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📑 CMU Digest: Warner x Believe deadline, blistering Hipgnosis report + more
Warner, Believe, BMG, Hipgnosis, Utopia... it's an Easter Weekend full house!…
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📑 CMU Digest: Music stats, fake streams, not-so-fake artists + more
Also... why did a robot completely humiliate James Blunt?…
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📑 CMU Digest: Be sold or be banned says US Congress to TikTok
Thursday is global Tiramisu day. Nothing else matters.…
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📑 CMU Digest: Spotify's French tantrum; WMG sets sights on Believe + more
That's "pique une colère" in the original French. Also: Apple's EU mega-fine even more mega.…
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The Centre national de la musique reacts to Spotify's open letter to its French subscribers
The Centre national de la musique has issued a statement responding to Spotify's open letter to French subscribers warning of an upcoming subscription increase…
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Music industry responds to UK budget
The UK Chancellor Of The Exchequer Jeremy Hunt yesterday announced the government’s latest budget. Numerous music industry organisations have issued responses, welcoming an extension of orchestra tax relief but criticising the continued lack of a reduction in VAT on ticket sales…
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Here’s what happened when we asked cutting edge AI chatbots to pretend to be millennials who had scrapped their streaming subscriptions.
Millennials are more likely to cut their streaming subscriptions. We wanted to know why, but couldn't find any to ask - so asked ChatGPT and Claude to pretend to be Millennials. Confusing? You bet. Fun? Maybe.…
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Pathways Into Music launches new professional development programme for music educators
The Pathways Into Music Foundation has announced a new professional development programme for music educators - including teachers, tutors, lecturers and people working for education hubs and talent development organisations - focused on how to best support young people pursuing a career in music…
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📑 CMU Digest: 3tone investor linked to funeral fraud, no "free ride" for TikTok says UMG's Grainge + more
And did Annie Lennox single-handedly change the course of technology?…
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📑 CMU Digest: MLC sues Pandora, Believe to go private + more
Give us our money says MLC to Pandora; Kemi Badenoch hates Kneecap + more…
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📑 CMU Digest: WMG + Spotify earnings, backlash at BBC radio plans, 3tone just won't stop + more
Major labels very important says major label boss; Spotify CEO makes employees feel really valued + more…
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Perspectives: Streaming Transparency Code
CMU recently sat down with executives from three of the music industry’s trade organisations - MMF’s Annabella Coldrick, ERA’s Kim Bayley, and BPI’s Sophie Jones - to get their perspectives on the recent Transparency Code for music streaming.…