Hannah Montana

Hannah Montana’s Miley Cyrus Extends Tour Through January

Authored by Scott Goldberg on December 12, 2007 - 2:05pm.

Miley Cyrus’s “Best of Both Worlds” tour, one of the best selling ever, has added 14 dates in January. The 15-year-old star of Disney’s TV hit Hannah Montana will begin selling tickets to the new shows on Saturday. Detroit will host the first show on January 11th and Miami will host the last on January 31st.

Hannah Montana & Britney Spears to Share Thanksgiving?

Authored by Scott Goldberg on November 19, 2007 - 1:39am.
Billy Ray Cyrus made his wish to host Britney Spears for Thanksgiving known last week to In Touch magazine, reaching out to the troubled pop star as countless celebrities have done in recent weeks.  "We love her. We would love to be there for you and we care about you," Cyrus said.  "Miley is a big fan and she wants to reach out, too. We want her to know that's it's never too late to make things right."

 

Fan Sues Hannah Montana’s Miley Cyrus for Ticket Deception

Authored by Scott Goldberg on November 13, 2007 - 8:39am.
Miley Cyrus singingWith the ticket mess surrounding Miley Cyrus’s 54-show “Best of Both Worlds” tour, it was only a matter of time for a lawsuit to surface.  Kerry Inman of Pennsville, New Jersey claims she paid $29.95 to join Cyrus’s official website, MileyWorld.com, in order to benefit from the site’s claim that members would have seats made available to them before the general public, TMZ reports.

Miley Cyrus Live in St. Louis

Authored by dmw on October 31, 2007 - 5:24pm.

Fed Reserve Bank Addresses Hannah Montana Scalping Issue

Authored by Scott Goldberg on October 31, 2007 - 5:22pm.
Miley Cyrus Performing LiveLast week on the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond’s website, economist Doug Campbell discussed the Hannah Montana ticket issue.  Seats with a face value of $26 - $56 dollars have gone for several multiples of that on resale websites, inciting a furor among fans and industry observers.  A woman in Greensboro, North Carolina sued earlier this month over the $1,050 she paid a reseller for four seats.

Buzz Watch: Hannah Montana Most Searched for Halloween Costume

Authored by Jay Baage on October 25, 2007 - 9:26pm.
Want to know what pop culture phenomenon are hot? Go to a Halloween party this year and take a close look at what people are wearing. This year I bet you’ll see a lot of Hannah Montana and Pirate costumes, since they are the most popular “Halloween costume” search terms in the U. S., according to Hitwise, the online competitive intelligence service. A newcomer costume people are looking for online is “Master Chief”, riding on the back of Microsoft Xbox’s  blockbuster videogame “Halo 3”.    

Disney Ships Two Music-Themed "Hannah Montana" Video Games

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on October 23, 2007 - 2:00pm.

Burbank, Calif. - Disney Interactive Studios on Tuesday announced the release of two new music-themed titles featuring TV and recording star Hannah Montana. "Hannah Montana: Music Jam" for Nintendo DS will see players using the DS stylus and touch-screen to trigger instrument samples, and form virtual bands via wireless connections. "Hannah Montana: Spotlight World Tour" for the Nintendo Wii will let gamers use the Wii Remote and Nunchuk controllers to dance alongside Hannah to over 15 of her songs.

Disney to Screen Hannah Montana Digital 3D Concert in Theaters

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on October 18, 2007 - 1:07pm.

Burbank, Calif. - Disney said on Thursday that it will host digital 3D screenings of a concert from its "Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert Tour" in movie theaters in the U.S. and Canada in February, expanding to several international markets in the spring of 2008. The concert film will be presented in the Disney Digital 3D format during its week-long run.

Miley Cyrus Tour Adds Seats to Accommodate Demand

Authored by Scott Goldberg on October 11, 2007 - 4:42pm.
Miley Cyrus's Tour is Adding SeatsHannah Montana’s Miley Cyrus, whose “Best of Both Worlds” tour begins October 18th, appeared on Ellen today and said seats were being added to accommodate the huge demand and combat scalpers.  Industry observers have debated whether the tour’s popularity is genuine or the device of scalping agencies buying up tickets to create artificial demand.

Bob Lefsetz: Hannah Montana Ain’t That Big

Authored by Scott Goldberg on October 8, 2007 - 11:17am.
Hannah Montana is Currently Playing a Sold Out 54-Show TourIn a post from The Lefsetz Letter today, Bob discusses the artificial hype surrounding Hannah Montana and the Miley Cyrus 54-show concert tour.  He argues that the ticket brokers have changed the game, now creating a fake shortage of tickets that raises the value of available seats on broker sites. Remember, online brokers like StubHub make money on the price of the sale, so the more a ticket goes for, the more they get paid; and hence, it would make sense for them to create artificially inflated prices.

Is Hannah Montana all hype and no substance?

Authored by dmw on October 8, 2007 - 11:12am.

Arkansas AG Looks into Hannah Montana Ticket Scalping

Authored by Scott Goldberg on October 4, 2007 - 7:03am.
Miley Cyrus is putting on one of the most successful tours of all timeArkansas - Five ticket-sales sites could be in violation of state ticket-scalping laws pertaining to the sale of seats for Miley Cyrus concerts, reports the Associated Press.  Arkansas Attorney General Dustin McDaniel has demanded to see documents from the sites.  He also believes fake tickets are being listed on sites to gauge value.  One ticket for a Charlotte, North Carolina show was scalped for $2,565.

Hannah Montana’s Miley Cyrus is 2007’s Biggest Live Act

Authored by Scott Goldberg on October 1, 2007 - 12:45pm.
Miley Cyrus is putting on one of the most successful tours of all timePrior to reading the headline, if you had one guess which band or artist is 2007’s most popular, who would it be?  Justin Timberlake?  The Police?  It’s Miley Cyrus, the 14-year-old star of Disney’s Hannah Montana.  According to the AP, she has sold out her entire 54-show tour, and some tickets are going for five times the face value (The Spice Girls didn’t do too bad on their upcoming tour either, as you can see here).

High School Musical Dominates Over Halo 3 in the Year of the Downloads

Authored by Robin Goad on October 1, 2007 - 4:57am.

Following Friday's post on the top gadgets in the run up to Christmas, today I reveal the most searched for entertainment products. The most noticable trend is the massive increase in searches for entertainment downloads, which currently outstrip searches for CDs by a factor of 27 and DVDs by a factor of 13. Searches for downloads accounted for 35% of searches for entertainment products, almost double the amount for books, and five times more than games.

Disney’s High School Musical franchise tops the list of entertainment products, followed by searches for the Halo 3 and Fifa 2008. Hip hop superstar Kanye West is the most popular musician, receiving over three times as many searches as his rival 50 Cent

“Hannah Montana” Actor Billy Ray Cyrus Debuts Disney Records Album

Authored by dmw on August 3, 2007 - 9:40am.

Burbank – Singer/songwriter and star of the Disney Channel series “Hannah Montana,” Billy Ray Cyrus, cracked the Top 3 on Billboard’s Top Country Album chart with his Walt Disney Records album, Home At Last, scanning 28,000 units for the week ending 7/29/07.

Analysis: Bleak Prospects for Disney Music Label’s New CD Format CDVU+

Authored by Jay Baage on July 19, 2007 - 2:06am.
Disney’s music label Hollywood Records on Wednesday unveiled a new CD format with extra features. The company hopes that the digital magazine extras, song lyrics, band photos and other extras to boost fan loyalty will encourage compact-disc purchases in an attempt to reverse declining CD sales. But it is not the first time extra features have been introduced in order to halt the decline of a dying format and the results of those attempts have not been encouraging.

Disney Announces Fall Slate of Branded Video Game Titles

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on June 14, 2007 - 3:40pm.

Burbank, Calif. - Disney Interactive Studios on Thursday announced its lineup of six Disney Channel series-themed games it plans to release in the fall, which will include titles based on its "High School Musical," "Hannah Montana," "The Cheetah Girls," "The Suite Life of Zack & Cody" properties. The announcement comes in the same week the company said it plans to triple its investment in video game development.

Disney Web Concert Series Features Hannah Montana, "High School Musical"

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on March 12, 2007 - 3:54pm.

North Hollywood, Calif. - Disney Online announced on Monday the launch of a virtual concert series that will feature Walt Disney Records artists and screen on Disney Xtreme Digital, a social network on Disney.com. The three-month "D*Concert: Disney Channel Concert Series" will feature Disney artists including Hannah Montana, The Cheetah Girls and the cast of "High School Musical." In addition to the online concerts, Disney will offer exclusive concert badges, chat rooms and D*Concert games.