Poppy Reid

The increase in the global uptake of streaming and subscription services lead to digital music revenues becoming on par with physical in 2014. The global recorded music industry in 2014 was broadly…

Thy Art Is Murder, the Sydney-based band who made ARIA Albums chart history in 2012 as the first extreme metal band to ever reach the Top 40, have signed to local independent UNFD for Australia and…

Jay Z s Project Panther Bidco has made its first big structural splash with the reported axing of 25 staffers at the rap mogul s recently acquired streaming service Tidal, and the departure of its…

A report by the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research suggests Sydney s CBD and Kings Cross have become safer since the lockout laws were instated. The Bureau s Director Dr Don Weatherburn…

Norway will be the first country to shut down FM radio. Beginning January 11 2017, Norway will become the first country to switch over exclusively to Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB) as a national…

The music streaming service which launched in Beta on the Gold Coast in 2010, has reached a milestone of 10 million users. Over the past 22 weeks, Guvera has welcomed 35,000 users a day, growing it…

Music publisher and label Make Millions Music is suing Iggy Azalea s rights-holders over an alleged breach of contract, dating back to 2009. According to US court documents filed in Texas on…

Megan Washington has become the second artist representative on Phonographic Performance Company of Australia s (PPCA) Board. Joining Lindy Morrisson OAM, drummer for The Go-Betweens, Washington…

Just two weeks after Jay Z s recently acquired streaming service Tidal broke into the US iPhone Top 20 Download chart, it has fallen out of the top 700. Today Tidal s app sits at #788 in the US, and…

APRA AMCOS has launched a new online reporting system that will improve services to its members. The copyright collective has now launched OPUS (Online Portal for Uploading Songs) for its members who…

WJO Distribution, the independent music company heavily aligned with country music, has partnered with Universal Music Australia. The partnership marks a new phase for WJO, which will for the first…

The President of the German Music Publishers Association (DMV) has called out streaming services over the cut they pay to rights holders. Speaking at DMV s Annual General Meeting in Wiesbaden this…