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In a move aimed at bolstering its paid user base in India, Spotify is introducing limitations on features available to free-tier users. These changes, reported by Music Ally on Monday (October 9), are arriving nearly five years after the platform launched in India in 2019. Free users will no longer be able to manually order songs or use functions like rewinding, or repeating […]

Growing up on North London’s Caledonian Road in the 1970s, Marc Williams spent a lot of time in church. Not an Every-Sunday-really-mum-do-we-have-to lot of time. No, this was a Not-even-Ned-Flanders-is-signing-up-for-this-crap lot of time. “All I remember is going to church. My mum would do five hours on a Saturday, six hours on a Sunday, five hours

The Capitol Records Tower cuts an impressive figure in the Hollywood sky. For Kieran Thurgood, Capitol Music Group’s Head of Global Marketing, walking up to the 13-storey HQ on his first day at work a decade ago was “one of the biggest pinch-me moments” in his career. “It’s such an iconic building,” he says. “There are

UK-headquartered Multimedia Music has acquired the complete film and TV music catalog of BMI composer of the year, Christopher Lennertz. Lennertz is known for his work on scores for films like Horrible Bosses, Sausage Party, Bad Moms, Smurfs: The Lost Village, Alvin and The Chipmunks, and Pitch Perfect 3, among others. He has also made significant contributions to TV series like The Boys, Lost

BMG has acquired the recordings catalog of Australia-based Dope Lemon from the project’s Platinum-selling, ARIA and APRA award-winning creator Angus Stone. The deal sees BMG acquire global rights to Dope Lemon’s three studio albums (2016’s Honey Bones, 2019’s Smooth Big Cat and 2022’s Rose Pink Cadillac) and the 2017 EP Hounds Tooth. This includes hits Marinade (certified Platinum), Rose Pink Cadillac (certified Gold), Uptown Folks (certified Gold), Home

US rapper NLE Choppa has been hit with a copyright infringement lawsuit over the track, Who TF Up In My Trap, from his 2020 album, Top Shotta. In a complaint filed with the US District Court for the Central District of California on Tuesday (October 3), West Coast rapper Rodney-O alleged that Who TF Up In My Trap infringes on

Anthem Entertainment has named Jason Klein as its permanent Chief Executive Officer amid a raft of other senior leadership appointments at the Canadian music rights and services company. Klein previously served as Senior Vice-President, Legal & Business Affairs and General Manager for Anthem’s Canadian operations. Klein has served as CEO since January, succeeding Helen Murphy,

The online retail giant confirmed to media that it’s shutting down Amp, the app it launched in 2022 that enables users to easily create live radio shows that listeners can call into. “We’ve made the difficult decision to close Amp,” Amazon said in a statement sent to media. “In creating Amp, we tried something that

The announcement arrived a year and a half after Epic (the maker of the hit video game Fortnite, and Unreal Engine) itself acquired Bandcamp – an online music store and direct-to-fan platform. Today (October 5), Songtradr has responded to a press release issued by US-based Bandcamp employees yesterday (October 4), which revealed that their union – Bandcamp United – had sent a

in a complaint filed with the US District Court for the Central District of California on Tuesday (October 3), West Coast rapper Rodney-O alleged that Who TF Up In My Trap infringes on the copyright of the 1987 rap track Everlasting Bass. “The composition of [Who TF Up In My Trap] substantially comprises the composition of Everlasting Bass and