madonna has visited the £9m Ashcombe House on Cranbourne Chase in Wiltshire, UK, several times, with a view
to buying it.
It is reported that rapper Snoop Dogg is being sued for $25m by Emmy Award winning make-up artist Kylie Bell, who claims she was raped by Dogg and others in his entourage, in his dressing room backstage at the Jimmy Kimmel Show in January 2003.
A Maton MS500 Mastersound guitar, owned by George Harrison of The Beatles in the early 1960s, is sold at auction for £115,000 by Cooper Owen's Music Legends in London, UK. A shirt once owned by John Lennon is also auctioned.
It is revealed that Ozzy Osbourne is suing his former Black Sabbath bandmate Tony Iommi to reclaim a stake in the Black Sabbath trademark afterwhat he describes as "years of trying to resolve the issue amicably".The Regimental Band Of The Coldstream Guards signs a £1m record deal with Universal Music, at Horse Guards Parade in Whitehall, London, UK, just before the daily ritual of the Changing of the Guard, one of the band's main ceremonial duties. The deal makes the band label-mates with Eminem and Amy Winehouse.
It is reported that Sheryl Crow has sold her music publishing catalog for around $10m to the Dublin, Ireland-based First State Media Group, an investor in publishing assets.
A lock of Elvis Presley's hair is sold at an auction by Henry Aldridge and Son in Devizes, Wiltshire, England, UK, Europe, for £1055.00
Prince settles a $2.3m lawsuit over a canceled concert at Croke Park, Dublin, Ireland, Europe, out of court. Concert promotions company MCD had been seeking compensation for financial loss and damage to their commercial reputation.
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Gene Simmons of Kiss files a lawsuit in the Superior Court Of
California, Los Angeles, California, USA, against make-up artist
Victoria Jackson who has threatened him with a legal action for sexual harassment unless he pays her $185,000.
American Idol winner Carrie Underwood marries ice hockey player Mike Fisher at The Ritz Carlton Reynolds Plantation, Greensboro, Georgia, USA. 200 guests attend the wedding which is estimated to have cost $500,000.
Roger Waters and David Gilmour of Pink Floyd perform together unexpectedly at a charity gig in Kidlington, Oxfordshire, England, UK, in support of the HOPING Foundation. They perform three Pink Floyd songs (Wish You Were Here, Comfortably Numb and Another Brick In The Wall (Part Two), plus a cover of To Know Him Is To Love Him by The Teddy Bears. The event raises £350,000.
At Highbury Corner Magistrates Court, London, England, UK, Europe, George Michael is jailed for eight weeks for crashing his car while under the influence of cannabis. He is also fined £1,250 and given a five-year driving ban.
At Sotheby's Auction House, New York City, USA, Bob Dylan's handwritten lyric for his song The Times they Are A-Changin' sells for $422,500 to collector and hedge-fund trader Adam Sender.
it is announced that Madonna has signed a new $3m deal to release her next three albums through Interscope Records, in collaboration with Live Nation.
It is reported that Amy Winehouse's North London, UK, residence is being sold by her father Mitch for £2.7m. The house is listed on an estate agency's website, described as a 'substantial and impressive three double bedroom, three reception room semi-detached period villa with well-proportioned private gardens'.
Lauryn Hill pleads guilty in court in New Jersey, USA, to charges of evading federal taxes on $1.8m earned between 2005 and 2007. The singer faces a maximum one-year sentence for each of the three counts.Forbes magazine publishes its annual list of The Top-Earning Women in Music, revealing that Britney Spears has returned to the No1 slot in 2012 with earnings of $64m, with Taylor Swift in second place on $57m and Rihanna lying in third with $53m.
Figures released by performance royalty collection body PRS For Music reveal that revenue from live music events in the UK slumped by 14.2% in 2012.
It is announced that Dropkick Murphys have raised $65,000 in just fifteen hours for people affected by the recent Boston Marathon bombings by selling a new "For Boston" t-shirt on their website.
After having received threats of picketing from extremist homophobic religious group The Westboro Baptist Church, Panic! At The Disco play at Crossroads KC, Kansas City, Missouri, USA. Turning the situation to their advantage, the band decides to donate $20 to The Human Rights Campaign for every WBC member who turns up at the show. When only 13 picketers turn up, the band decides instead to donate $1000 to the Campaign.UK tabloid newspaper The Daily Mirror reports that Ed Sheeran is earning £63,000 per show on his current world tour, and has made £6.2m at the halfway point of tour, which is in support of his album x (pronounced Multiply).
UK record labels association the BPI announces that British music exports are now at their highest level since the turn of the millennium, with overseas revenues of £408.4m in 2017 representing a 12% rise on the previous year, taking the total generated since 2000 to over the £5bn mark.
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