Category archives: Top Stories

Watch Madonna and Stevie Wonder Pay Tribute to Prince at Billboard Music Awards

Billboard Music Awards showcases Prince tribute… On Sunday night at the Billboard Music Awards, Madonna and Stevie Wonder paid tribute to the legendary pop icon, Prince. The tribute was introduced by Questlove who initiated a moment of silence to remember the late singer, before comparing his death to an ‘earthquake’. Madonna kicked off the tribute by singing an intro […]

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DistroKid Will Now Pay Everyone Who Worked On Your Song (Exclusive)

This is groundbreaking. This is a first on a mass scale in the current music industry. This is where we have evolved to. This is where we are at. DistroKid, one of the world’s leading digital distribution companies that gets artists and labels’ music into over 90 digital outlets (like Apple Music, Spotify, Amazon, iTunes, […]

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Executive Shuffle: Spotify, AEG Live, Future of Music Coalition

The latest executive shuffles across the music industry… Spotify has hired Francis Keeling as Head of Global Licensing. Keeling comes from Universal Music Group where he spent 14 years and worked as the Head of Global Digital Business for the label. Keeling will take on his new role with Spotify from June 1st, and will report to Stefan […]

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Crowdfunding Revives 80s Music Equipment…

Crowdfunding is becoming a common way to fund a business… Carl Fritjofsson has been working on bringing back iconic technology products from the 80s, by re-designing and modernising products from this era. The re-fits are not a complete design overhaul, but more-so an update and a re-fresh whilst preserving the 80s feel and look. The idea […]

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Are Apple Music and iTunes Deleting Users Music On Purpose?

Well users’ music is going AWOL, and Apple can’t figure out why, apparently… They even sent two engineers to a customer’s home after 122GB of his personal music collection deleted out of nowhere. James Pinkstone – the author of the blog Vellum Atlanta, was the customer who lost 122GB of his music. This prompted him […]

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Dr Luke Blocks Kesha From Performing at the Billboard Music Awards

Kesha won’t be performing at the Billboard music Awards in the US on Sunday. But why? Well…the singer was planning to talk about her ongoing legal battle with Dr Luke and make a few ‘digs’ at the producer during her on-stage performance, according to a report by The New York Daily News. News surfaced and […]

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Google Under Fire Yet AGAIN, This Time Over Monopolising Search Results

Google may undergo biggest anti-trust punishment to-date…. Officials in Brussels are finalising the 7-year investigation into Google’s online practices, and it has been reported that the search giant will undergo a massive fine over monopoly abuse. The European Commission is reportedly hitting Google with a €3bn fine, which is the highest anti-trust punishment to date. As the […]

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How To Win Your Audition For The Voice

It’s that time again where tens of thousands of aspiring musicians will wait for hours in line for a chance to perform for the producers of the Voice which gives them a chance to perform for the “blind auditions” in front of the celebrity judges which gives them a chance at making it on TV! Look […]

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Ticketmaster Gets Away With Settling $400 million Lawsuit With Coupons

According to a report by Billboard, Ticketmaster’s $400 million settlement will be coming into effect soon. The lawsuit, Schlesinger v. Ticketmaster started back in 2003 when Ticketmaster was part of IAC/InterActive Corp. Five Ticketmaster customers filed a class action lawsuit claiming that their order processing fees and delivery prices were ‘excessive and deceptive’. Ticketmaster customers who […]

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Kesha Plans To Re-open California Case Against Dr Luke

The Kesha and Dr. Luke battle has been ongoing for the past two years, and just when we thought the case was over, the battle continues… DMN has been following the Kesha vs. Dr. Luke smackdown since the first legal papers were filed in court. The legal dispute has been ongoing ever since and has ultimately been a […]

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