Posted Thu 21 May 2009 3:15PM BST
So, this is a good start don't you think? The launch of Michael
Jackson's much much hyped comeback will now take place five days later
than originally planned, with the 8 Jul launch show now taking place on
13 Jul. The next three editions of the ' 
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 Wed 20 May 2009 12:47PM BST
Alison Mosshart of The Kills has issued a statement denying tabloid
rumours that suggested that she recently got into a fist fight with
Jack White in a New York bar.
Mosshart
says: "I don't usually bother responding to ridiculous fabricate Posted Wed 20 May 2009 12:45PM BST
Eminem is set to top the UK album chart this Sunday as the
biggest first-week seller of 2009. Slim Shady is expected to shift over
175,000 units of his comeback album 'Relapse' here in the UK by the
time the chart is compiled on Sunday, having sol Posted Wed 20 May 2009 12:44PM BST
While three of the four major record companies and many independent
labels have deals in place with YouTube, the Google-owned video service
really is struggling to get deals done with the songwriter collecting
societies. ... Posted Wed 20 May 2009 12:43PM BST
US hip hop artist and Akon protégé Dolla was shot dead outside a
shopping mall in Los Angeles on Monday. The rapper, real name Roderick
Burton, had been working on his debut studio album, reportedly called
'A Dolla & A Dream', after b Posted Tue 19 May 2009 3:48PM BST
According to reports, Spandau Ballet are planning to work with Take
That, and soon. Well, Tony Hadley say he hopes to collaborate with Gary
Barlow, which is sort of the same thing. MSN quote Hadley as saying:
"I'm hoping to start writing with Gary Posted Tue 19 May 2009 3:43PM BST
Damon Albarn has been very busy writing songs for the next Gorillaz
album, according to the band's manager, Chris Morrison, who has been
speaking to 6music about it all.
Morrison
said: "He's got a plethora of tracks at the moment. Whether Posted Tue 19 May 2009 3:41PM BST
Two spokesmen for the Metropolitan Police have defended the
controversial Form 696 that has been much criticised by the whole music
industry and, as of last week, by MPs too.
As
previously reported, the form is now used by local authoritie Posted Tue 19 May 2009 3:38PM BST
See, sometimes a decline can be a good thing: the decline of the
UK's record industry is declining. Perhaps not the headline you'd
choose to have at the top of your industry's end-of-year financial
report, but things could, and have been worse. Pl Posted Mon 18 May 2009 3:50PM BST
Following a five year hiatus, Blink 182 are to begin a fifty date
North American tour on 24 Jul in Las Vegas. The band will be supported
by the likes of Weezer, Fall Out Boy, Panic at the Disco, All-American
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