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CMU Podcast: Adele, Cox Communications, Paul Weller, Dancing Jesus

By Chris Cooke and Andy Malt | Published on Friday 27 November 2015

CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review the week in music and the music business, including Adele’s record-breaking week, Cox Communications’ dispute with BMG and Round Hill, Paul Weller’s dispute with the Daily Mail, and Noisey’s interview with the guy behind Dancing Jesus. The CMU Podcast is sponsored by 7digital.

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Stories discussed this week

• Adele’s 25 won’t stream, for now
• According to the latest records, Adele’s latest record is set to break records
• Adele breaks US chart record
• Adele is at least thinking about headlining Glastonbury
• Here’s another story about Adele breaking sales records, and some tour dates to flesh it out
• Significant pre-trial ruling in ongoing BMG/Round Hill v Cox case
• Cox Communications’ insurers don’t want to pay for BMG/Round Hill legal battle
• Daily Mail fails in appeal over Paul Weller privacy rights ruling
• How a kid running an obscure music forum became the target of the UK’s biggest ever piracy case (Noisey)

CMU Approved

• Youth Lagoon
• Motern Media
• Deaths
• Tkay Maidza

What we didn’t have time to talk about

• French live industry appeals for state assistance in wake of Paris attacks, as Vice publishes Eagles Of Death Metal interview
• Benjamin Clementine wins 2015 Mercury Prize
• £1.3 million lost to ticket fraud in just six months, says new report
• Wu-Tang sell secret album for “millions”

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