Music Business Headlines - Morning Briefing

Royalty rates paid to songwriters in the US by 44%Kendrick Lamar has taken out triple J’s Hottest 100 of 2017Music from The Greatest Showman feature film continues to dominate the album charts in the UK Celebrations have taken place for the 60th grammy awards The founder of Playlists.net, Kieron Donoghue starts labelThe Golden Guitar Awards have taken place in tamworth

Elton John has today announced details of his final farewell global tourYouTube last year rolled out Official Artist Channels now, the giant streaming platform is consolidating all those subscribers under a single “official” account for each artist.Universal Music Canada (UMC), the country's leading music company, announced  that Kristen Burke has been promoted to Executive Vice PresidentThe shortlist for the Australian Music Prize 2017 has been announced China’s top media regulator has banned hip-hop culture and actors with tattoos from appearing on television.

Neil Diamond has cancelled all his upcoming Australian and New Zealand Little Caesar have signed a global dealWarner/Chappell Music, have announced the appointment of Javier Dean as A&R Director at Warner/Chappell Music SpainChildish Gambino inks new record dealEd Sheeran’s touring company post published figuresStreaming in Spain was up 25% in 2017Vevo head of product Mark Hall has left the company

Camila Cabello debuts at number 1Mariah Carey is being suedDJ equipment was allegedly stolen at The xx's afterpartyMusic Publisher Sony/ATV  has announced they have extended its worldwide deal with Jack Antonoff.YouTube has become a registration agency for the International Standard Name Identifier (ISNI) schemeHarry Styles could be set to become the youngest ever James Bond

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