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Having been the cause of bubbling outrage among concert promoters in Australia, and the world, for over a decade now, the secondary ticketing business may have just met its match locally with the…

With exorbitant prices being charged by scalpers a current hot topic, UK ticket resale platform Twickets officially launched in Australia this morning. Twickets counters secondary tickets by enabling…

Image: The Bella Union SECURITY BEEFED UP AFTER MANCHESTER Although Australia s terror warning ranking stays the same, venue operators have been initiating some changes after the Manchester bombing…

More jobs have been axed and others created as part of ABC Managing Director Michelle Guthrie s plan to move away from management and support to content creation. The restructure, announced on March…

Photo: Aleyce Simmonds Australian independently owned and operated country music labels Checked Label Services and WJO Australia are expanding their physical distribution into the United States and…

Here's all the music industry news you need to know this morning. The Australian uncovered a leaked confidential document prepared by Facebook that revealed the company had offered advertisers the…

Seventh Street Media -- publishers of this fine industry publication, along with the likes of The Brag, Tone Deaf, and J Play -- have just launched the Don't Bore Us website, an expansion of the DBU…

Ed Sheeran s tour of New Zealand has already sold more than any other artist, with over 200,000 tickets snapped up earlier this week. But a post by promoter Frontier Touring suggests more shows could…

The global electronic music industry is now worth US$7.1 billion, 60% more than it was three years ago. This was according to figures released this week by strategy specialist Kevin Watson s 2016 IMS…

Ticket scalping has to be the single biggest issue on the lips of the music industry in 2017, with an argument to be made that it's the inevitable result of a deeply-flawed system, built around…