• Latin label Urban Box Office plans to record a Spanish-language version of the U.S. national anthem to show support of migrants while Congress ponders immigration reform. Artists to appear on the track will be, among others, Ivy Queen, Gloria Trevi and Tito El Bambino. (Chicago Sun-Times)

• The NY Times calls music publishing "music's hottest star." (NY Times)

• Universal Music Group's Larry Kenswil, President of Universal's eLabs unit, credits the growth in gift cards for the growth in digital downloads. "t's still a very small percentage of people that are downloading digital music, but gift cards are helping to introduce digital to those people who haven't previously downloaded music." (Marketwatch)

• Congress is preparing to change to Digital Millennium Copyright Act -- and expand it, not scale it back. (News.com)

• Last week it was an article on collaborations between rock/pop and country stars. This week it's an article about "troubling couplings" such as The Ordinary Boys and Lady Sovererign. "It's the opportunistic couplings, where one party is clearly hoping that a bit of cool will rub off, that are both funny and sad." (The Guardian)