🌅 Horizon Future Leaders - Isabella Mimi
This week we caught up with Isabella Mimi, Creative Strategy Lead at Your Culture and Four Four Digital, and part of a new generation redefining how artists connect with fans.…
🎧 Approved: Milo Korbenski
Imagine a flickering arcade in Brighton at 2am: music seeps from the speakers, boxy torn-cone distortion and octave-dropped vocals coalescing with synths. That’s Milo Korbenski, a figure as enigmatic as his sound. New single ‘Bedrock’ shifts the pace into indie slacker-ballad territory…
As EU hits pause on UMG Downtown investigation after “parties fail to provide important info”, Downtown boss whines about “misinformation”
More Downtown drama as the EU says it has not received an “important piece of information” it needs to investigate UMG’s acquisition, while Downtown’s boss whines about indie “misinformation”. The real question is: why are Universal-aligned execs so scared of IMPALA and other indie trade bodies?…
Music Industry + Music Education Conference to return to Manchester
CMU’s Pathways Into Music Foundation presents an annual conference bringing together music industry and music education. This year’s edition will put the spotlight on music career resources; accreditation in music education and the industry; and how music companies can best support future talent…
UK live music spend reached £6.68 billion last year, but challenges remain
Trade group LIVE has published its annual report providing stats on the UK live music sector, in which consumer spend rose 9.5% to £6.68 billion last year. However, while the upper end of live is booming, those operating at the grassroots are struggling and need more government support…
More upheaval at Warner Music as UK label chiefs will report directly to US execs
Warner Music has announced a big rejig at its UK business, following the news CEO Tony Harlow is standing down. He won’t be replaced, with UK label bosses now reporting into their US counterparts, including Elliot Grainge, while operational teams will report into EMEA President Simon Robson…
Sting owes us £1.5m from 1970s song split deal, say former bandmates
It emerged last month that former members of The Police were locked in a legal battle, with Andy Summers and Stewart Copeland claiming that Sting owes them £1.5 million in publishing royalties stemming from a 1970s band agreement. More details about that dispute are now known…
Yet another senior exec out at Warner Music as UK boss Tony Harlow quits
As Warner Music continues its massive restructuring and downsizing exercise, the boss of the major’s UK business, Tony Harlow, has announced he is stepping down. No word yet on what that means for the structure of Warner UK, though we’ve been promised another update this week…
🎧 Approved: Déyyess
Déyyess makes “sparkley grunge”, a sound that blends sapphic tenderness with 90s-indebted shoegaze shimmer. New single ‘She Knows’ is all quiet radiance and anxious crush energy, channelling the crystalline melancholy of The Sundays, while nodding to contemporary queer icons like Chappell Roan…
Nordic licensing hub Polaris to shut down due to ‘evolving market conditions’
Polaris, a digital licensing hub set up by three Nordic collecting societies, will wind down its operations next year with the three societies concluding that it’s no longer “the most suitable solution” for representing their respective relationships with digital platforms like Spotify and TikTok…
Billion dollar piracy win for majors “defies common law and common sense” says Cox
The US Supreme Court has agreed to review the long-running legal battle between ISP Cox and the major labels. Cox wants the top court to reverse the billion dollar ruling in that litigation and, in a new court filing, again claims that failing to do so will result in mass internet disconnections…
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