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The A&R Awards (now just 15 days away!) has a brand new sponsor for 2023, with TikTok lending its rather famous name to the Independent Label of the Year category. Presented by Music Business Worldwide, the A&R Awards is the UK music industry’s most enjoyable night out of the year. It will take place at London’s Grand […]

European mobility service platform FREENOW has pledged to donate £1 (USD $1.20) for every ride to support grassroots live music venues. Under the Ride for Music campaign, FREENOW’s goal is to raise a guaranteed minimum of £200,000 (USD $243,000) to bolster venues hit hard by the cost-of-living crisis. This initiative targets venues that may not have access

Despite the price hikes at music streaming services in recent months, the gap between music and video streaming prices continues to grow. Even as all the major music streaming services have raised their prices in the past year or so (with Spotify bringing up the rear, and Deezer out ahead with two price hikes), they’ve been outdone by the

Management, record label and publishing company Funfair Records, founded by former Syco Managing Director Tyler Brown, has formed a marketing and distribution deal with artist services company AWAL. Backed by Coran Capshaw and James Sandom at Red Light Management, Funfair’s inaugural release, Lauren (I Can’t Stay Forever) by Oden & Fatzo achieved Silver certification in the UK, amassing 70 million

US and Brazil-based music creation platform Moises has unveiled an artificial intelligence-powered platform called Voice Studio that will allow vocalists to license their own voices and sell them to producers and content creators. Voice Studio will serve as a marketplace for AI-powered voice modeling, allowing vocalists to monetize their own voice models to other music makers. The

UK-born mobile ticketing platform DICE is expanding into Canada, launching in Toronto today (October 19). The move marks the company’s latest expansion in North America and follows DICE’s $65 million funding round led by MUSIC in August. DICE, which claims to be “the world’s largest independent music ticketing platform”, says that “millions of fans” use its platform to discover

If things had gone to plan, Alex Kennedy would have been an England rugby star.  He was a highly promising player for Henley Hawks – and his brother Nick made it all the way to the international side – but a serious knee injury saw Alex forced into playing retirement in his early twenties. As

Raised between Reykjavík and Washington, DC, and now based in Los Angeles, the Icelandic-Chinese singer-songwriter has been racking up streams and streaming records in the two years since signing a global recordings deal with AWAL (in 2021). Laufey released her debut full-length album, Everything I Know About Love, last year and became the most-streamed Jazz artist on Spotify in 2022.

“As a company, you need to have a purpose and you need to know where you’re going,” says PRS for Music CEO Andrea C. Martin, reflecting on her vision for the British PRO. Martin was appointed as CEO in 2019 and given charge of an organisation of 500 people across two London sites and three joint ventures, now representing

Universal Music Group, the world’s largest music rightsholder, just opened a new concept retail store in Japan that it says will be “dedicated to supporting music super-fans”. “Japanese music fans are globally known for their dedicated fandom and this store will only help to strengthen the connection between our artists and their fans,” said UMG