The $15 Million DJ

The $15 Million DJ

December 1st, 2012  |  Published in Blog

FEATURED STORY

Forbes magazine, 08.20.12
The $15 Million DJ
24-year-old Skrillex is making a mint on electronic music — and helping to create a new model for the music industry in the process.

 

OTHER STORIES ON MISCELLANEOUS TOPICS

Around The World in 20 Days: three weeks, twelve countries, and highlights including a Jay-Z concert in Germany, a ski trip in Dubai and a glimpse of the future in China. Here are my blog entries from abroad in the summer of 2010.

Around the World: Part I
In which Zack consumes a Guinness breakfast and encounters technical difficulties.

Around the World: Part II
In which Zack shatters dreams in Innsbruck and sees Plastic People in Prague.

Around the World: Part III
In which Zack becomes aware of German singer Lena and eats questionable meat.

Around the World: Part IV
In which Zack travels to Berlin and debunks the myth of the jelly doughnut.

Around the World: Part V
In which Zack visits Dubai, Abu Dhabi, and, sort of accidentally, Oman.

Around the World: Part VI
In which Zack journeys to Hong Kong, Macau, and The Real China before heading home to New York.

But wait, there’s bonus material! Here are a few of the articles I wrote about my travels:

Luxist.com, 08.05.10
A Visit to Chigny-Les-Roses
Ever wonder about the origin of those gold bottles that keep popping up in Jay-Z’s videos? This is it.

Luxist.com, 07.09.10
A Bubbly Hideaway
L’Assiette Champenoise — the first stop on my trip through Europe.

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Zack O'Malley Greenburg is a Forbes senior editor and author of the Jay-Z biography Empire State of Mind. He's now writing his second book, Michael Jackson, Inc, for Simon & Schuster. Zack pens The Beat Report at Forbes, where he has worked for the past five years, profiling subjects from Justin Bieber to Jon Bon Jovi. Zack has also written for the Washington Post, Sports Illustrated, Vibe and McSweeney's; guest-lectured at Yale, Harvard and Georgetown; and appeared as a source for BBC, MTV, E! and CNN. Full bio here.


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Zack has written over 500 articles for Forbes, Forbes Asia and Forbes.com; his stories on music, business, travel and sports have taken him from the back rooms of New York’s Apollo Theater to the rail yards of Omaha to the diamond mines of Sierra Leone--and, most terrifying of all, the bleachers of Fenway Park. Here are some of his subjects, and links to the resulting stories:

50 Cent | Afrika Bambaataa | Alicia Keys | Akon | Ben Horowitz (of Andreessen Horowitz) | Bill Gates (sort of) | Birdman | B.o.B | Bon Jovi | Branson B | Bruno Mars | Chuck Leavell (of The Rolling Stones) | David Archuleta | David Banner | Delta Rae | DJ Pauly D | Dr. Ruth | Ed Sheeran | Electronic Cash Kings | Fab 5 Freddy | Flo Rida | Hip-Hop Cash Kings | The Jacksons | Jay-Z | Justin Bieber | Kevin Liles | L'Arc-En-Ciel | Lil Jon | LL Cool J | Lyor Cohen | Ludacris | Mac Miller | Mark Teixeira | Mr. T | Music's 30 Under 30 | Nas | Natasha Bedingfield | Noel Lee (of Monster Cable) | Pharrell Williams | Red Dillard | Richard Branson | Russell Simmons | Scooter Braun | Sean Paul | Skrillex | Slash | Steve Stoute | Steve Wozniak | Swizz Beatz | T.I. | Timbaland | Wale | Wiz Khalifa

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