The winners of this year’s Oram Awards for innovation in experimental sound have been announced, with eight artists recognised for their work and offered financial support to develop their careers…
Daniel Johns signs to BMG; Artist First launches live division; new music from Folly Group and Sean Nicholas Savage; live dates from Sampha, Echo & The Bunnymen and Cast…
Three Six Zero partners with Something In Common; Metropolis Studios promotes Charlie Colton; new music from Raye and Hans Zimmer, and Bad Boy Chiller Crew; live performances from Take That, and Giggs and Diddy; UK Festival Awards shortlists…
Spotify's plans to change the way it allocates revenues to individual tracks and catalogues each month, and the confirmation that digital is now the biggest driver of revenue for the song rights collecting societies…
The Beatles will release their “last song” to feature contributions from all four members next week. Titled ‘Now And Then’, a John Lennon demo was “de-mixed” using AI technology in order to then create the finished version…
Young Fathers’ latest album ‘Heavy Heavy’ has won this year's Scottish Album Of The Year Award. Paolo Nutini’s ‘These Streets’ was also named a Modern Scottish Classic and No Windows received the Sound Of Young Scotland prize…
HarbourView acquires Christine McVie, Pat Benatar and Neil Giraldo rights; new music from Zara Larsson, David Guetta, The Kid Laroi, Madness, Everything Everything, Mxmtoon, Spector, and LULU.; Chase & Status secret show; UK Music Video Awards winners; LIVE Awards nominees…
The BBC has published a report detailing various stats from this year’s Eurovision Song Contest in Liverpool, including that it delivered a £55 million economic boost to the city…
Peermusic acquires Artic Rights Management; new music from Kaiser Chiefs, Yunè Pinku, Yard Act, Cast, Piri & Tommy, Grandaddy, and Madge x Portugal. The Man; Cancer Bats touring as Bat Sabbath…
Deezer and French collecting society Sacem have announced a new partnership to assess the viability of switching to an “artist-centric” model for distributing song royalties - similar to what the streaming service is already piloting on the recordings side…
Sentric signs Amon Tobin; Warner signs Mavi; IMPALA publishes diversity report; new music from Green Day, Duran Duran, The Kills, Chelsea Wolfe, Coco, Deep Tan and Gag Salon; Loyle Carner and Underworld tour dates…
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