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CMU Digest 23.02.18: Amazon Tickets, Spotify, touting rules, agent of change, CD sales

Amazon is closing its UK ticketing business, Spotify's founders are to keep extra voting rights, and Scotland has adopted the agent of change principle in planning rules.…

Chris Cooke • 23 Feb 2018

Business News • 2 min read

Amazon reportedly abandons bid to enter US ticketing market

Amazon has reportedly all but abandoned plans to launch its ticketing service in the US after failing to reach a deal with Ticketmaster.…

Andy Malt • 24 Nov 2017

Business News • 1 min read

Amazon Tickets to offer Prime perks

Amazon Prime members in the UK will get ticket perks including access to Amazon lounges at AEG venues, priority pre-sales and a terrace at AEG's British Summer Time shows.…

Chris Cooke • 29 Mar 2017

Artist News • 1 min read

CMU's One Liners: BBC Sound Of 2017, iHeart Radio, Amazon, more

Ray BLK is named BBC Sound Of 2017, iHeart Radio exits beta in the US, Amazon hires a ticketing director, and several artists announce releases and tours.…

Andy Malt • 06 Jan 2017

Artist News • 1 min read

CMU's One Liners: Amazon Tickets, Years & Years, The Jesus And Mary Chain, more

Round-up including Amazon Tickets' Justin Bieber presale, Years & Years' Shelter performance, The Jesus And Mary Chain tour dates and Alice Cooper's UK tour.…

Andy Malt • 14 Dec 2016

Business News • 1 min read

CMU Podcast: YouTube, SFX, Irving Azoff

The CMU Podcast discusses the IFPI's response to YouTube's payments, SFX's rebrand as LiveStyle and Irving Azoff's complaint about US radio.…

Andy Malt • 09 Dec 2016

Artist News • 1 min read

Amazon is the exclusive ticket agent for intimate Robbie Williams show

Amazon Tickets is the exclusive ticket agent for an intimate Robbie Williams show at St John At Hackney Church later this month.…

Chris Cooke • 06 Dec 2016

Artist News • 1 min read

CMU Podcast: Fabric, Amazon Tickets, OK Go

CMU's Andy Malt and Chris Cooke discuss Fabric's reopening, Amazon's ticketing plans, OK Go's new video and other news from the past week.…

Andy Malt • 25 Nov 2016

Business News • 1 min read

Amazon planning to "disrupt" global ticketing industry

Job adverts suggest Amazon is expanding its ticketing business, with ambitions in Europe, Asia and the US after its UK launch last year.…

Chris Cooke • 23 Nov 2016