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Is global audio hardware company Bose about to launch its own music streaming service, to take on Apple s Beats Music? Rumours are rife after the company, best known in Australia for its speakers and…

Kobalt Label Services has entered the digital catalogue market in a deal with UK alt-rock band Placebo. KLS are calling the agreement a new kind of deal , where they will distribute and monetise the…

PRESS RELEASE: The new flagship Nike Sydney CBD store, which recently re-opened in Pitt Street, is the first store in Australia to be inviting shoppers to Shazam whilst in-store. Nike will be using…

:: ONLINE LYRIC LICENSING - PART ONE Bob Aird, Managing Director of Universal Music Publishing Australia, says that UMPG didn t assess Australian infringing lyric sites in the manner the NMPA did in…

Last Friday, INXS were presented with a plaque for Quadruple Platinum sales of INXS: The Very Best. While the year isn t over yet, the record is the #1 selling artist album in Australia for 2014…

Adelaide native Sia and New Zealand artist Lorde have each been nominated for US film and television awards, The Golden Globes. Both nominated in the Best Original Song category, Lorde s wrote Yellow…

Scott B. Murphy, who founded the Australian Music Prize, has launched an American version called the American Music Prize. The US award is for debut albums only, for those released between August 1,…

Sony Music Australia broadens out with Mass Appeal Records Sony Music Entertainment Australia this week releases one of the hottest hip hop albums of the year, Run The Jewels 2, through a team-up…

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Dainty Group International has acquired what it describes as a cornerstone investment in live music sponsorship and ticketing company BangTango. The size of the stake is not known. Dainty and…