The new outfit will also create new opportunities for its writers to work across his extensive network of media formats and projects: The X Factor is still going strong internationally.
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YouTube Shorts adds creative tools including “Collab” remixes.
YouTube is continuing to pile resources into its TikTok and Reels rival.
Record Store Day is relaunching its RSD Unsigned competition.
Roll up, roll up. RSD’s comp will result in one unsigned artist having their music pressed on a 500-record run using “Bio-Vinyl” which according to a press release is a “new more sustainable but acoustically identical vinyl compound”.
US royalty collection society SoundExchange sues radio station SiriusXM over alleged $150M in unpaid royalties owed to artists (and rightsholders).
Awkward, or just downright awful – that’s a lot of money whatever way you cut and dry it.
Neuroscientists have reproduced Pink Floyd classic Another Brick in the Wall by… decoding the brain signals of a person listening to it.
Equal parts totally awesome and totally mind-blowing.
Can’t make Notting Hill Carnival? Party at home to Amazon Music’s livestream.
Amazon Music's activity will revolve around +44, its playlist brand focused on British Black music.
Arctic Monkeys, Young Fathers and RAYE are all nominated for the 2023 Mercury Prize, which celebrates the best British and Irish albums of the year.
Arctics make the shortlist for the fifth time with The Car, tying them with Radiohead as the most-nominated act in the award's 32-year history.
The FAC announces the 12 recipients of their Step Up Fund for 2023, supported by Amazon Music.
Drawn from across the UK, the hugely distinct talents represent an incredibly wide range of genres, and include an Ivor Novello Rising Star nominee, a winner of BBC 3’s The Rap Game, a band who recently performed on the main stage at TRNSMT and other artists