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Jamendo, the indie licensing platform and sync specialist, has tapped Musiio to tag it catalogue using artificial intelligence, The Industry Observer can exclusively reveal. Through the new…

Former Premier Artists agent Sean Simmons presses play on his new touring agency. Press Play Presents goes live this week with a roster including Mick Harvey (Nick Cave the Bad Seeds, PJ Harvey),…

Dirty Hit is open for business in Australia.The award-winning independent record label today (26th August) expands into Asia Pacific with an office in Sydney, led by former Sony Music Entertainment…

BTS’ new song is proving to be dynamite on streaming platforms. And it’s triggering some unexpected explosions. The K-pop superstars returned last Friday with ‘Dynamite,’ their first English-language…

Sounds Australia is helping make the world a smaller place with Global Music Match, a world-first buddy system for artists in these times of physical distancing. Launching today with 96…

ARIA CEO Dan Rosen and Splendour and Secret Sounds Group co-CEO Paul Piticco will represent the contemporary music industry on a new government-appointed taskforce to "steer the arts to recovery."…

Facebook has finally pressed the button on music videos. Over the weekend, the social giant rolled out shareable, licensed music videos for its users in the U.S. with global music video premieres…

Pollies are on notice. Ask permission for the songs played at your rallies or in campaigns, or else. The U.S.-based Artist Rights Coalition, a not-for-profit advocacy for the artist community, is…

ByteDance just might have engineered a ceasefire in the TikTok War. In quick-time, the short-form video platform has struck a US$200 million “Creator Fund” and announced a multi-year, global…

Bigsound is back, coronavirus be damned. Organisers of the annual music conference and showcase spectacular last week confirmed the news few of us were expecting, that Bigsound would go ahead in…