Poppy Reid

The Australian music industry s championing of a Government reform to help curb digital piracy will be noted in the upcoming announcement of the new Copyright Amendment (Online Infringement) Bill.…

UK chart topper Ed Sheeran is launching his own label imprint and has announced its first signing. Revealed exclusively in Sydney last night on Nova during Smallzy s Surgery , Sheeran said the label,…

In the same week BBC Trust cut Radio 1 s live sessions from 250 a year to 160, and reduced its quota for live event coverage to permit savings, Radio 2 has come under scrutiny for its racially…

Wheels have been set in motion to re-design streaming models with Universal apparently leveraging its current negotiations with Spotify. The recorded label industry is currently questioning the…

INXS TV mini-series INXS: Never Tear Us Apart is up for six TV Week Logie Awards - the Australian television industry awards which is now in its 57th year. The two-part telemovie, which was screened…

Music Victoria s CEO Patrick Donovan doesn t stop. Following a momentous 2014 which saw the introduction of law reforms Agent of Change, Live Music Census and the White Paper (which lead to the new…

Channel [V] is launching a new music show for every night of the working week. Starting on Monday April 20 at 9pm, the subscription music channel will launch five genre-based chart shows running from…

Mashd N Kutcher, a Brisbane duo with multi-instrumentalist backgrounds, has amassed over 1 million views on YouTube for their latest mashup experiment. Published on Friday (April 9), the clip saw the…

Vevo is the latest streaming service to launch on PlayStation in Australia. Following Spotify s launch on PlayStation on March 30 - as part of its partnership with PlayStation Music to take over from…

TMN has revived Hot Seat to offer our young industry subscribers an insight into what it takes to make it in the music business. With more than three decades of experience, Dave Aron, multi-Platinum…

Christian band Hillsong United are one of the highest pirated music groups in Australia. That s according to Hillsong Church s publishing arm Hillsong Music Publishing and its local label Hillsong…

In October 2013 the Queensland Government announced a 28% cut to QMusic funding from 2014-2016, however last year the music industry association reported its largest surplus yet. For 2014 the State…