CMU Selects - the last week’s standout releases
New music from Ethel Cain, Nilüfer Yanya, Kesha, TeeZandos and nabeel. Five standout releases that stood out to us over the last week…
Artificial Intelligence
EU AI Act
European Composer & Songwriter Alliance (ECSA)
International Artist Organisation
Henna Virkkunen
Glenn MIcallef
Music industry legal news coverage
EU AI Act can only provide a “temporary fix” to the “darker aspect” of AI’s “profound disruption” to creative industries says open letter
BBC Music boss steps back, Met Police investigate and Radar Festival responds as Bob Vylan controversy rumbles on
The promoter of Manchester’s Radar Festival has spoken about being forced to remove Bob Vylan from her line-up in the wake of the duo’s Glastonbury set. Meanwhile, the BBC continues to apologise for broadcasting that set, as the Met Police investigates comments made at an earlier Bob Vylan gig…
“Huge skip” appears outside The Leadmill as team begins to strip venue back to “derelict flour mill”
The team behind Sheffield’s The Leadmill are in the process of vacating the building after being evicted by The Electric Group, which plans to take over running the venue. The current team pledged to strip the building bare if forced to leave and it looks like that’s exactly what they’re doing…
🌅 Horizon Future Leaders - Grace Croucher
This week, we caught up with Grace Croucher – Senior Membership & Events Manager at The Ivors Academy - where she leads on strategy, programming and partnerships to support songwriters and composers at every stage of their careers.…
Diddy lawyer hails “victory of all victories” as disgraced mogul is denied bail
Although Diddy was found guilty on some charges yesterday, he was acquitted on the charges of racketeering and sex trafficking, prompting his lawyer to claim “a victory of all victories”. However, bail was denied because during the trial Diddy’s own team admitted there was a “pattern of violence”…
European songwriter organisation ECSA joins call for EU to block UMG’s Downtown deal
Opposition to UMG’s deal to buy Downtown continues to build. Now ECSA has called on the EU to block the deal, sharing concerns expressed by indie labels, while also stressing that a more powerful Universal will have even more “influence” over collecting societies and how the digital pie is sliced…
Veteran DJ Tony Blackburn says OfCom’s decision to block BBC Radio 2 spin-off is “disgraceful”
The BBC’s plan to launch a new Radio 2 spin-off playing just golden oldies has been blocked by media regulator OfCom, a decision welcomed by commercial rivals, but criticised by the BBC and one of its presenters, Tony Blackburn. Three other new BBC spin-off stations have been given the go ahead…
🎧Approved: PARADE
Mysterious new eight-piece PARADE fuse off-kilter electronics with live instrumentation, where woozy synths, cinematic brass flourishes and punk guitar lines move together in unexpected ways. New single ‘It Moves’ is a fittingly strange introduction to upcoming EP ‘Lightning Hit The Trees’…
“Red-faced and sweaty” Live Nation executives face CMA legal action over Oasis tickets
Live Nation’s Phil ‘Brick Top’ Bowdery and Ticketmaster UK top banana Andrew Parsons arrived 15 minutes late last week to give evidence to MPs as part of the Business And Trade Committee’s ‘Rip-off Britain’ inquiry. Given how badly things went from there, they might regret having turned up at all……
Warner Music chief announces more job cuts in bid to save $170 million
Warner Music boss Robert Kyncl yesterday wrote to the major’s employees to announce a plan to cut the company’s annual costs by $300 million, with $170 million of the savings coming from job cuts. The CEO says the cuts are needed to “future-proof the company and unlock the next era of growth”…
Music industry welcomes removal of AI regulation moratorium from One Big Beautiful Bill
When Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill was passed by the House Of Representatives in May it included a provision pausing all state-level regulation of AI in the US. Critics saw it as an attempt by big tech to slow down and lessen AI regulation. The provision has now been removed by the Senate…
Diddy guilty of “transportation to engage in prostitution”, but acquitted on sex trafficking and racketeering charges
Diddy has been acquitted of sex trafficking and racketeering charges at the end of a dramatic seven week trial in New York, but he has been found guilty on two charges of “transportation to engage in prostitution”. That conviction could still result in a 20 year prison sentence…
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