Taylor Swift is still a young women, but she certainly understands the importance of giving back. Swift's contributions this year include a $4 million gift to the Country Music Hall of Fame and 14,000 books to the Nashville Public Library.

A new app called Pogoseat allows fans the chance to view open seats and purchase an upgrade in real time during games. The app allows teams to control the pricing and instantly considers a number of factors, including quality of opponent, current score, and time remaining in the game.

Concert industry giant Live Nation has already risen to the top of the music industry through their control over both concert promotion and ticket sales. On November 20, 2012, the company took a step toward dominating the internet as well with the launch of Live Nation's new website.

The website revamping was undertaken to increase site visits, and was spearheaded by Live Nation Labs co-founder/LiveNation.com GM Eric Garland, the former head of BigChampagne, a media tracking and tech company that was acquired by Live Nation in 2011. The revamp was focused on adding new elements to the site including social media links and mobile applications.

Ticketing giant Ticketmaster is facing new allegations that the company withheld tickets from the recent general on sale for a Nashville, TN Lady Gaga concert, only to list the tickets for sale with significant price mark-ups on secondary ticketing websites.

According to an investigation by Nashville's NewsChannel 5, five tickets for the concert were found for sale at above face value prices on secondary ticketing site StubHub. NewsChannel 5 traced the source of those tickets back to Ticketmaster's parent company Live Nation, with the tickets designated for "Live Nation executives" in internal documents.