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Here's all the music industry news you need to know this morning. At 5pm Saturday 29 July in Brisbane, Katie Noonan, Kate Ceberano and Eurovision star Isaiah will perform John Farnham’s powerful…

Just yesterday we spoke about Gotye has not received a single cent in YouTube royalties, due to his decision not to monetise his channel, but now it's been revealed just how much one of music's…

Times they are a-changing. Just last week, 'Gangam Style' was dethroned by 'See You Again' as the most-watched video on YouTube. Now, 'Despacito' has knocked 'Sorry' off the top spot as the most…

The Birth Of A Giant “Daniel just saw the opportunities of streaming music before anyone else.” – Mark Zuckerberg on Spotify’s Daniel Ek, The New Yorker. You wouldn’t think much of Daniel Ek if you…

Like most people who work in the music industry, I have written feverish fan fiction regarding the movements at major corporations - crazy 'what-if' tales about the CEO of Sony Music suddenly moving…

Let's be honest, Spotify does most of its business in the camp of artists and playlists that usually skew a bit more contemporary than The Beatles or Panic! At The Disco, but there are still plenty…

Spotify just can’t stay out of headlines... or away from "fake artists" stories. The world’s most popular subscription music service was accused last week of tapping producers to create tunes under…

As we reported in March, Facebook's music strategy, which was revealed by way of a handful of interestingly-worded job ads, raised a number of red flags. Lars Brandle noted that Facebook would have…

CD-Rs are old hat, MP3s are so last decade. The fastest-rising piracy plague in the U.K. is stream-ripping, a blight “overwhelmingly overshadowing all other illegal music services,” according to a…

When SoundCloud announced it was laying off 40 staffers just over a week after Pandora shuttered its local operations, it didn't offer emerging industry figures much confidence about the local job…