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In Canada: Reservoir CEO Golnar Khosrowshahi Discusses the Music Industry's Global Future
As the industry expands beyond its traditional strongholds, companies are racing toward emerging markets around the world where cultural influence is growing at a rapid pace. For Golnar Khosrowshahi, the founder and CEO of Reservoir Media, that…
Live Music Industry News Roundup
• Fix The Tix, a broad coalition of music industry stakeholders including NIVA and NITO, has called on Congress to strengthen the TICKET Act (Transparency in Charges for Key Events Ticketing). The group is pushing for more robust measures to…
Ed Sheeran: The Belfast music events run by teenagers
'It's really solidified that I want to go into a career in the music industry and my passion for music.' Putting on a live gig is no easy feat, but a group of teenagers in Belfast are doing just that. They are part of a programme called Volume…
It has solidified my passion for music' - the gigs run by teenagers
'It's really solidified that I want to go into a career in the music industry and my passion for music.' Anna is living out many teenager's dreams, playing with a bunch like-minded musicians and planning their own gigs. The 16-year-old is part of a…
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Why Is Fitness-Class Music So Terrible?
This is an edition of the newsletter Pulling Weeds With Chris Black, in which the columnist weighs in on hot topics in culture. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Thursday. Like most of you, I have spent countless hours inside gyms and…
Harry Styles lets the music - and the joy - take over
Harry Styles ' new LP feels like an event. Coming on the heels of the Grammy Award-winning “Harry's House,” “Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally” is an experimental tour-de-force, a pop smorgasbord that is part…
Gospel and Christian music: Singers praise new official UK chart
There's no shortage of famous quotes about how much music means to people. But ask singer-songwriter Laura Ehio why she decided to pick up a guitar and it goes even deeper. 'My journey as a Christian, I think that's the only thing I could ever…
Gospel and Christian music: Singers praise new official UK chart
Mollie Perella and Ian Murphy, BBC Newsbeat There's no shortage of famous quotes about how much music means to people. But ask singer-songwriter Laura Ehio why she decided to pick up a guitar and it goes even deeper. 'My journey as a Christian, I…
Andris Nelsons out as music director of Boston Symphony at end of 2026-27 season
Andris Nelsons is being forced out as music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra in the summer of 2027 after 13 seasons. The orchestra made an unusually blunt announcement Friday. “The decision to not renew his contract was made by the…
Apple Music will know let you know if you're listening to music made with AI
Apple Music will now let users know if they are listening to music that was made using AI. READ MORE: In the age of AI Oasis, there's no point being ordinary According to Music Business Worldwide, Apple shared an update with industry partners and…
'Monsters Inc. 3' in the Works at Pixar; New Originals Include 'Ono Ghost Market' and the Studio's First Musical
Boo! Pixar is developing a third movie in the popular “ Monsters Inc. ” franchise. The project was revealed in a lengthy Wall Street Journal profile that examined the inner workings at Pixar, as the animation studio debuts its latest…
Future of venue 'founded on the belief music can change the world
A multi-million pound project to expand a live music venue has kicked off in Merseyside. Future Yard, located on Argyle Street in Birkenhead, has already secured 95% of the £3m project to expand. The BUILD OUR FUTURE campaign is looking to…
Ty Dolla $ign is Getting Back To R&B with 'Girl Music Vol. 1
The main difference between R&B singers and rappers used to be the content of their music. Traditionally, R&B songs were associated with love, heartbreak, sensuality, and relationships, while hip-hop focused on the struggle, the come-up, money, and…
WME Co-Head of Contemporary Music Lucy Dickins Departs Agency
WME co-head of contemporary music Lucy Dickins is departing from the agency, according to a memo from WME Group co-chairman Christian Muirhead obtained by The Hollywood Reporter. Muirhead confirmed that Kirk Sommer, whose clients include…
Fantastically funny: Matilda captures world of wonderment in musical's latest tour
Inexplicably born into a family of knockabout telly addicts, five-year-old Matilda Wormwood buries herself in books, with her precocious intellect channelling increasingly fantastical tales of acrobats and escapologists that she tells to Esther…
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