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CMU Podcast: David Bowie, SoundCloud, Spotify, Live Nation

By Andy Malt and Chris Cooke | Published on Friday 15 January 2016

CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review the week in music and the music business, including David Bowie, Universal finally doing a licensing deal with SoundCloud, Spotify’s mechanical royalty disputes in the US, and Songkick suing Live Nation. The CMU Podcast is sponsored by 7digital.

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Stories discussed this week

• David Bowie 1947-2016
• Universal finally agrees SoundCloud licensing deal
• Spotify faces second multi-million mechanical royalties lawsuit
• Songkick sues Live Nation over anti-trust claims
• Ticketmaster defends the Adele tickets on its secondary sites

CMU Approved

• PAUW
• FEMM
• Sofi Tukker
• Fort Romeau

What we didn’t have time to talk about

• Apple Music tops ten million subscribers
• Jack Garratt tops BBC Sound Of 2016 poll
• SFX appoints restructuring experts, bankruptcy options now on the agenda
• Rightscorp settles class action over its phone calls to suspected pirates
• Bono dares you to ride a bike with him for charity

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