Utopia Music has a new CEO. Again. In fact, it’s now got three CEOs.
Because it’s a Friday, or maybe because it’s a bit windy today, Utopia Music has a new CEO. In what’s becoming a monthly tradition for the beleaguered Swiss music company,…
India’s streaming growth explodes to hit over one trillion streams, Gen Z pull back on streaming subscription spend
Music data company Luminate has published its annual ‘Year-End Music Report’, breaking out a wide range of stats and data to illuminate our understanding of modern music consumption. By a…
⏩ One Liners: Sinead O’Connor, 21 Savage, Independent Venue Week + more
APPOINTMENTS 💡 PRS For Music has appointed Stevie Spring as its new Chair. She replaces Stephen Davidson, who steps down after a decade in the role. She is currently also…
The year ahead: Silvia Montello, CEO of AIM
As we head into 2024, CMU recently sat down with the bosses of many of the music industry’s trade organisations to talk about their work, the key challenges faced by…
SoundCloud private equity owners mulling $1 billion sale
SoundCloud owners consider a sale seeking over $1 billion The current owners of SoundCloud are reportedly preparing to sell the company in a deal that could top $1 billion. That…
D2C Marketing Assistant // Full Time Hobby Music (London)
Full Time Hobby Music is an umbrella group covering the record labels Full Time Hobby and Hassle Records, along with publishing and management. FTHM is looking for a new member…
Logistics & Production Assistant // terrible* (London)
we’re artists, apparel designers, data scientists and entrepreneurs making, managing and moving physical products online and at-show for the greatest creators on the planet terrible* manages the entire merchandise supply…
Vinyl sales grow, cassettes slump; streaming now 87.7% of UK music consumption
Streaming accounted for 87.7% of music consumption in the UK last year, according to UK record industry trade group BPI, with 179.6 billion streams being delivered across 2023. That’s up…
Artificial Intelligence and the music industry in 2023
Over the past twelve months – and, in fact, for considerably longer than that – CMU has been following the evolution of AI and its intersection with the music industry…
Nevermind artwork lawsuit revived on appeal
The Ninth Circuit Appeals Court in the US has revived a lawsuit which claims that the cover of classic Nirvana album ‘Nevermind’ constitutes “child pornography”, with appeal judges concluding that…