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📑 CMU Digest: Spotify hits back at MLC lawsuit + Q2 financial updates
CMU Digest is a weekly round-up of the most interesting music business news stories from the last seven days.…
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⏩ One Liners: Industry news in brief including deals, appointments and legal from Position Music, Downtown, Primary Wave, Deezer, CIISA + more
Primary Wave x Toto’s Steve Pocaro, Downtown x Lady Blackbird, new Deezer CEO, Italian PRO stats, Philip Glass battles pro-Putin ballet director, Stormzy’s tinted Lambo windows, plus releases & tours news from Aitch, Porter Robinson, Jorja Smith, BABii, Muni Long, Raleigh Ritchie + more…
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⏩ One Liners: Deals, Appointments, Industry News including Warner Chappell, Wise Music Group, Universal earnings + more
Lucian Grainge's massive bonus looks a lot less certain as UMG's share price falls off a cliff. Wise Music signs The Staves, Armada Music partners with Warner and Africori, Kobalt ups Bob Bruderman and Maximilian Kolb leaves BMG…
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⏩ One Liners: Deals, Legal & Digital including Quicket, HYBE and Audiomack, plus latest new releases
Ticketmaster x Quicket, Tunespotter x What-song.com, Ador v HYBE dramas continue, TikTok fined by OfCom, Eminem gets a BRIT Billion Award, Audiomack launches Sponsored Songs, Burna Boy x YouTube, Alison Goldfrapp launches label + more, plus new releases including Rosie Lowe and Blossoms…
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BBC provides update on Tim Westwood investigation, report should be published this autumn
The BBC has said that the report it commissioned into the past conduct of Tim Westwood should be published this autumn. It instigated an investigation after allegations of sexual misconduct were made against the DJ, with many of the alleged incidents occurring while he worked for the broadcaster…
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One liners: Deals, Legal & Digital including Orfium, Kakao and Apple Music, plus latest new releases
ONErpm x Sick Puppies, Orfium x Pony Canyon, Kakao founder Kim Beom-su arrested, SoundExchange sues AccuRadio, Apple’s new classical chart, UK Music tourism report, Venues Day, Metallica’s All Within My Hands Foundation + more, plus new releases including LSDXOXO, JADE and Yannis & The Yaw…
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⏩ One Liners: Deals, Direct-To-Fan & Awards including Cirque du Soleil, Ariana Grande and Mercury Prize, plus latest new releases
BMG x Cirque du Soleil, Shakatak v NewJeans, Ariana Grande x Weverse, KP Snacks x Live Nation, Linecheck Academy, Mercury Prize update, billionaire Bruce Springsteen, Republicans annoy with music choices + more, plus latest new releases including Limoblaze, Jelly Roll and Logic…
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📑 CMU Digest: Live Nation antitrust push back + sheet music wars in court
CMU Digest is a weekly round-up of the most interesting music business news stories from the last seven days.…
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🤝 One Liners: Deals, Digital & Appointments including Enter Shikari, The Weeknd x Apple Vision Pro, Distrokid, Timbaland’s Chinese beats deal, Key Production’s SMART formats, The Prodigy’s booze trademarks + more
Enter Shikari’s football strip, Warner Chappell and 300 Publishing team up, Armada x Deep Dish, Calvin Harris catalogue bought by Shamrock, Reservoir signs Wrabel. Plus: appointments at Splice, Activist Artist Management and Warner Music Nashville…
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📣 One Liners: Releases & Tours including Role Model, COBRAH x Amanda Lepore, Paris Paloma, Joe Jonas, Lil Yachty + more
Other releases include Porter Robinson, Alice Phoebe Lou, ArrDee, BLK ODYSSY, Denzel Curry, Lava La Rue, Morgan Wade, Tom Walker, Destroy Boys, The Script, Big Sean, Chase & Status + IRAH, Duran Duran, James Bay, Mal Not Bad, Kids In Glass Houses, Imogen And The Knife…
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👀 One Liners: Legal, Live & Industry news - Serato x Pioneer deal stalls, Kerry Katona’s accountant admits fraud, Epic v Apple escalates, The Loop launches online training, global IT outage impacts production tools, War Child’s BRITS Week raises £430k
Serato x Pioneer, Priscilla Presley lawsuit, former Atomic Kitten’s accountant admits fraud, DJ Ron Trent accuses booking agent, Moonbug asks for more damages in Cocomelon trial victory, R Kelly live shows lawsuit settled + more…
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⏩ One Liners: Artist News, gigs and releases including Westlife AI, Chief Keef cancellation, Fantasy Orchestra + more
Westlife’s Tencent Music Kugou AIK deal, Chief Keef medical emergency, why Donald Glover is ditching Childish Gambino moniker, Damon Albarn given honorary doctorate by Essex University, Fantasy Orchestra plays Union Chapel plus releases from Overmono, Palms Trax, Lava La Rue…