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Miami s Ultra Music Festival will make its Australian debut with a single show at Sidney Myer Music Bowl in Melbourne on February 24 next year. It will be followed in 2019 with the full scale…

Sony/ATV will continue to administer the worldwide music publishing rights to some of Michael Jackson’s best-known songs, after extending their deal with the singer s Mijac Music. Jackson’s…

The Estate of Michael Jackson and Sony/ATV Music Publishing have today announced a long-term extension of Sony/ATV's global administration of Michael Jackson's Mijac Music catalogue. Terms of the…

Just yesterday we spoke about Gotye has not received a single cent in YouTube royalties, due to his decision not to monetise his channel, but now it's been revealed just how much one of music's…

It's been six years now since the world was introduced to Gotye's 'Somebody I Used To Know'. The track, which featured New Zealand singer Kimbra, was an international success, winning Gotye ARIA,…

Eight of out Top 10 people on Twitter are music artists. That's because artists and music fans alike use the platform for discovery, to view content and to engage with the conversation around that…

Kanye West, his album The Life Of Pablo, and the concept of what constitutes an individual work of art, are currently the subjects of a proposed class action, with claims Tidal and West engaged in…

In the most high-profile Australian case of "just leave it the fuck alone" since INXS decided to replace their obviously irreplaceable vocalist, Divinyls members Mark McEntee, Richard Harvey and Rick…

The RIAA, Pandora and SoundExchange are among a chorus of industry bodies and music companies who’ve welcomed a new push in the U.S. to establish the copyright in all sound recordings beyond 1972.…

Let’s say you’ve been gigging for a while now. You’re using your brother’s hand-me-down amp, lugging your gear from pub to market to wedding, sleeping in the station wagon, and living off McStuff.…