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  • 2nd Feb 2012

    Industry Focus: Midem
    From Angry Birds to boo-hoo U2- read our handy summary of what has been discussed and announced at Midem in Cannes this week.
  • 2nd Feb 2012

    Blast off: The Great Escape 2012
    The Great Escape has confirmed its first acts for 2012 including Dry the River, Perfume Genius, Eagulls, Howler and a show at the Dome featuring Africa Express Soundsystem.
  • 2nd Feb 2012

    NME and XFM announce awards
    The nominees for the annual NME awards were announced this week by Zane Lowe on Radio One and include Lana Del Rey (pictured), Arctic Monkeys, Azealia Banks and Pulp.
  • 2nd Feb 2012

    Dipple to lead UK Music
    Jo Dipple has been confirmed as UK Music’s new Chief Executive, having acted in that position since the departure of Feargal Sharkey in November last year.
  • 25th Jan 2012

    Dotcom goes boom
    The following story is not for the faint hearted: It involves guns, illegal downloading, police raids and, perhaps worst of all a terrifying man who changed his surname to ‘Dotcom’. Read on for ‘Megaupload: the takedown’.Last week, the US Government moved in on Megaupload, one of the most notorious and dominant forces in file sharing. The founders now stand accused of cheating rights holders out of $500m alongside racketeering and money laundering.
  • 25th Jan 2012

    Live Music Bill is commons sense
    The Live Music Bill has been passed through the Commons and is now almost certain to become law, slashing the licensing red tape for small live music venues.
  • 25th Jan 2012

    IFPI: Digital up and streaming soars
    The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) has published a new report revealing an 8% growth in digital music revenues, with subscriptions to legal streaming sites increasing by 65% in 2011.The IFPI, who are essentially the global trade body for the music industry published their ‘Digital Music Report 2012’ this week, stating that worldwide digital revenues from music hit an estimated $5.2bn, climbing year on year by an encouraging 3% from 5% growth in 2010.
  • 24th Jan 2012

    Sound City to Take New York
    Sound City, the hugely respected 3-day international music, media and technology conference spreads its wings this March for New York Sound City.
  • 20th Jan 2012

    Is rock really in a hard place?

    Unless you’ve been on another planet for the last year (in which case, welcome back to economic meltdown, impending apocalypse and, even worse: Ed Sheeran), it should come as no surprise to hear that sales of pop albums have overtaken rock for the first time in seven years.
  • 20th Jan 2012

    AIM set sights on EMI sale
    The Association of independent Music (AIM) has launched a campaign appealing to the Government to seriously review the break-up and sale of EMI, saying that it would “undoubtedly concentrate the global music market still further into the hands of two dominant major companies – Universal and Sony”.
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