PRS Foundation's 'Keychange' to announce 60 female artists and innovators at Reeperbahn FestivalIntroducing Keychange: a collaborative European programme led by PRS Foundation which empowers women to transform the music industry. Supporting 60 participants from across Europe, who will come together to form a network of female music creators and industry innovators, Keychange features a series of showcases, discussions, collaborations and a programme of creative labs at seven international festivals.
Spanning...
Posted on: 14/09/2017 Categories: News from RotD
Ever looking to expand its reach and significance across the globe, Armada Music has taken a big step to gain additional foothold in one of the world's most important and reputable music scenes. Today, the Amsterdam-based record label opened its U.K. office in London, a little over a year after setting up shop in New York.
Posted on: 14/09/2017 Categories: News from RotD
Marathon Artists is kicking off its second tech startup accelerator program, LABs, this October.
The first program last year focused on "tools for artist managers". Continuing its creator centric theme, LABs new cohort of six startups will focus on the topic of "content monetisation" in today's music landscape.
The program will explore "content monetisation" through various focal points as diverse as monetisation of editorial content, exploitation of music-related data in digital...
Posted on: 14/09/2017 Categories: News from RotD
Reservoir announces the acquisitions of the historic catalogs of soul legends Willie Mitchell, Leon Ware, Norman Harris, and The Commodores' Walter Orange and Thomas McClary. Collectively, the five deals bring over 1,000 genre defining songs to Reservoir's diverse and expanding catalog.
Posted on: 14/09/2017 Categories: News from RotD
Teens value video platforms for music discovery and social engagement, but, as they develop as music consumers, look to audio streaming services and are more prepared to pay for music.
The latest in a regular series of Insight Sessions was held earlier this week (27/6), unveiling new music research by Mark Mulligan of MiDiA Research – Generation Z: Meet the Young Millennials.
The report for BPI/ERA explores the music consumption habits and social media behaviour of today's...
Posted on: 28/06/2017 Categories: News from RotD
BIME Pro will return October 25th- 28th 2017 to celebrate its fifth anniversary in Bilbao, with what promises to be its most diverse and inspiring conference line up to date.
The annual music, tech and games get together is the largest meeting point in Europe for Latin American entertainment industry executives, allowing them to network and explore ideas with a wider multinational audience.
BIME Pro 2017 will be held once again at the BEC! Centre in Bilbao, with a host of speakers...
Posted on: 28/06/2017 Categories: News from RotD
Singer-songwriter Andy Partridge has signed a worldwide deal with Warner/Chappell Music (WCM), the music publishing company of Warner Music Group. The deal covers his most recent solo releases and all of his ongoing songwriting.
Best known as the co-founder, main songwriter, guitarist and lead vocalist of the band XTC, Partridge has also written for other artists ranging from Jamie Cullum to The Monkees in a career spanning five decades.
Posted on: 28/06/2017 Categories: News from RotD
Acquisition creates unmatched Neighboring Rights offering, adding Fintage House's incredible roster of artists such as Katy Perry, Bruce Springsteen, Britney Spears to Kobalt's existing roster of artists such as Paul McCartney, Sam Smith, Ariana Grande, and many more.
Kobalt, the leading independent music services company, today announced the acquisition of Fintage House's Neighboring Rights and Publishing businesses. The deal brokered by Shot Tower Capital, will see the transitioning...
Posted on: 27/09/2016 Categories: News from RotD
Bucks Music Group has signed a worldwide administration deal with Swedish-born band Francobollo, the first signing to producer Charlie Andrew's new publishing venture Big Tree Music.
BRIT Award and Mercury Prize winning producer Charlie Andrew (whose production credits include albums from alt-J, Benjamin Francis Leftwich and Money) launched Big Tree Music alongside sister label Square Leg Records in August this year.
The now London-based Francobollo are also the first signing to Square...
Posted on: 27/09/2016 Categories: News from RotD
Organisations representing record companies in the US and UK took legal action today against Youtube-mp3.org, the world's largest site dedicated to offering illegally "stream ripped" music. Both the site and its operator have generated millions of dollars without paying any remuneration to artists and rights holders. The activities also breach YouTube's Terms of Service.
Stream ripping is the process of 'ripping' or creating a downloadable file from content that is available to stream...
Posted on: 27/09/2016 Categories: News from RotD
Deezer and Orange France to renew partnership for a further two years
Orange has today announced that it will continue to develop the distribution of its Deezer subscription services to customers for a further two years, extending its focus on providing customers with premium content, including TV, cinema, press, music and video games.
The success of the Deezer service offered by Orange has proven that there is a very real demand by Orange customers to subscribe to the paid-for streaming...
Posted on: 27/09/2016 Categories: News from RotD
BPI, MPA & UKTI hosted annual event confirmed for 13th – 17th June 2016
Arts Council England funding available for new showcase element
Music companies and individuals looking to participate in the 12th US Sync Licensing Mission hosted jointly by the BPI, the Music Publishers Association (MPA) and UK Trade & Investment (UKTI) have until Thursday 28th April to submit their applications.
Held at the iconic Capitol Tower in the heart of Hollywood, this popular industry...
Posted on: 07/04/2016 Categories: News from RotD
Global EDM superstar Martin Garrix has extended his exclusive worldwide publishing deal with Universal Music Publishing Group, it was announced today by Mark Bremer, Managing Director of Universal Music Publishing Benelux.
In making the announcement, Bremer said, "As a multi-talented and versatile songwriter, artist and producer, Martin Garrix is has become a phenomenon in music and he continues to amaze us with his creativity. We are privileged to extend our successful publishing relationship...
Posted on: 07/04/2016 Categories: News from RotD
A quarter of EU citizens aged between 15 and 24 admit to intentionally using illegal sources to access online content in the past 12 months.
Most say they do this because it is free, or cheaper than accessing content from legal sources, according to a new report from the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO), which surveyed young people in each of the 28 EU Member States.
Films and series were the most accessed types of content from illegal sources, followed by music...
Posted on: 07/04/2016 Categories: News from RotD
Speakers To Include: Will Page (Spotify), Benji Rogers (PledgeMusic), Siofra McComb (The Other Hand), Zac Vibert (!K7 Artist & Label Services), Claire Mas (Communion Records), Phil Hutcheon (DICE.fm)& more
Wednesday 27th April 2016, Glaziers Hall, London SE1
A host of senior music business figures have been confirmed for AIM's Music Connected event – the UK's largest digital music conference taking place on Wednesday 27th April at London's historic Glaziers Hall.
Posted on: 07/04/2016 Categories: News from RotD
Marking the start of Nando's Music Exchange, a facilitation and collaboration of established and emerging talent, UK and South African artists Example and Muzi support with masterclass session
Nando's today announces a unique two-year partnership with the Roundhouse, which will focus on supporting up-and-coming young musicians, whilst providing industry support and mentors.
Posted on: 03/09/2015 Categories: News from RotD
Marking the start of Nando's Music Exchange, a facilitation and collaboration of established and emerging talent, UK and South African artists Example and Muzi support with masterclass session
Nando's today announces a unique two-year partnership with the Roundhouse, which will focus on supporting up-and-coming young musicians, whilst providing industry support and mentors.
Posted on: 03/09/2015 Categories: News from RotD
EMI Production Music is taking the innovative step of declaring an amnesty of all sampling declarations (past and present) from its extensive back catalogue of some of the most iconic production music libraries of all time.
The leading production music business, which is a division of Sony/ATV Music Publishing, launches the amnesty today (September 1) with the aim of encouraging new sample requests from its broad catalogue as well as ensuring already existing samples are properly licensed.
Whether...
Posted on: 01/09/2015 Categories: News from RotD
There's never any shortage of blue-sky thinking about how the music industry can or should fix its apparently broken business. Whilst we tend to instantly discount any suggestions which start from a perspective of thinking that the music industry is a single, cohesive business – or indeed a broken one - a number of recent think pieces have stimulated some really interesting debate.
Chief amongst these thought-provokers was Berklee ICE's recent ReThink Music report.
Posted on: 01/09/2015 Categories: News from RotD
The Government is working with the UK music industry, BBFC and digital service providers like Vevo and YouTube to take further action to protect children from viewing inappropriate videos on the internet.
Many children have easy access to music videos online and some parents are rightly concerned that some of these contain imagery or lyrics not appropriate for a young audience.
In October 2014 a Government-backed pilot to introduce age ratings for online music videos was launched...
Posted on: 01/09/2015 Categories: News from RotD
Kobalt Music Publishing (KMP) announced today that it has completed a new deal with LAVA Music Publishing, the company founded by renowned U.S. label head, Jason Flom. Under the new agreement, KMP will provide exclusive worldwide publishing administration, synchronization and licensing rights in addition to creative services. New signings following the deal include songwriters Scott Stevens and Max Matluck and LAVA Records' newest priority signing, Maty Noyes.
Posted on: 21/05/2015 Categories: News from RotD
Omnifone® today announces that it is powering Q.SIC's innovative new commercial streaming music service. Utilising MusicStation, Omnifone's industry leading music cloud Q.SIC delivers commercially licensed digital music solutions to retail and hospitality businesses throughout Australia.
Posted on: 21/05/2015 Categories: News from RotD
Speaking at the Vote For Music Keynote session at The Great Escape in Brighton, Martin Goldschmidt, Managing Director of the Cooking Vinyl Group explained: "The tax breaks that currently exist to help the music industry actually give the tax break to private investors. As exists for other creative industries, why not also have a scheme that gives the break directly to music?" Support would be best targeted as a tax break for recorded music production. Many of the tax breaks offered to film,...
Posted on: 21/05/2015 Categories: News from RotD
BMG is pleased to announce it has acquired pioneering US metal and hard rock label Rise Records. Rise – home to artists including Of Mice & Men, Memphis May Fire, Crown The Empire and The Devil Wears Prada – was founded by Craig Ericson in 1991. Using digital media it has become the center of a growing underground community with its YouTube video channel boasting more than 1.4m subscribers, more than major labels many times its size. Current releases include White Noise by PVRIS,...
Posted on: 21/05/2015 Categories: News from RotD
Organised by PrimaveraPro 2015, it will take place on the 27th May at the MACBA (Barcelona)
Independent labels will meet at the first Independents Labels International Congress, organised by PrimaveraPro in collaboration with APECAT (Association of Catalan labels), Impala (European Association of Independent Labels), UFI (Independent Phonographic union) and WIN (Worldwide Independent Network), the main associations of the sector. It will take place on the 27th May within the framework...
Posted on: 15/04/2015 Categories: News from RotD
MTV, the UK's most popular music television network and Relentless Energy Drink have today revealed that music chat show, Relentless Ultra Presents Soundchain, will be returning for a second series, this time fronted by one of the most sought after television and radio presenters in the UK, Nick Grimshaw.
The 6 x 30-minute series will once again see a number of high profile acts exploring what inspires them as artists and who they have in turn influenced. Previous acts to have appeared...
Posted on: 15/04/2015 Categories: News from RotD
GLOBAL DIGITAL MUSIC REVENUES MATCH PHYSICAL FORMAT SALES FOR FIRST TIME
· Digital music revenues now on a par with physical globally
· Global industry revenues down 0.4 per cent to US$14.97 billion in 2014
· Subscription services at the heart of the music portfolio business
Revenues from digital music services match those from physical format sales for the first time, according to IFPI's Digital Music Report, published...
Posted on: 15/04/2015 Categories: News from RotD
Deal includes "Wrecking Ball" and songs with Madonna and Rihanna
Sony/ATV Music Publishing has today announced it has extended its long-term worldwide deal with hit songwriter and recording artist MoZella.
The new agreement covers MoZella's entire songwriting catalog alongside future works and includes the global hit "Wrecking Ball" by Miley Cyrus and songs recorded by acts such as Madonna, Rihanna, One Direction and Kelly Clarkson.
Posted on: 15/04/2015 Categories: News from RotD
Live music industry consultation launched by songwriter and composer organisation
PRS for Music has today announced that it will be running an eight week consultation on the terms of its Popular Music Concerts Tariff ('Tariff LP'). The tariff is applied to ticketed live popular music events such as concerts and festivals.
Posted on: 15/04/2015 Categories: News from RotD
Globally influential independent music publisher and rights manager, The Bicycle Music Company, today announced that Jake Wisely has been promoted to Chief Executive Officer. Formerly Bicycle co-president, Wisely will now oversee all music publishing, licensing and rights management for The Bicycle Music Company and sister company Concord Music Group, reporting to group CEO, Scott Pascucci.
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Posted on: 24/02/2015 Categories: News from RotD
Now in its thirteenth year, Music Connected 2015 - the UK's leading digital music conference - returns on Thursday 9th April, as leading labels and music companies descend on historic Glaziers Hall to meet the key players in UK digital music.
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Posted on: 24/02/2015 Categories: News from RotD
Thirteen more music acts are set to receive support to sell UK music abroad and promote their careers overseas, Business Secretary Vince Cable announced today.
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Posted on: 24/02/2015 Categories: News from RotD
Through the Music Export Growth Scheme, each artist will be able to put the funding towards tour support, overseas venue costs, international travel costs, marketing, promotion and PR costs. These factors can prevent an artist from being able to take that step from established UK musician to commercially successful international act.
Good Groove Songs, the management, production and publishing house owned and run by former Radio One DJ Gary Davies, has inked an exclusive deal with independent...
Posted on: 24/02/2015 Categories: News from RotD
UK Music, the umbrella body for the commercial music industry, has launched an industry wide manifesto ahead of the UK 2015 General Election, aimed at all political parties and policy makers. The document offers ideas and initiatives that would support and grow the music economy in the UK.
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Posted on: 24/02/2015 Categories: News from RotD
Merlin and Pandora have announced a comprehensive partnership designed to help independent labels and artists grow the audiences they reach and the royalties they receive. (RotD)
BMI's president and CEO has said "the time has come to modernise the BMI consent decree", suggesting the PRO wants to give its members the ability to withdraw their digital rights. The proposal comes...
Posted on: 07/08/2014 Categories: News from RotD
Now that Live Nation have purchased Dublin's O2 outright, what can we expect next from the live music behemoth? (Irish Times)
Analysis of Live Nation's 2013 results, which saw revenue up 11% to $6.5 billion. (Billboard)
In the...
Posted on: 02/03/2014 Categories: News from RotD
US based agency Paradigm is to acquire a 50% stake in the London based CODA Agency. (RotD)
The German market for music sales has seen a small increase in revenue in 2013, after 15 years of contraction. (Billboard)
Guy...
Posted on: 24/01/2014 Categories: News from RotD
Edith Bowman is to lose her Saturday morning on 6 Music in the latest schedule changes at the digital BBC station.
From Saturday 2 November, Huey Morgan moves from Sunday afternoons to Saturday mornings, 10am-1pm.
Huey Morgan says: "I can't wait to get down and spread the love to my listeners with the coolest way to start their weekends."
Edith, who has hosted the Saturday morning show since November 2012, will continue to work with 6 Music with occasional specials planned...
Posted on: 08/10/2013 Categories: News from RotD
When HMV went into liquidation in January, many people assumed that was the end for nationwide chains of music stores. But in April, HMV was bought out for an estimated £50 million by Hilco. This week, HMV has re-opened its flagship store at 363 Oxford Street. Here, Hilco chief executive and HMV chairman Paul McGowan explains HMV's future.
When Hilco bought HMV in April, lots of business people told us we were making a mistake. We were told nobody wanted to buy physical music any...
Posted on: 08/10/2013 Categories: News from RotD
Next year's Glastonbury festival sold out in record time on Sunday as hundreds of thousands of music fans scrambled to book their place.
Around 120,000 tickets, costing £210 each, were snapped up in one hour and 27 minutes, according to organisers, who said more than one million people had registered for the event.
Michael and Emily Eavis, who put on the festival, said in a statement: "We have, once again, been blown away by the numbers of people who were hoping to join us...
Posted on: 08/10/2013 Categories: News from RotD
WHEN the Mobo Awards return to Glasgow this month, some of the runners, ushers, and set up and breakdown crew will be young people working for free.
The event has faced harsh criticism for this. When the Mobos advertised for unpaid staff back in 2011, the union Bectu issued a sternly worded press release accusing it of exploitation. Result: the advert was withdrawn and the Mobos announced all its workers would be paid after all, claiming "the wording on the advert was not approved by management...
Posted on: 08/10/2013 Categories: News from RotD
Manchester's Warehouse Project is set to implement the UK's first club-endorsed drug testing initiative after the death of a man who attended the club on Saturday night.
Nick Bonnie, of Gloucestershire, is thought to have died after ingesting what police believe to be contaminated pills sold as ecstasy.
Due to launch on October 12, the new Home Office-funded system will see a trailer set up outside the venue where tests will be carried out on substances either confiscated by security...
Posted on: 08/10/2013 Categories: News from RotD
The promoter of The Rolling Stones' summer concerts, where tickets were sold for as much as £300, has said his shows are under-priced and warned fans they will need to pay more for spectacular performances.
Rob Hallett, president of international touring at AEG, the company which staged the British Summer Time concerts in Hyde Park, said the flourishing secondary ticket market, where fans can re-sell spare tickets at a huge profit, indicated the box office price charged by promoters...
Posted on: 03/09/2013 Categories: News from RotD
You could pay hundreds of dollars to see Paul McCartney and the Red Hot Chili Peppers, or you could see them for free. More music festivals are livestreaming their concerts without charge as the ultimate marketing tool. For music fans, it's a chance to rock out from the best seats in the house.
The summer music festival season is in full swing. In San Francisco, that means the three-day Outside Lands music festival, which this year featured the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Nine Inch Nails, Vampire...
Posted on: 03/09/2013 Categories: News from RotD
Ticketmaster president Nathan Hubbard has exited the Live Nation-owned ticketing company.
Sources confirm to Billboard.biz that Hubbard will step down as Ticketmaster president in a deal to be finalized in the coming days. Ticketmaster North America president Jared Smith will assume the position. Apparently the transition has been in the works for some time.
The Wall Street Journal, citing various people close to the situation, says Hubbard's departure could've resulted from a...
Posted on: 03/09/2013 Categories: News from RotD
London's O2 has replaced the Proud2 nightclub on its premises with a 'blank canvas' venue.
The club space was originally opened in 2008 as Matter before reopening as Proud2 after a £1 million refurbishment in 2011 when it was bought out by the Proud Galleries group. It will now be known as Building Six.
London Warehouse Events have joined forces with The O2 for the 3000 capacity club space in the Greenwich venue, which also houses the The O2 Arena and IndigO2. Building Six...
Posted on: 03/09/2013 Categories: News from RotD
In its heyday, thousands attended to hear the likes of Leonard Cohen, Kanye West and Lily Allen perform.
But the end seems nigh for the Big Chill after promoters told the Hereford Times this week that there are no plans for the festival to return next year.
Officially no one from Festival Republic, the team behind the Big Chill, will be drawn on the long-term future of the party that brought music lovers from across the country to the grounds of Eastnor Castle.
But with...
Posted on: 03/09/2013 Categories: News from RotD