*Music Industry Insight
Spotify’s Loud & Clear website has had its annual overhaul, and this year’s big headline stats bang is that the streaming service’s total pay out to the music industry topped…
Annual streaming revenues in the UK record industry have broken through the £1 billion threshold for the first time, according to the latest figures from British record label trade group…
Brazil’s competition regulator CADE is investigating the country’s main trade body for music publishers, UBEM, over its role in negotiating licensing deals around mechanical rights for its members. Although the…
Approved: Choses SauvagesMontreal’s Choses Sauvages toe multiple lines within the realm of modern post-punk, new wave, disco and Krautrock; making existential dread feel like something you should move your body to. Part…
A court in Seoul last week asked the members of K-pop group NewJeans – or NJZ if you prefer – to restructure and revise their list of reasons for terminating…
KILIMANJARO’s new four-track EP ‘Makalelo (Origins)’ KILIMANJARO’s new four-track EP translates to ‘beginnings’ in Lozi, his native Zambian tongue, which feels fitting because this thing sounds like the start of…
A petition demanding that Spotify remove courses published on its platform by controversial creator Andrew Tate has passed 25,000 signatures. Campaigners identified three editions of a podcast fronted by Tate…
One of the song-theft lawsuits in which Ed Sheeran is accused of ripping off Marvin Gaye’s ‘Let’s Get It On’ when he wrote his hit ‘Thinking Out Loud’ could end…
Universal Music pumped €1 billion into acquisitions and investments last year, and plans to maintain “similar investment levels in the next few years”, according to COO and CFO Boyd Muir,…
The bosses of indie sector trade groups IMPALA and AIM have issued new statements expressing further concern about the ever increasing dominance of Universal Music in the recorded music market.…