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When Spotify negotiated a reduced royalty rate with Universal Music Group in April - believed to shift from 55% to 52% - Apple was watching closely. According to Bloomberg, Apple is seeking similar…

Yes, it's actually happening - Paul McCartney is touring Australia and New Zealand this year for the first time since 1993. The music legend and former Beatle made the announcement during a live Q A…

Sony Music Australia is drilling deeper into artist management, concerts promotion and live events through an initiative that brings together two of the Australian music industry’s top power players.…

Of all the '90s bands you'd have thought might spin a somewhat unexpected radio hit into a two decade-strong indie career, Hanson would sit just above M2M and slightly below Crash Test Dummies. They…

Sofar Sounds, the global movement of loungeroom and backyard gigs, is hosting a special event in support of Amnesty International this September. More than 200 cities will take part in the…

Here's all the music industry news you need to know this morning. Apple has hired a couple of senior TV executives for what’s described as “newly created positions overseeing all aspects of video…

18-year-old Brisbane artist Mallrat has left Create/Control to sign with Dew Process / UMA in Australia. The deal was announced this morning alongside the news of her first international label…

With Spotify's 2016 financials out in the open as of last week and showing increasingly heavy losses, Spotify is no doubt looking at every avenue it can to increase ad revenue, and it seems that the…

Billboard pundits predict that Lorde is on track to score her first No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 this weekend. The industry magazine forecasts that Melodrama should sell 80,000 to 90,000…

MGM Distribution's Beth Deady, Skegss' manager Aaron Girgis, celebrated author, publicist and promoter Stuart Coupe, Bluesfest Director Peter Noble and Seventh Street Media's own CEO and founder Luke…