Here’s all the music industry news you need to know today.

EMC today unveil the final program of speakers and expert sessions set to visit Sydney next week for Global Cities After Dark. Watch the speaker announce below

Featuring musical mentor, Guy Sebastian, new ABC show Don’t Stop the Music follows one underprivileged Australian school’s journey to musical literacy. – via ABC

Bruno Mars, Keith Urban and Luis Fonsi‘s Despacito were the biggest winners at the American Music Awards. Niall Horan won New Artist and Coldplay won Tour of the Year. – via Billboard

Warner/Chappell Music has signed a deal with Matt Clifford, long time musical collaborator with Sir Mick Jagger and touring keyboard player with The Rolling Stones.

Veteran publicist, Chris Maric, joins Golden Robot Records – via GRR

Coalition Talent, the live booking and entertainment agency, has announced a wide-ranging joint venture agreement with Ministry of Sound. – via RotD

Universal Music Group has a value of more than $40bn, Vivendi’s CEO thinks. – via Reuters

Taylor Swift’s Reputation sold 84,000 in the UK, split evenly between physical and digital downloads, to top the Album chart. – via OCC

Former teen idol David Cassidy is fighting for his life after reportedly suffering multiple organ failure. – via MoS

Country star Mel Tillis has died aged 85 from respiratory failure. – via Sun

Katy Perry has been ‘banned indefinitely’ from China, following several politically controversial costumes in 2015 and 2014. – via NME

Apple paid $3.3bn in Q4 dividends as its market valuation grew $162bn larger than Google. – via AppleInsider

This article originally appeared on The Industry Observer, which is now part of The Music Network.