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A new report from trade group UK Music called Wish You Were Here reported that live music and music tourism contributed 3.7 billion (A$7.11 billion) to the British economy in 2015 up 7% from the year…

Australian-owned digital music distribution company Valleyarm has relaunched this week with new owners and a new company name. VA Digital has welcomed new chairman and shareholder Andrew Randall, a…

PRESS RELEASE: Songwriters who play live are encouraged to submit their APRA AMCOS Performance Reports by 31 July to get paid for their work. Last year, more than $4.5 million in royalties was…

Flume s Skin has become a major breakthrough in the United States. Having already debuted at #8 there on the Billboard Top 100, it has entered the Dance/Electronic Albums chart at #1. It has had the…

Australia s obsession with Seven s House Rules saw Nine Network s The Voice slip down last night to its lowest figures this season while Nine s Adele s Live In London, which followed immediately…

PRESS RELEASE: On September 8, 1965, when producers Bob Rafelson and Bert Schneider placed a classified ad in The Hollywood Reporter seeking 4 insane boys, they had no idea that they were about to…

PRESS RELEASE: 40 songs have been chosen from a record-breaking 450 entries as the finalists in the 2016 NT Song of the Year Awards. More than 50 Australian music industry leaders were involved in…

Private equity tycoon Guy Hands told a London court yesterday that he lost 200m of his personal fortune on his ruinous deal to purchase EMI. On the third day of the trial between Hands, his buyout…

Justin Bieber has become the first act to hit 100 million streams of a song in the UK, the Official Charts Company confirmed. His Sorry, the second of three #1 singles from his Purpose album, has…

Image: Kate Ceberano The music and media communities were represented among the 771 Australians honoured in the Queen s Birthday Honours List. The highest acclaim was accorded to Rhoda Roberts,…