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Hipgnosis vote shock: 83.2% of shareholders vote against continuation
A significant majority of Hipgnosis Songs Fund shareholders have voted against continuation and also to eject the company's chair Andrew Sutch…
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Digital now biggest revenue generator for song right collecting societies, CISAC confirms
Digital was the biggest revenue generator for the world’s song right collecting societies last year, accounting for 37.7% of total collections, according to the latest 'Global Collections Report' from CISAC…
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Warner Chappell and Transgressive extend their publishing partnership
The Transgressive music publishing business has renewed its partnership with Warner Chappell - it has now worked with the major for seventeen years…
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Mixmag 40th anniversary exhibition to raise funds for CALM
Mixmag will next month celebrate its 40th anniversary with an exhibition of covers at the Outernet complex in London, raising money for CALM…
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Brazilian industry welcomes shutdown of piracy site FileWarez
The record industry in Brazil has welcomed the shutdown of piracy site FileWarez following action taken by the cybercrime unit at the São Paulo prosecutor’s office…
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Emily Eavis says organising things a bit later might have got Glastonbury a stand-out headliner
Emily Eavis has been talking Glastonbury headliners with BBC podcast Sidetrack - though she didn’t actually reveal who will be playing next year…
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Spotify also in talks with industry to change track allocation process
Spotify is in talks with the labels and distributors about changing the way it allocates revenues to tracks each month - like with changes proposed by Deezer, Spotify’s plan will impact functional audio and smaller self-releasing musicians…
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One Liners: Green Day, Loyle Carner, Amon Tobin + more
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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Hipgnosis Songs Fund confirms it has received no higher offers for catalogue sale
The board of the publicly-listed Hipgnosis Songs Fund have confirmed that they haven’t received any higher offers for the catalogues they are proposing to sell to the Blackstone-backed Hipgnosis Songs Capital…
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Three more DJs to be supported by Radio 1's Annie Nightingale Presents Scholarship
The DJs set to be supported by the Annie Nightingale Presents Scholarship this year have been announced: Imogen, Jay Carder and Rossy…
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GESAC welcomes European Parliament support for measures against buy-outs
GESAC, representing song right collecting societies across Europe, has welcomed the news that two European Parliament committees have adopted a report which, among other things, calls for protections for music-makers against forced buy-outs when they are commissioned to create new music…
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The Circuit Group and Defected Records partner
The newly formed Circuit Group has announced an alliance with dance music label Defected Records as it continues “to establish our new vision across the music landscape"…