Fancy a flutter? We have reached that stage in the Hyundai Mercury Prize campaign where everyone in the biz has a hot tip as to who’s going to win the ...
Sir Lucian Grainge is excited. Investors certainly seem happy, with Vivendi's share price up in Paris after the announcement. Those who were starting to believe the slow-moving Universal Music ...
I’ve just returned from a few days in Nashville where, even amidst the chaos of the Broadway party wagons and the honky-tonk hen dos, it was abundantly clear that country ...
It’s been something for audiences to moan about at gigs and, especially, festivals for as long as anyone can remember: that moment when a classic artist breaks up a storming ...
At times lately, it’s felt like more people are producing podcasts than actually listening to the bloody things.
But, as streaming companies target spoken word as their next big (and, ...
There is so much to unpack in the Taylor Swift/Scooter Braun/Scott Borchetta dispute that it feels like moving house.
But beyond speculating which celebrity will be next to be dragged ...
The furore over the 2008 fire at Universal Music’s archive vault in California, housed at the non-UMG owned Universal Studios, much like the blaze itself, is showing few signs ...
Last week, for the first time in history, time stood still on the Official Singles Chart, with every record in the Top 10 a non-mover.
Back in the day, ...
A lot of things about the lavish UK iTunes launch in 2004 seem odd, with the benefit of 2019 hindsight.
Steve Jobs’ confident declaration that, “Users don’t want to rent ...
There are many things to take away from the recent explosion in rock biopics, but one notable thing about Rocketman and Bohemian Rhapsody is the sheer amount of downtime artists ...
