Complete Music Update19h
With the US record industry officially in recession can superpremium and superfans really save the major labels from streaming’s slowdown?
It’s stats season, and one of CMU’s favourite summaries of stats and trends - MIDiA’s ‘Recorded Music Market Shares’ - ...
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Rock or Metal? – 14 Bands Whose Genre Label We Argue About the Most
Today, we consider most "hair metal" bands hard rock bands that had a glamorous aesthetic in the '80s. But back then, people ...
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NewJeans: Court rules against embattled K-pop band days before headline show
A South Korean court has ruled against K-pop band NewJeans in its long-running dispute with record label Ador, upholding an injunction that temporarily prohibits the group from carrying out ...
J.B. Moore, Producer of Seminal Hip-Hop Records, Dies at 81
He was a magazine ad salesman when he and a colleague, Robert Ford, teamed with Kurtis Blow and helped break rap music into ...
Music Industry Moves: Eslabon Armado’s Pedro Tovar Inks Global Deal With Kobalt; ATC Group Ups Ric Salmon
Eslabon Armado’s Pedro Tovar has signed a global publishing deal with Kobalt; ATC Group promotes Ric Salmon as chief growth ...
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Badshah launches label Pentertainment 0075 with support from Universal Music India
Superstar India-based rapper Badshah has launched a new label called Pentertainment 0075. Continue to article... The label ...
Universal Music Group Asks to Dismiss Drake’s Federal Lawsuit, Blames Him for Losing Rap Battle to Kendrick Lamar
Lawyers for Universal Music Group say that Drake “provoked” his beef with Lamar and should be “accepting the loss like the ...
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Iggy Azalea slams Universal Music as “criminals” and the “scummiest company” which “actively takes advantage” of artists
Iggy Azalea is involved in a dispute with Universal Music over millions in allegedly unpaid royalties. She says she’ll be fine because she can afford lawyers, but the record company “does this to so ...
Chappell Roan’s Plea for Health Insurance Reveals Complicated Hurdles for Recording Artists
In most label deals, artists sign as independent contractors. And while SAG-AFTRA counts around 3,500 recording musicians ...
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Greed, gaslighting and NDAs: How record labels get rich while artists suffer
Record sales were at an all-time high in 2024, and Spotify paid out $10bn in royalties - but most of that money is going to ...
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How Top Dawg Entertainment Became the Current Most Powerful Label in Hip-Hop
Independent record labels have been the lifeblood of hip-hop over the last five decades, and no other rap label is currently ...
With the Top Artists, Global Scale, and Healthy Balance Sheet, Universal Music Is an Industry Titan
The evolution of the streaming business to an artist-centric model that pays the most popular music at a higher rate per stream will benefit the record labels, like Universal, which represents the ...