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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!…
Universal submits scathing response to allegations made against it in Diddy lawsuit
Universal Music and its CEO Lucian Grainge were named as co-defendants in a recent lawsuit targeting Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs. But the allegations made against the music company and its boss were so “knowingly false”, they should never have been included in the lawsuit, a new legal filing states…
Excessive spending, poor systems, missing documents and misleading statements: Shot Tower Capital’s blistering assessment of Hipgnosis Song Management couldn’t be much worse
Shot Tower Capital presented its findings to the Hipgnosis Songs Fund board in a blistering document that alleges significant mismanagement by Hipgnosis Song Management. HSM immediately issued a statement saying that key parts of the STC report are “factually inaccurate and misleading”…
Setlist Podcast: Make big shows fund grassroots music, politicians told
UK politicians hear possible solutions to the grassroots venues crisis, Nirvana logo dispute back in court…
French indie label body UPFI calls on French government to intervene in potential Warner Music Group takeover of Believe
In a statement issued by UPFI the French independent label trade body says that it is concerned about the "potentially devastating consequences" if Warner Music Group is allowed to take over Believe saying that music creation in France would suffer…
⏩ One Liners: Camila Cabello, Twenty One Pilots, Aurora + more
Ronnie Spector, Portico Quartet deals; Ostereo, EarthPercent, Island, Primary Wave appointments; new Johnnys doc; Image Of Music Awards; Twenty One Pilots tour; Hold Steady children’s book; new music from Camila Cabello, Aurora, Paraorchestra, Kneecap, Arab Strap, Clarissa Connelly, Bad With Phones…
Approved: Anastasia Coope
Anastasia Coope began making music while staying in a relative’s vacant house, singing into the empty living room and creating a sound to fill that space. Out in May, her debut album ‘Darning Woman’ pushes her ideas further, resulting in deconstructed folk songs that are delivered like mantras…
Travis Scott seeks to be removed from Astroworld lawsuits, as lawyers query if performers should have crowd management training
More legal filings have been made in the Astroworld litigation as the first lawsuits head to trial in May. Travis Scott and his touring company XX Global have requested to be removed as a defendants because they were not responsible for event safety…
Utopia! Whotopia? The Swiss music company has a Proper strategy…
What does a defunct 1990s London-based ad agency have to do with Swiss music company Utopia? It involves a fat man smothered in orange body paint, a tin of quick drying wood preservative, and an ill-considered photo shoot described to CMU as “looking like it took place in a brothel”...…
Rapper ordered to pay $800,000 to Sony over TikTok hit with unlicensed sample
A US court has ordered rapper Trefuego to pay Sony Music over $800,000 in damages after he used an uncleared sample in a track that went viral on TikTok. However, the judge declined to issue an injunction banning future distribution of the track…
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