
So, how do people working in music know who's signing who, what those pesky record labels are up to, what the latest download whatnot is, who is moving and shaking, who is spending and saving, who is planning and scheming, or, for that matter, what Pete and Amy and Britney are up to? Simple, they read CMU Daily, the UK music business' biggest and most popular daily news bulletin. Now you to can get the lowdown from Team CMU, here on the CMU-Blog. You'll find even more at www.thecmuwebsite.com
Posted Sat 24 Oct 2009 9:35AM BST
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Posted Tue 11 Aug 2009 4:31PM BST
The results of Michael Jackson's second post-mortem will not be made public until police complete their investigation into the singer's death. It is, however, expected that the results of the tests will show that he was heavily medicated when he died More »
Posted Tue 4 Aug 2009 4:04PM BST
Peter Sunde, co-founder and official spokesperson for rogue BitTorrent tracking site The Pirate Bay has announced that he is resigning from the company "to be a person instead".
Because of his position as the public face of the company, and tenden More »
Posted Thu 23 Jul 2009 12:46PM BST
Although the French government remains committed to making three-strikes law, the plans have had another albeit temporary set back after the lower house of the French Parliament postponed voting on the latest proposals until the Autumn.
As previou More »
Posted Thu 23 Jul 2009 12:45PM BST
So, Michael Jackson's private physician is now well and truly in
the spotlight as LA authorities try to establish what exactly caused
the sudden death of the late King Of Pop. Dozens of police and federal
agents yesterday descended on the Houston More »
Posted Wed 22 Jul 2009 3:32PM BST
In a slightly rambling, rather uncomfortable interview, Michael Jackson's father has again denied physically abusing his son back in the Jackson 5 days, while claiming not to know where the late king of pop's body is currently being stored, and refut More »
Posted Thu 16 Jul 2009 12:11PM BST
One day we'll stop leading with Michael Jackson stories, I promise. For certain, we've scheduled a non-Jacko story to appear here in the top section for November. But for today, back to the Jacko, and yet more rumours that the late king of pop's deat More »
Posted Wed 15 Jul 2009 12:29PM BST
The live music industry has criticised the government for ignoring various key suggestions made by a parliamentary select committee regarding reforms of the 2003 Licensing Act - in particular in relation to exempting smaller venues and scrapping the More »
Posted Tue 14 Jul 2009 11:40AM BST
Back to Jacko now, and it seems that the next chapter in the 'how the hell did Jackson die?' story could kick off sooner than we expected. As previously reported, the LA coroner has held off from ruling on cause of death until the results of toxicolo More »
Posted Tue 14 Jul 2009 11:36AM BST
So, the boss of song royalties collecting society PRS For Music is
out of the door. And pretty pronto too, with an official statement from
the society that seems just a little bit like a very polite way of
saying Alan Sugar's catchphrase. But perh More »