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Spotify founder and current CEO Daniel Ek
What Does Spotify’s Continued Growth Mean To The Indie Sector?
from the figures is that the market share of Universal Music, Sony Music Entertainment, Warner Music and digital licensing group Merlin in Spotify dropped 71 per cent through ... foreign music, particularly US music.” Fight Back Major labels are fighting to take back their lost market share by buying into independent companies.  This week, Warner Music Group completed
Features / Interviews
Balance And Composure
Balance And Composure: ‘It Feels Like Our Little Pocket Of Music Is Stronger Than Ever’
band’s strongest work. The Music is catching up with the singer ahead of Balance And Composure’s long-awaited return to Australia next month. Embedded Content It took ... Today, all the band members—Simmons, guitarists Erik Petersen and Andy Slaymaker , bassist Matt Warner , and new drummer Dennis Wilson —have day jobs and families, so taking a month
Features / Interviews
Goo Goo Dolls
Goo Goo Dolls: ‘Our First Fortunes Sort Of Escaped Us’
gonna know your song [laughs]. Are they allowed to sell pharmaceuticals on television in Australia?”  Like Aspirin and stuff? “Noooo, noooo, like psychotropics and cholesterol medicine – it’s crazy ... kinda microscopic alternative music scene that was in the mid-‘80s and early-’90s.  “But in the early-‘90s, that all changed, and alternative music became all the rage
Industry / News
Matthew Capper
Former Warner Chappell Australia Managing Director Matthew Capper Passes Away
Matthew Capper, the former Managing Director of Warner Chappell Australia , has passed away following a brief illness. According to a statement posted by his family on LinkedIn yesterday (19 January ... With our deepest sympathy, “The Capper Family.” Capper was the Managing Director of Warner Chappell Australia from 2010 until last February when he was let go due to company-wide
News / Music
Skyhooks
Skyhooks Reissue 'Living In The 70's' For 50th Anniversary Celebration
this day, it’s a high point of Australian music, with the record frequently named as one of Australia's best albums. While the likes of triple j, Triple ... Australia registry in 2011. As part of its 50th anniversary celebrations, the record has now been remastered by David Briggs , with CD and vinyl copies now available via the Warner
Features / Music
Ten Classic Aussie Albums Turning 25 In 2025
Ten Classic Aussie Albums Turning 25 In 2025
fact, the strength of this album even saw Powderfinger posited as Australia’s next big musical export, going so far as to see them tour the US with a rising ... been playing music for 55 years, released just as many albums, and had been involved in 100 records across his lifetime. With countless Country Music Awards to his name
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Taxiride
Taxiride Fallout Continues Over Alleged Amendments To Band Wikipedia Page
first time. The vinyl was released as part of AusMusic Month . Warner Music Australia issued a limited-edition t-shirt for AusMusic T-Shirt Day , with $5 from every shirt
Industry / Opinion
Industry opinion
Would The Last Indie Turn Out The Lights?
fabric of Australian music that’s being lost. It’s efficient for a business but not great for the breadth of music needed to create a culture. It’s where ... competitors fighting diligently below the podium, like BMG , Nettwerk , Believe and Secretly . In March, Warner Music announced its intent to bid for Believe, but ultimately, the deal
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Ninajirachi
With Eye On Growth, ORiGiN Group Unveils Three-Year Australian Music Strategy
FIFA Women's World Cup. Yve Blake ’s subversive stage musical Fangirls , which toured Australia numerous times, was staged in the UK in 2024.  Electronic composer Yunyu , nominated ... struck with Warner’s independent distribution arm, ADA . A production music library, POST , was launched and helmed by Jennifer Kenyon , previously Music Supervisor at BMG Production Music (Australia). Redfearn
Features / Music
Cold Chisel
How Cold Chisel Managed To Own All Their Music
manager, Rod Willis , in a great position when WEA (now Warner Music ) wanted to re-sign what had become Australia’s hottest band. From their fourth album, Circus Animals , onwards ... albums, they can make back their investment. Embedded Content Artists not owning their own music has long caused grief in the business – leading to Prince writing ‘slave’ on his face
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Adam Ireland
Adam Ireland Departs Universal Music's BRING Agency
collaboration, creativity, and business strategy, we built the leading music & culture agency in Australia and one that’s recognised globally as genuinely world-class,” he wrote ... that good people and good work is also great business.” Ireland also thanked Universal Music’s brand partners for trusting him with their “most valuable asset[s],” stating that their
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ROSÉ
ROSÉ On Her Aussie Beginnings: 'It Was Never My Dream To Become A Singer'
Jase & Lauren yesterday, she said, “I would love to go [to Australia]. I haven’t been back for a few years. I really do miss it. “Every time ... really didn’t think of it as a possibility. “I always liked music, but it was never my dream to become a singer because I just didn’t think