Complete Music Update
October 09, 2025 - 05:27 AM
News from Complete Music Update.
Head of Live // O2 Academy Liverpool (Liverpool)
Role: Head of LiveCompany: O2 Academy LiverpoolWorking Hours: Full-time Job Type: PermanentLocation: Liverpool Salary: CompetitiveApplication Deadline: Wednesday 15 AprilAbout Academy Music GroupAcademy Music Group (AMG) is the UK’s leading owner and operator of live music and entertainment venues with award-winning credentials. Several of our historic theatres are unique institutions of British...
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CMU Selects - the last week’s standout releases
Alewya’s new single ‘ESHI እሺ’Built around the Masenqo, a single-stringed Ethiopian bowed lute, and gradually opening into a chant-led crescendo, ‘Eshi’ is Alewya at her most spiritually electric. Rooted in tradition but absolutely unbound by it, it’s genuinely one of those tracks that stops you in your tracks.Pigeon’s new single ‘Black James Dean’William Onyeabor in outer space, or early Hot Chip...
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Music industry trade bodies join forces with music publishers to defeat Anthropic’s “AI is fair use” defence
Eight music industry organisations in the US have teamed up to formally support the music publishers who are suing AI company Anthropic. They have submitted a so called ‘amicus brief’ with the court setting out why training an AI model that generates music with existing songs and recordings is not and can never be ‘fair use’ under American copyright law, because of market dilution. Anthropic has...
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Universal CEO Lucian Grainge makes 764 times more than his employees - and female staff get 48% less than male counterparts
Earlier this week Universal Music Group announced its first-ever share buyback programme, telling investors it would buy back €500 million of its own shares, as the company’s share price hit an all time low. The major’s new Chief Financial Officer, University Of Birmingham alumnus Matt Ellis, told investors that the buyback is necessary because he sees a “meaningful dislocation in UMG's...
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Judges keep overriding artist safeguards say Salt N Pepa in latest termination rights filing
When New York District Court Judge Denise Cote dismissed Salt N Pepa’s termination rights lawsuit against Universal Music at the start of the year, her decision was “riddled with error”, according to a new filing by the rap duo who have now taken their case to the Second Circuit Court Of Appeal. And those errors must be addressed on appeal, the new filing insists, because we’ve been here before....
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Kanye West’s three night Wireless booking criticised by antisemitism campaigners
The announcement that Kanye West will headline all three nights of Live Nation’s Pepsi-sponsored Wireless festival in London this year has been criticised by the Campaign Against Antisemitism and Jewish Leadership Council. The headline booking follows West’s formal apology earlier this year for his past racist and antisemitic conduct, but campaigners argue that the rapper’s rehabilitation by the...
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🌅 Horizon Future Leaders - Victoria Parkey
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. Victoria Parkey made the move from artist management and PR into freelance cultural curation and creative strategy; which essentially means she helps artists, brands and venues build more intentional...
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Assistant/day-to-day manager // SB3 Artist Management (Brighton)
Role: Assistant/day-to-day managerCompany: SB3 Artist ManagementSalary: DOEBasis: Full-time Location: Brighton-based / Hybrid SB3 Artist Management is an independent artist management company based in Brighton, and owned by Sumit Bothra. This is an opportunity for a highly organised and entrepreneurial management assistant/day-to-day to work with a client-list of globally successful recording...
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Wu-Tang Clan fans offered refunds after “all members” tour was missing four members
Wu-Tang Clan fans in Australia were offered refunds ahead of shows in Melbourne and Sydney last week after it emerged that several members of the hip hop group had not bothered to join the tour, despite promoters previously promising that “all members” would be involved. After fans complained that the line-up was far from complete at the group’s first Australian show in Brisbane, ticketing...
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🎧 Approved: Shock Corridor
Melbourne/Naarm six-piece Shock Corridor sound like they’ve been left to coalesce in a rehearsal room with too many records and not enough resolution. Post-punk, trip-hop, orchestral drift - they’re pulling from all of it without letting any single thread take the wheel. Their songs don’t so much arrive as accumulate, stretched and shaped through live performance until they’ve got a kind of...
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X says Cox ruling means music publishers’ copyright litigation must now be dismissed
Elon Musk’s X is hoping that last week’s US Supreme Court decision overturning the major record companies’ billion dollar win in a copyright dispute with Cox Communications has set a precedent that can help it get out of its ongoing legal battle with a group of music publishers. That’s despite the Recording Industry Association Of America insisting that the Cox ruling, while significant, was...
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Major music publishers buy into termination rights lawsuit to take fight to Supreme Court
The three major music publishers - Sony Music Publishing, Universal Music Publishing and Warner Chappell - as well as BMG have put their differences aside and clubbed together to buy their way into the ongoing legal battle around termination rights in the US. They have together bought a stake in ‘Double Shot (Of My Baby’s Love)’, the Cyril E Vetter song that was subject to a court battle that...
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Universal responds to “nonsensical” defamation appeal filed by the “astoundingly hypocritical” Drake
Drake is “astoundingly hypocritical” and his legal arguments “nonsensical”, as he tries to “turn the law upside down”, all because he’s still bitter about that 2024 diss battle where Kendrick Lamar delivered the “metaphorical killing blow”. If only Universal Music’s lawyers could make their legal filings in the ‘Not Like Us’ defamation case rhyme, the back and forth in this litigation could be as...
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CMU Selects - the last week’s standout releases
Raye’s new album ‘THIS MUSIC MAY CONTAIN HOPE.’Huge, expansive, bonkers and brilliant - a seventeen track, 73 minute concept album that pings between flapper jazz, Hans Zimmer orchestration, Fred Again-adjacent club bangers and a duet with Al Green, and somehow it holds together through sheer force of personality. Until four years ago Raye was essentially a session singer; now she’s the kind of...
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Spotify wants $300 million in damages from Anna’s Archive, and for court to go after piracy site’s service providers
Spotify and the major record companies want a New York court to issue a default judgment in their favour in their legal battle with Anna’s Archive. A default judgment is warranted, they say, because the piracy activist group have so far done a very good job of ignoring the litigation that was filed after they hacked into the Spotify platform last December and grabbed 86 million music files. Each...
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