Complete Music Update
octobre 09, 2025 - 05:27
News from Complete Music Update.
🎧 Approved: Joseph Terrell
Joseph Terrell isn’t your typical strummy folk protagonist.There’s an old idea, often paraphrased, that if you want to know how bad things are, you should listen to the folk singers. Billy Bragg once suggested that a political songwriter is only as good as the bad times they’re living through. On ‘Genuine American Hero (Talking Blowback Blues)’ Terrell stands squarely up to the task.The song...
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Chris Brown recorded ‘Sensational’ lyrics without paying the writer, claims lawsuit
Chris Brown has been sued by artist and songwriter Steve Chokpelle, who performs as Muso, and who claims that he wrote lyrics for Brown’s tracks ‘Sensational’ and ‘Monalisa’ but has never received any royalties for that work. And in the case of ‘Monalisa’, he wasn’t even credited. According to a new lawsuit filed in California, pop thug Brown - and his other collaborators and business partners -...
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Adding “hot takes” to unlicensed music is not fair use, judge confirms in rockumentary copyright case
A US judge has ruled that British filmmaker Robert Carruthers infringed copyrights in music owned by Universal Music and ABKCO Music by making supposed documentaries that were really just greatest hits videos of the featured artists, including The Rolling Stones, Nirvana and Lynyrd Skynyrd.Under US copyright law, documentary makers can sometimes include copyright-protected works in their...
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Martin Shkreli sues Wu-Tang’s RZA in ongoing ‘Once Upon A Time In Shaolin’ battle
Convicted fraudster and ‘pharma bro’ Martin Shkreli has sued Wu-Tang’s RZA in the long-running dispute over who owns the rights in Wu-Tang album ‘Once Upon A Time In Shaolin’, which was released with only one physical copy ever being made. RZA is responsible for that dispute, Shkreli argues, because he managed to sell “a total of 150% of the copyrights” in his musical work, not because of bad...
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IMPALA report warns European music diversity will erode without intervention on ownership, market access and infrastructure
Europe’s independent music sector is losing ground to non-European corporations, and without regulatory intervention on ownership, infrastructure and market access, cultural diversity will erode. That’s the warning in a new report from IMPALA addressed to European policymakers and the wider music industry.The report follows on from IMPALA’s call last month to “stand up for culture”, which frames...
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🎧 Approved: ugly ozo
Isle Of Wight trio ugly ozo dwell in a languid space between grungey bedroom pop and doom-gaze. Formed just a year ago by Jessica Baker with her sister Boo on bass and Tristan Northard on drums, the band have wasted no time. They treat ugly ozo as an anxious sonic diary, exposing the raw edges of the female experience. A fast-rising catalogue of searing, self-reflective indie bangers marks them...
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European Commission must tackle “coercive buy-out practices” when US video streamers commission music, says MEP
Songwriter champions in the European Parliament have called on the European Commission to ensure that US studios and streamers commissioning music in Europe adhere to EU copyright law, which basically means ending the use of “coercive buy-out practices”. MEPs met with representatives of ECSA and GESAC earlier today to discuss the growing problem of buy-out deals, where studios and streamers...
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BOTS Act definitely applies to Ticketmaster in FTC case, insists senator who wrote the BOTS Act
One of the Senators behind the US Better Online Sales Act has asked to intervene in the Federal Trade Commission’s big lawsuit against Ticketmaster, which centres on allegations that the Live Nation ticketing company has violated that very act. Passed in 2016, the BOTS Act put restrictions on how American ticket touts - or scalpers - source the tickets they want to resell. In a new court filing,...
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Spotify makes good on commitment to support Turkish music, announces opening of Istanbul office
For a brief moment last July, Spotify came under considerable pressure in Türkiye, with the country’s competition regulator announcing an investigation into allegedly anticompetitive practices, just as Deputy Culture Minister Batuhan Mumcu laid into the company’s content moderation systems, which he said were allowing through content that was “incompatible with the cultural and moral values of...
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CMU Selects - the last week’s standout releases
Ray Laurél’s new single ‘The Ugly Ones’Ray Laurél combines Prince-like guitar sexiness and gritty funk-rock with soft, poetic, emotionally charged vocals, and then adds in some James Blake-style, emotionally knotted electronics. It almost feels unfair to describe him through comparisons, but really - who wouldn’t be curious about a mix of Prince and James Blake? ‘The Ugly Ones’ is an explosive...
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Charlie Puth got musician to provide vocals for ‘Furious 7’ track, then Warner cheated him out rights and royalties, says lawsuit
Musician and one-time Warner Music exec Jake Broido has sued his former employer and Universal Pictures in a dispute over his contribution to the Wiz Khalifa and Charlie Puth song ‘See You Again’. which famously appears on the soundtrack to ‘Furious 7’. Broido claims that the major label and the film studio have together deprived him of the rights and royalties he is due from that contribution....
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UK government needs to urgently address creator concerns over AI, say two new studies
Just under 80% of UK music creators are concerned about AI-generated music competing with human-created music, according to a new survey by collecting society PRS For Music. Meanwhile, in a different study undertaken by ISM, 73% of musicians surveyed said they believe unregulated generative AI threatens their ability to earn a living. Both studies come as the UK government still considers what...
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BMG in talks to buy Concord
Another big music industry merger is on the cards, but at least this time it’s not Universal Music continuing in its bid to gobble up every single business on the music rights menu. According to Bloomberg, BMG is in talks to acquire Concord, potentially bringing together two significant independent businesses within recorded music and especially music publishing. The news isn’t particularly...
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🌅 Horizon Future Leaders - Liv Judd at Partisan Records
As part of our Horizon Future Leaders series of interviews, we are connecting with the music industry’s next generation of leaders to gather candid advice and insights into their career journeys. This week, we caught up with Liv Judd, Audience Development Intern at Partisan Records.From spending eight years building her own artist project to landing her first label role at 27, Liv’s journey is...
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Kid Rock tells lawmakers “resale price caps work”, so US should follow European lead on ticket touting
Kid Rock may be a prominent Donald Trump fan, but when it comes to ticket touting he’s happy to swerve away from not one but two of Trump’s key political beliefs: that regulation is bad and European governments are stupid. Because, when it comes to secondary ticketing, Kid Rock wants American lawmakers to implement European style regulation, mainly by introducing a price cap on the resale of...
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