I wrote earlier this week about Lucian Grainge, the boss in charge at Universal Music Group. He’s pictured on the far right of the above image. But it’s not just…
Regular readers of this blog will almost certainly know the identity of the man on the left of this picture. He is, of course, Daniel Ek – the billionaire in…
Dare I say it, but I’m starting to like Rebecca Ferguson. Over the past year or two, she’s decided to take her position in the music industry and do something…
Earlier this year, Anita Baker did something extremely unusual for a musician. She told everyone to basically stop listening to her music. Yes, someone in a group of people who…
One thing I immensely enjoy about blogging is that no one is constraining what I say. If I feel like writing about something, I don’t have to go through a…
Finding out what’s going on inside record labels is notoriously difficult. This has always been the way, especially inside the majors. So when Raye recently went on a Twitter rampage…
This blog has dealt with the subject of the ownership of masters in the past. To put it succinctly, with one or two very specific exceptions, I’m totally against the…
A couple of weeks ago, British singer Rachel Agatha Keen – known in the music world simply as Raye – complained on Twitter that her record label was preventing her…
The Digital, Culture, Media, and Sport Committee have filed their report on streaming, and my goodness – initial impressions are that it doesn’t hold back. 50/50 pay for artists and…
This blog has been writing up about A Guy Called Gerald and the injustice he’s faced against Rham! Records for a while now. He recently announced that he wanted to…
