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📑 CMU Digest: Sony's Queen deal, TikTok ban latest + more
CMU's weekly round-up of the most interesting music business news stories…
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📑 CMU Digest: Spotify, politics, merch fights + more
We've read ALL the election manifestos so you don't have to...…
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Spotlight: Karousel Music East London Showcase
The Karousel Music east London showcase with SESAC and the MMF has been running since 2011 - and now for almost a decade at Paper Dress Vintage in Hackney. Check out this edition's line-up…
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📑 CMU Digest: Ticketmaster breach, Madge show distressingly erotic + more
The essential music business news from the last week…
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📑 CMU Digest: Live Nation lawsuit, Spotify bundling dispute + more
The essential music business news from the last week…
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⏩ One Liners: Ivors Awards, Skrillex, Melt-Banana + more
Kavi publishing deal; Tokischa launches label; EMMA + beatBread; Runway and GESAC appointments; Ivors winners; new music from Skrillex, Eli & Fur, Melt-Banana, Maxïmo Park, Don Toliver and Moby…
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NPMA's Judiciary Committee letter in full
The NMPA has provided CMU with a copy of the letter that it sent to members of the House and Senate Judiciary Committees relating to legislative changes it says are needed to resolve the Spotify audiobooks bundle dispute…
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UK Music’s Director of Research Andy Edwards on the value of music creators’ economic data
UK Music has launched its annual This Is Music Creators’ Survey. The trade body’s Director of Research Andy Edwards explains how responses are used, both in contributing to its calculation of the music industry’s overall contribution to the UK economy and identifying key issues facing creators…
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📑 CMU Digest: SXSW London, Lucian's pay + more
SXSW London is using a network of opaque offshore companies to put on its event…
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Spot 2024 kicks off in Aarhus tomorrow
This year’s Spot festival in Denmark gets started tomorrow, with a packed programme of conference sessions and showcases. CMU’s Chris Cooke will be talking AI, digital business models and streaming fraud in the conference programme…
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Wide Days 2024 kicks off in Edinburgh tomorrow
This year’s Wide Days music convention in Scotland gets started tomorrow, with a wide range of events - including one on the opportunities offered by AI featuring CMU’s Sam Taylor…
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📑 CMU Digest: Co-op Live has been having a pretty bad week...
Gedagedigedagedago! It's not often that you see a major live venue do a reverse Rickroll, but Co-op Live pulled it off.…