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CMU’s One Liners: Beggars Group, Ole, Pandora, more

By Andy Malt and Chris Cooke | Published on Wednesday 11 November 2015

Other notable announcements and developments today…

• UK indie powerhouse the Beggars Group posted net profits of £3.8 million for 2014 on £42 million of revenue, according to its latest Companies House filing. This is down a little on 2013 and – Music Ally notes – in line with 2010 figures, aka Pre-Adele-21. So, as the Adele-25 spike looms, that probably demonstrates Beggars is performing well even without its superstar.

• Canadian music publisher Ole has bought record label Anthem Entertainment Group as part of a move into the label services business. “Entering” says CEO Robert Ott.

• Pandora hoping to launch in the UK? What kind of crazy nonsense is this? Perhaps it hopes new best mate Sony/ATV will help it out on the publishing side to avoid a stand-off with PRS on rates this time. Good luck with that.

• Mariah Carey will play a role in the upcoming ‘Lego Batman Movie’, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

• There’s a new Saul Williams single for you to listen to. Titled ‘Burundi’, it features Warpaint’s Emily Kokal. Here’s the video. New album ‘MartyrLoserKing’ is out on 29 Jan.

• Bad luck if you’d put money on Arca not releasing any more singles from his ‘Mutant’ album before it comes out on 20 Nov. Here’s ‘Vanity’.

• Daniel Avery has announced his first new release in ages, ‘Sensation’. The single is also the Phantasy labels’ 50th release. Listen here.

• Ty Segall is releasing a compilation of his singles and EP as Ty Rex. That’s out on 4 Dec through Goner Records.

• Nordic Giants have a new video out. It’s for ‘A Thousand Lost Dreams’. It is a good video. Look. And they’re on tour this month, starting tonight in Torrington.

• Port St Willow has a new album called ‘Syncope’ out on 20 Nov. From it, this is ‘Ordinary Pleasure’.