Christie Eliezer

Spotify is cracking down on the growing payola practice in major streaming services. This is where external curators of playlists are approached by companies to include certain songs and favourable…

Ed Sheeran has officially launched his Gingerbread Man Records in England, as a subsidiary of Warner Music UK. His plans for a label were first revealed while he was in Australia in March during an…

An anonymous survey of 50 top US music industry executives by Billboard magazine found that Taylor Swift is the artist they would sign if starting a label, but rap music and Tidal got the…

Kaz James/ Ivan Gough team-up gets global release Balearic house track Inside Your Arms, a collaboration between Australian DJ/producers Kaz James and Ivan Gough (half of L Tric), has a global…

Bruce Woodley of The Seekers has had court costs imposed on him by the Copyright Tribunal over the I Am Australian case, overturned by the Federal Court. Woodley (far left) and Pocketful of Tunes Pty…

20th Century Fox is moving to have a US$10 million copyright lawsuit against its popular Empire series dismissed. It s one of a series of court cases against the hip hop show which launched this year…

Tame Impala and KUČKA lead the nominations for the WA Music Awards with six nominations each. Pond followed with five, and Tired Lion and San Cisco with four. Coming in with three nominations are…

Shares for internet radio and music streaming service Pandora dropped by 15% (40 cents) last night after it reported an expected quarter loss of US$85.9 million. Its revenue of $311.6 million…