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WMG launches fan-driven, vinyl-only record label & more

Here's all the music industry news you need to know this morning. National Community Radio Awards Entries Open - via CBAA Revenues for BMG rose by 12.2% to €416m in 2016. The employee total grew by…

By Poppy ReidPublished Mar 30, 2017
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Here's all the music industry news you need to know this morning.

National Community Radio Awards Entries Open - via CBAA

Revenues for BMG rose by 12.2% to €416m in 2016. The employee total grew by around 20% last year to 600 - via Billboard

Chuck Berry Public Memorial Service to Be Held in April - via Billboard

Facebook will launch group chatbots at F8 - via TechCrunch

Lee Brice signs US performance rights deal with SESAC - via MBW

SoundCloud Go and Go+ have launched in the Netherlands. - via Hypebot

Twitter’s live streaming app Periscope gets an analytics dashboard - via TechCrunch

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Warner Music Group has launched a fan-driven, vinyl-only record label: Run Out Groove. Each month, fans will vote on the record they want pressed from a trio of selections. its first fan-chosen release was a new collection from Echo & The Bunnymen, It’s All Live Now - via Billboard

Global hires Live Nation’s Debbie Ward after aggressive UK festival acquisition run - via MBW

Facebook opens up 360-degree live streaming to all - via TechCrunch

Music production and DJing company Native Instruments has snapped up startup MetaPop, appointing its founder, former Beatport CEO Matthew Adell, as its chief digital officer. - via MusicAlly

Warner Music UK has launched a label imprint called Black Diamond Records, headed by David Olusegun and Derek Edmund Ojofeitimi, founders of Black Diamond Music Group. - via RotD

The recording console used to record Pink Floyd’s 1972 classic Dark Side Of The Moon sold at auction for US$1,807,500. - via Billboard

Lana Del Rey Teases Her New Album By Suggesting She Has Become an Optimistic Ghost living in the Hollywood Sign - via Vulture

 

 

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