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Deals, Appointments and other news including Reservoir, IDOL, Universal Music Publishing, Downtown Music Holdings, Warner Music, Pye Records, Reigning Phoenix Music, Red Bull, Massive Attack, Full Fat + more…

Champ, Red Light and Vector Management deals; Sonicbids acquired; Reed Smith, Cinq and PPL PRS appointments; Dean Guitars vs Gibson; Nirvana lawsuit; Young Thug update; YouTube Music’s AI radio; Spotify podcast comments; streaming fraud detection tools, venue closures and latest releases…

IMRO ICE deal; Believe’s Global Records stake; Primary Wave acquires Keith Forsey rights; FKP Scorpio and BMI appointments; Warner Music Balkans launch; BPI Grow Music programme; FORWARDS partners with Channel 4; Festivals For Ukraine toolkit; New music from Felix Jaehn, Confidence Man, Jon Hopkins…

Ministerial appointments in the new UK government of relevance to the music industry; O2 Silver Clef Awards presented; Barrie Marshall gets NAA award; Apple’s Eddy Cue interview; Stevie Nicks postpones shows; new music from Sault, Will Young, Cassyette and deadmau5…

BBC invests in Condense; BMG boss joins Bertelsmann board; charts of 2024 so far; Michael Bibi to raise awareness for stem cell transplant charity; Ed Sheeran and Kasbian shows; 6 Music at All Points East; New music from The Streets, Ragz Originale, HNNY, Jake Bugg, Bklava and Jim Legxacy…

Third Side Music deal; Quality Control and OTM Music appointments; PPL Momentum Music Fund recipients; Elton John auction; Greatest Hits Radio Live; Tours from Pale Waves and London Grammar; New music from Lana Del Rey & Quavo, Kesha, Rosie Lowe and Human Interest…