Posted Tue 7 Apr 2009 3:08PM BST
British songwriters made more money than ever from international
royalties last year, with collecting society PRS For Music announcing
yesterday that its overall overseas income for 2008 was £139.6 million,
up nearly £20 million on the prev 
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 Tue 7 Apr 2009 3:06PM BST
Spinal Tap have announced a world tour to commemorate the 25th
anniversary of their 'rockumentary', 'This Is Spinal Tap'. The tour
will consist of one date at Wembley Arena in London on 30 Jun.
Explaining
the decision to play just one show Posted Tue 7 Apr 2009 3:04PM BST
The music business needs to better connect with fans if it's going
to survive. I think we all know that, but Trent Reznor, who's been
doing quite a bit of successful fan connecting since parting company
with the major label machine, has been talki Posted Tue 7 Apr 2009 3:02PM BST
Chris Brown has pleaded not guilty to charges of assault likely to
cause great bodily harm and of making criminal threats, both of which
relate, of course, to that much reported fight between him and then
girlfriend Rihanna after she found a text Posted Mon 6 Apr 2009 1:07PM BST
Yeah, every band should have to record a song with a name that can be used as a headline when the inevitable financial disputes kick in. Simply Red are suing EMI over record sales money caught up in the collapse of Woolworths' owned music distributor Posted Mon 6 Apr 2009 1:04PM BST
Students have held a peaceful protest outside a Soulja Boy gig at the University of Minnesota Duluth, claiming that the rapper's lyrics are "degrading". The surprised star wrote on Twitter "WTF I'm in minesota its a group of mafuckaz prtoes Posted Mon 6 Apr 2009 1:01PM BST
Rihanna's dad Ronald Fenty has said that his daughter is recovering after the presumably difficult period following the incident with former boyfriend Chris Brown in which she was allegedly badly assaulted. Fenty said of the singer, who apparently re Posted Mon 6 Apr 2009 12:58PM BST
France moved one step closer to the three-strike system last week when the French National Assembly, the lower house of the country's parliament, passed the central clause of the proposed ‘Creation & Internet Law', which is the bit that would se Posted Fri 3 Apr 2009 2:12PM BST
Lil Wayne, and his Universal/Cash Money imprint Young Money
Entertainment, are suing QD3 Entertainment and Digerati Holdings, both
owned by Quincy Jones III, son of the producer Quincy Jones, over
claims that they screened a documentary film about Posted Fri 3 Apr 2009 2:10PM BST
A Malawian court has ruled that Madonna will not be allowed to adopt a second child from the country.
As previously reported, Madonna flew into Malawi on Sunday and applied
to adopt four year old Chifundo 'Mercy' James the following day.
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