It's the burning story of the week – Ticketmaster's inability to sell any tickets for TSwift's upcoming mega tour.
NEWS & EVENTS
Music streaming services are gearing up to celebrate Christmas
The fight for Christmas musical supremacy is between... Spotify, Apple Music and Amazon Music?! Mariah who?
Long and hard winter ahead for us musicians
It could be a long and hard winter ahead for us musicians, according to research by Help Musicians UK.
3LAU accused of not paying songwriter her fair share
Uh oh – it was only a matter of time before cases like these started appearing in the new, complex world of music NFTs and crypto assets. In a complaint filed on Wednesday in New York federal court, Luna Aura says she has a 50% royalty stake in the song Walk Away from his album Ultraviolet — but that 3LAU (real name Justin Blau) offered her just $25,000 from the much-publicized NFT auction tied to the record.
Matt Hancock, please stop singing and go away
OK, we understand we are fuelling the fire (and his eventual comeback). The former Health secretary, who is taking part in ITV's I'm a Celebrity... this year, has been roundly mocked for calling (poor) Ed Sheeran one of his favourite artists and singing his single Perfect on the show.
Nominees for MOBOs 2022 are announced
Nominees for MOBOs 2022 are announced with Nova Twins (pictured), Little Simz and FKA twigs among those up for consideration. The annual ceremony, which celebrates music of Black origin, is due to host its 25th anniversary edition at the OVO Arena Wembley on Wednesday 30th November.
Bad Bunny is Apple Music's Artist of the Year for 2022
It's barely November and already it's time for the end-of-year awards and gongs from industry companies (and just like Christmas, it seems to get going earlier and earlier each year). For Apple Music, one artist truly owned 2022: Bad Bunny (aka Benito Martinez Ocasio).
It's BBC Introducing Live week – and we've been all over it
It tends to come together very late each autumn (typical music biz) but BBC Introducing's week of edutainment events, gigs and panels has been massive this year.