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Six months after The Beatles music launched on streaming services, their streams have passed the 1 billion mark. A team-up with the Cirque du Soleil also sees the release of a new video based around…

Image: Screen shot from Eminem’s Apple-funded Phenomenal music video As the battle between streaming services for subscribers centres more around content exclusives, Apple Music has found one way to…

After the physical version of Adele s third album 25 set new sales records around the world (20 million currently), it now looks like it’s changing the goalposts on streaming services. Seven months…

BMG has signed Roger Waters to a long-term administration deal to represent his songs in the Pink Floyd catalogue. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, or which territories it covers. Waters was…

Stunning sets by Adele and Coldplay and a return to the spotlight by Jeff Lynne s ELO at the UK s Glastonbury Festival at Worthy Farm helped deliver record viewing figures for the BBC. BBC TV and…

Image: Glastonbury festival, 2014 As reported in TMN last Thursday, the UK music industry was apprehensive about the European Union Referendum. A poll by Music Week found that 91% of respondents…

R B performer Usher and rising Ghanian-American rapper Vic Mensa have signed with Justin Bieber and Kanye West s manager Scooter Braun for management. Braun s company SB Projects also includes Black…

Image: UK artist Paloma Faith Later today (June 23), the UK will hold a national referendum Brexit on whether it should leave the European Union. Those wanting it to remain as one of the EU s 28…

Led Zeppelin s Stairway To Heaven trial in Los Angeles has continued, despite their lawyer asking Judge R Gary Klausner a few days before to dismiss it before it went before a jury. Peter Anderson…

Things are looking up for Spotify. The Swedish music streaming service claimed overnight that its active user base has now passed the 100 million mark. Most listen to it for free. But Spotify claimed…

The civil trial in Los Angeles over the similarity of the opening sequence of Led Zeppelin s Stairway To Heaven and US band Spirit s 1968 instrumental Taurus, could be declared a mistrial on a…

The once-pioneering British festival promoter All Tomorrow’s Parties is closing after a series of payment disputes, cancellations and bad publicity. The latest issue was earlier this week when M m,…