Music Network

TMN s charts team predict the hottest new music breaking over the next quarter. From emerging acts to established artists, we ll give you our industry tips, based on forthcoming album releases, past…

Sony Music Australia has picked up distribution for high flying US indie label and management company Rostrum Records. Based in Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Rostrum has sold 9 million singles and almost…

Western Australia s peak music association WAM this morning announced that recording of the ground-breaking WA indigenous project Sounds Of The Pilbara II: Songs In Language is completed. In a…

Latest reports from the United States are that Apple s upcoming music streaming service will drop the Beats branding, and go out as Apple Music. It may also include social networking tools for…

One of Adelaide s legendary radio broadcasters, David Daisy Day has passed at 63 after a lengthy battle against illness. But that didn t stop him from undertaking with gusto recent duties as CEO of…

Do music consumers stop listening to new music when they hit the age of 33? That s a claim by a new study by the website Skynet Ebert, using US data from Spotify and of research company The Echo…

Western Australia s peak music association WAM has re-elected its President Al Taylor for a second term. Taylor, Group Managing Director of ad agency 303Lowe, comes from 30 years in marketing and…

Australia s copyright industries worth $111.4 billion The Economic Contribution of Australian Copyright Industries 2002-2014 report by the Australian Copyright Council (ACC) reveals that in 2014,…

Global smartphone brand Alcatel Onetouch became the first naming rights sponsor for Australia s Your Shot DJ Competition. The quest, now in its sixth year provides aspiring DJs the chance to learn…

Australian singer-songwriter (and now also a journalist) David Bentley is due for an extra burst of royalties from a 43-year-old song that s been picked up by A$AP Rocky and Mark Ronson. Bentley was…

The Presets are announced as keynote speakers for the third Feedback music industry conference aimed at 12 to 25-year-olds. They will discuss their career with triple j s Dom Alessio. Feedback is put…

Already reeling from the Federal Budget, the battling arts sector in WA received more bad news in the state budget. Recurrent arts funding remained almost static at about $25 million. Traditionally,…