Listen to every track we featured in CMU’s ‘Approved’ slot in 2025 in our Spotify playlist wrapping up all our featured ...

As 2025 ended and 2026 began we had the customary flurry of stats from various music industry sources, providing some ...

The European Union will this year draft a new Digital Fairness Act that seeks to “strengthen protection and digital fairness ...

With the Christmas break now well and truly over and forgotten, here are five key developments in the music business since ...

AI will remain a major talking point in the music industry throughout 2026. Pretty much all the big copyright questions and ...

Earlier this year DSW Shoe Warehouse filed a lawsuit against Sony Music asking a judge to rule it didn’t infringe the major’s copyrights by putting pop music into its TikTok videos. That sneakily ...

!K7 Music founder Horst Weidenmüller has been presented with an Outstanding Contribution Award by pan-European indie label grade group IMPALA, recognising !K7’s nearly four decades in business, as ...

Reports have been circulating this week that Dua Lipa sacked either her manager or her agent after they signed a letter objecting to Kneecap playing Glasto. It was WME agent David Levy that signed the ...

Budweiser, the king of carbonated disappointment in a can, is proud that it’s found an apparent loophole that means it doesn’t need to pay for “music right$” when harnessing “the most iconic songs in ...

A New York music rights company has sued Dionne Warwick, seeking to enforce past contracts that grant it 25-50% of her royalty income. It says it helped Warwick handle legal and admin issues, boosting ...

A Roundhouse show by Primal Scream last week was criticised over controversial images shown during a performance of their song ‘Swastika Eyes’, which critics say were antisemitic. On the back of that ...

A new study from Bulgarian trade group ANMIP says that Spotify’s royalty payment threshold, introduced last year, disproportionately affects artists and labels in smaller markets such as Bulgaria, ...