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Hipgnosis war of words ramps up with Extraordinary General Meeting proposal for £20 million "bung"

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Hipgnosis • 4 min read

Hipgnosis war of words ramps up with Extraordinary General Meeting proposal for £20 million "bung"

Stand off between Hipgnosis Songs Fund and Hipgnosis Song Management continues with new board calling for EGM and offering £20 million to anyone who might want to buy the company…

Sam Taylor • 19 Jan 2024

MLC planning massive audit of all streaming services - but it’s not as dramatic as it sounds. Yet.

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MLC • 2 min read

MLC planning massive audit of all streaming services - but it’s not as dramatic as it sounds. Yet.

The MLC in the US has announced it will audit streaming services, including those run by Spotify, Apple, Amazon and YouTube - the collecting society has the right to undertake audits under the compulsory licence it administers…

Sam Taylor • 19 Jan 2024

Utopia Music has a new CEO. Again. In fact, it's now got three CEOs.

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Utopia Music • 4 min read

Utopia Music has a new CEO. Again. In fact, it's now got three CEOs.

Another day, another Utopia CEO. Michael Stebler, leader of Utopia's Christmas Coup, is now Utopia's Group CEO - with most recent CEO Alain Couttolenc moved sideways and downwards. It's like musical snakes and ladders.…

Sam Taylor • 12 Jan 2024

India’s streaming growth explodes to hit over one trillion streams, Gen Z pull back on streaming subscription spend

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Music Data • 8 min read

India’s streaming growth explodes to hit over one trillion streams, Gen Z pull back on streaming subscription spend

In 2023 83% of the global streaming catalogue failed to reach the new thousand stream ‘artist-centric’ threshold, while India saw exponential growth in stream volumes. Read CMU’s expert analysis of the numbers.…

Sam Taylor • 11 Jan 2024

Universal “most successful company in the history of the music industry” hoots Grainge in 2024 memo

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Lucian Grainge • 4 min read

Universal “most successful company in the history of the music industry” hoots Grainge in 2024 memo

Universal Music CEO Lucian Grainge has sent out his start-of-the-year memo, formally welcoming the changes that have been made to the streaming model which he first demanded a year ago, and confirming that super-serving superfans will be a priority in 2024…

Sam Taylor • 10 Jan 2024

Artificial Intelligence and the music industry in 2023

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Artificial Intelligence • 37 min read

Artificial Intelligence and the music industry in 2023

Music industry experts CMU take a deep-dive look at everything that happened in AI and the music business during 2023. Bookmark this for later!…

Chris Cooke & Sam Taylor • 03 Jan 2024

Linkfire announces changes to C-level team, de-lists from NASDAQ First North exchange

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Linkfire • 6 min read

Linkfire announces changes to C-level team, de-lists from NASDAQ First North exchange

Extraordinary General Meeting at Linkfire sees CEO and CFO exit and company to delist from Stockholm First North stock exchange…

Sam Taylor • 27 Dec 2023

More changes at Utopia as investors demand more control, increased oversight

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Utopia Music • 4 min read

More changes at Utopia as investors demand more control, increased oversight

EGM at Utopia sees new chair appointed, Hjelmstedt to step back but keep board seat, €15 million fresh investment from syndicate of existing investors.…

Sam Taylor • 21 Dec 2023

Apple to provide royalty boost to tracks delivered in Dolby Atmos

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Apple Music • 2 min read

Apple to provide royalty boost to tracks delivered in Dolby Atmos

Apple Music is planning on paying a higher royalty on tracks delivered to the streaming service in spatial audio formats, even if users opt to listen in the standard format…

Sam Taylor • 13 Dec 2023

Norwegian Supreme Court copyright ruling “has dire consequences”, according to one artist involved in the case

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Copyright • 3 min read

Norwegian Supreme Court copyright ruling “has dire consequences”, according to one artist involved in the case

A ruling in the Norwegian Supreme Court over who owns the rights in recordings made by online collaborators working in different countries should, says one of the collaborators involve in the case, “worry any artist that is working with Norwegian labels and musicians”…

Chris Cooke & Sam Taylor • 08 Dec 2023

Spotify confirms the cost of its dramatic downsizing, cancels two in-house podcasts

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Spotify • 3 min read

Spotify confirms the cost of its dramatic downsizing, cancels two in-house podcasts

Spotify has confirmed that the dramatic downsizing of its workforce announced earlier this week will cost the company up to €145 million…

Chris Cooke & Sam Taylor • 06 Dec 2023

BBC must do more to move music and radio out of London says National Audit Office

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BBC • 1 min read

BBC must do more to move music and radio out of London says National Audit Office

The National Audit Office has criticised the BBC for the lack of progress in some areas of its ‘Across The UK’ strategy to move BBC spending out of London to strengthen the creative industries across the UK…

Sam Taylor • 24 Nov 2023