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Sean ’Diddy’ Combs, Beyonc and Drake were high on US business magazine Forbes annual Highest Paid Musicians list for 2017. Diddy was the #1 earner with $130 million between June 1, 2016 and June 1,…

Feature album: Petit Biscuit - Presence [Independent] - 7x albums ADDS: Goat Girl - Cracker Drool [Rough Trade/Remote Control] Jarami - Hear This [Icky Sticky] Jesswar - Savage [Golden Era Records]…

YouTube is set to hit the ground running in 2018, with the company reportedly ready to launch a new paid music streaming service as early as March. Bloomberg reports that YouTube’s new service, with…

Apple is later today today expected to announce that it is buying UK music recognition smartphone app Shazam, for $US400 million. The $50 million-a-year British app, launched in 2009, was an instant…

Sweden s Spotify and China s Tencent Music Entertainment Group (TME) are creating a larger global footprint for themselves as each are expected to announce IPOs in early 2018. Late on Friday night,…

SONGS Music Publishing has sold its catalogue to Kobalt Capital Ltd (KCL) for a reported $160 million. KCL operates separately to the Kobalt Music Business, but the SONGS repertoire will now be…

Decades ago, if you heard a song and wanted to know who it was by, you basically had to hope against hope that you were with someone who had an encyclopaedic music knowledge, or that your ability to…

We can exclusively reveal that Nightlife Music are the Official Partners of the Australian Music Vault. Created by Arts Centre Melbourne, The Australian Music Vault shares the stories of Aussie music…

The recording industry has welcomed the government’s decision not to extend so-called "safe harbour" protection to the likes of Google and Facebook. But the battle for a fairer copyright environment…

The NSW Government has extended the last call for takeaways from 10pm until 11pm, whenever Christmas Eve falls on a Sunday. In a miraculous piece of luck, that's exactly what's happening this year,…