Setlist (Complete Music Update (CMU))

CMU's Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review the week in music and the music business, including Apple's big music announcement, The Arches in Glasgow closing down, Kobalt's new collecting society, and why Walmart hates Justin Bieber.

CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review the week in music and the music business, including the indie label backlash against Apple Music, Blinkbox going into administration, Beastie Boys' latest legal win against Monster Energy Drink, and Dave Grohl's gammy leg. The CMU Podcast is sponsored by 7digital.

CMU's Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review the week in music and the music business, including Taylor Swift causing a u-turn on Apple Music's royalties policy, Ed Sheeran's 'Thinking About You' spending a year in the Top 40, the music industry's win against the government on the private copy right, and Deadmau5's latest legal escapades. The CMU Podcast is sponsored by 7digital.

CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review the week in music and the music business, including the latest developments in 19 Entertainment’s litigation against Sony Music, the latest photographer rage against Taylor Swift, why 1972 is a key year in American copyright law and why there won’t be any more posthumous albums from Amy Winehouse. The CMU Podcast is sponsored by 7digital.

CMU's Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review the week in music and the music business, including the NME's announcement that it will become free later this year, Sony Music's response to 19 Entertainment on its equity in Spotify, PRS For Music's new campaign on safe harbours, and 65daysofstatic's response to receiving money from the government's Music Export Growth Scheme. The CMU Podcast is sponsored by 7digital.

CMU's Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review the week in music and the music business, including the latest in the Marvin Gaye's family's legal battle with Pharrell Williams and Robin Thicke over 'Blurred Lines', the BBC banning Neil Young and others from its radio stations, NPR's withdrawal from the MIC Coalition, and why a cartoonist was sent to a Foo Fighters show. The CMU Podcast is sponsored by 7digital.

CMU's Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review the week in music and the music business, including the FTC's investigation into Apple's 'tax' on in-app purchases, the race to improve songwriting royalty reporting, Spotify's new Discover Weekly playlists, and the pains of trying to get your One Direction remix competition entry heard on SoundCloud. The CMU Podcast is sponsored by 7digital.

CMU's Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review the week in music and the music business, including the latest on the digital pie debate, Amazon Prime Music's UK launch, Russian social network vKontakte's "goodwill agreement" with Sony Music, and Zayn Malik's contract signing frenzy. The CMU Podcast is sponsored by 7digital.

CMU's Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review the week in music and the music business, including facts, figures, rumours and deals at Apple Music, Universal's new playlist marketing boss Jay Frank, the latest on Robert Sillerman's attempts to buy back SFX Entertainment and the knock on effects for Beatport, plus the surprise new album from Dr Dre. The CMU Podcast is sponsored by 7digital.

CMU's Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review the week in music and the music business, including big tech hitting out as the MPAA attempts to get web-clocking through the US courts, Dr Luke being sued over an alleged drum sample, why every should stop freaking out over iTunes being 'illegal', and Prince comparing record deals to slavery. The CMU Podcast is sponsored by 7digital.

CMU's Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review the week in music and the music business, including the long-awaited launch of Baboom, the longer awaited deletion of MegaUpload, the further protracted buy-back of SFX, and unexpected departure of Tom Jones from 'The Voice'. The CMU Podcast is sponsored by 7digital.

CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review the week in music and the music business, including PRS suing Soundcloud, more recent developments in the dispute over the lost MegaUpload data, Tyler, The Creator being refused a visa by the UK government, and One Direction’s upcoming hiatus. The CMU Podcast is sponsored by 7digital.

CMU's Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review the week in music and the music business, including Tesco and Technics joining the much hyped vinyl revival, EMI Production Music's sample amnesty, the Canadian company accusing the majors of anti-competitive behaviour over public domain recordings, and Kanye West's bid to be President of the USA. The CMU Podcast is sponsored by 7digital.

CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review the week in music and the music business, including the relaunch of Xfm and the BBC’s streaming ambitions, more on the safe harbours debate and Google's takedowns, Sony/ATV’s concerns about one particular consent decree reform in the US, and Sam Smith being a big fat liar. And recording a Bond theme. The CMU Podcast is sponsored by 7digital.

CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review the week in music and the music business, including what the long-running dancing baby case tells us about takedowns and fair use, Aretha Franklin's film woes, what Nielsen's latest stats tell us about the streaming music sector, and Elton John not chatting to the Russian president. The CMU Podcast is sponsored by 7digital.

CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review the week in music and the music business, including the ruling that 'Happy Birthday' is out of copyright in the US, record sales at gigs being included in album chart data, Deezer beating Spotify to become the first European streaming service to announce an IPO, and the fate of Father John Misty's covers of Ryan Adams' covers of Taylor Swift. The CMU Podcast is sponsored by 7digital.

CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review the week in music and the music business, including France's new government-led initiative on transparency in digital music deals, controversy over the funding of T In The Park, rumours on YouTube's music streaming plans, Amazon Prime Music's Universal Music deal, and Justin Bieber's thoughts on life, the universe and everything. The CMU Podcast is sponsored by 7digital.

CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review the week in music and the music business, including Pandora's acquisition of Ticketfly, Modular's legal disputes with Universal Music and BMG, the US Copyright Royalty Board's review of SoundExchange royalties and George Osborne's love of NWA. The CMU Podcast is sponsored by 7digital.

CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review the week in music and the music business, including the Dissecting The Digital Dollar report we published this week with the MMF, the RIAA's speedy lawsuit against new music app Aurous, Steven Tyler's cease and desist against Donald Trump, and Barack and Hillary's tips for future US President Kanye West. The CMU Podcast is sponsored by 7digital.

CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review the week in music and the music business, including the unveiling of YouTube's subscription service, Victory Records' mechanical rights dispute with Spotify, the debates around Venue Day and the Mercury shortlist. The CMU Podcast is sponsored by 7digital.

CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review the week in music and the music business, including Deezer abandoning its IPO, Radiohead suing Parlophone, the Get It Right campaign and Adele's return. The CMU Podcast is sponsored by 7digital.

CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review the week in music and the music business, including Pandora’s “unprecedented” licensing deal with Sony/ATV, MegaUpload’s lawyers finally defending rather than delaying in the long drawn out extradition case, UK Music’s ‘Measuring Music’ report on just how much money the music industry is pumping into the UK economy, and a week in the life of the world’s greatest human being Justin Bieber. The CMU Podcast is sponsored by 7digital.

CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review the week in music and the music business, including Victory Records’ victorious return to Spotify in the US, Apple Music’s Android app and Apple’s motivations for creating it, more on Sony/ATV’s direct licensing deal with Pandora, and the unlikely but really happening reunion of Busted. The CMU Podcast is sponsored by 7digital.

CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review the week in music and the music business, including Rdio shutting down as Pandora buys its assets, Spotify's new artist data platform, the secondary ticketing debate and Zayn Malik's Fader interview. The CMU Podcast is sponsored by 7digital.

CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review the week in music and the music business, including Adele's record-breaking week, Cox Communications' dispute with BMG and Round Hill, Paul Weller's dispute with the Daily Mail, and Noisey's interview with the guy behind Dancing Jesus. The CMU Podcast is sponsored by 7digital.

CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review the week in music and the music business, including Peter Hook's lawsuit against his former New Order bandmates, the latest development's in web-blocks, the social media hijack at Elastic Artists, and all those ones to watch lists. The CMU Podcast is sponsored by 7digital.

CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review the week in music and the music business, including Spotify considering windowing, the European Commission's Digital Single Market review, the agent of change principle, and Wu Tang Clan's one-copy album buyer. The CMU Podcast is sponsored by 7digital.

In the final CMU Podcast of the year, CMU's Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review both the week and the year in music and the music business, including the Copyright Royalty Board ruling in the US and Spotify's latest hire, plus the key developments and stories, and artists and releases, from 2015. The CMU Podcast is sponsored by 7digital.

CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review the week in music and the music business, including David Bowie, Universal finally doing a licensing deal with SoundCloud, Spotify’s mechanical royalty disputes in the US, and Songkick suing Live Nation. The CMU Podcast is sponsored by 7digital.

CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review the week in music and the music business, including PRS's new deal with YouTube, the dramatic events at Life Or Death PR, Deezer's new money and some big developments in J-Pop this week. The CMU Podcast is sponsored by 7digital.

CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review the week in music and the music business, including Spotify adding video and raising more money, T In The Park's "teething problems", the launch of Cür Music and B.o.B's scientific beef. The CMU Podcast is sponsored by 7digital.

CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review the week in music and the music business, including the SFX bankruptcy and its potential knock on effects, the RIAA adding streams into its Gold and Platinum sales awards, the PRS/PPL joint venture on performance rights licensing, and Rita Ora's legal battle with Roc Nation. The CMU Podcast is sponsored by 7digital

CMU's Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review the week in music and the music business, including Warner Music and Sony Music's commitments to share any cash from selling Spotify shares with their artists, Bloc's move out of the festival market, SoundCloud's make or break year, and (for some reason) Martin Shkreli. The CMU Podcast is sponsored by 7digital.

CMU's Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review the week in music and the music business, including Daniel Ek's claims that streaming is turning around the record business's fortunes and Spotify's attempt to stop David Lowery's lawsuit from becoming a class action, YouTube's acquisition of Bandpage, new research on the popularity of in-car radio listening, plus Morrissey's ill-fated move into modelling. The CMU Podcast is sponsored by 7digital.

CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review the week in music and the music business, including the latest developments in the Kesha v Dr Luke legal battle, new stats on piracy in the US, Attitude Is Everything's State Of Access report and latest Eurovision news. The CMU Podcast is sponsored by 7digital.

CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review the week in music and the music business, including the confusion around whether or not ATP has been cancelled, Sony’s acquisition of Essential, Tidal’s mechanical rights lawsuit and the all important Boyzlife venture. The CMU Podcast is sponsored by 7digital.

CMU’s Chris Cooke and guest Brittney Bean review the week in music and the music business, including the latest developments in the mechanical rights dispute in the US, recent figures on entertainment retail in the UK, SoundCloud's latest hire and 50 Cent's unwise Instagram snaps. The CMU Podcast is sponsored by 7digital.

Last Thursday, CMU Insights presented a session at the Convergence festival considering the challenges facing the media sector in 2016. This special edition of the CMU Podcast includes highlights from the session, with CMU Business Editor Chris Cooke considering media about music, and interviewing the people behind some of our favourite music magazines and websites.

CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review the week in music and the music business, including US record industry figures published by the RIAA, Songkick's litigation against Live Nation, Spotify's stats and settlements, and Justin Bieber calling time on meets and greets. The CMU Podcast is sponsored by 7digital.

CMU's Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review the week in music and the music business, including the launch of SoundCloud's subscription service, Tidal's stats, brags and potential lawsuits, BPI's 200 million takedowns and Kanye's ever evolving album. The CMU Podcast is sponsored by 7digital.

CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review the week in music and the music business, including Sony Music's lawsuit against former Rdio execs, Radiohead's catalogue seemingly shifting over to XL, MCPS putting its operations up for tender, and Beyonce and Deadmau5's latest trademark squabbles. The CMU Podcast is sponsored by 7digital.

CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review the week in music and the music business, including the key stats from the IFPI's latest Global Music Report and what they mean, Facebook's new Content ID system, the legal battle to prove that 'We Shall Overcome' is in the public domain, and Gene Simmons' attempts to prove that NWA aren't rock n roll. The CMU Podcast is sponsored by 7digital.

CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review the week in music and the music business, including Warner Music and the indie labels’ opposition to Sony/ATV becoming wholly owned by Sony Corp, ATP’s latest cancellation, the continued question over YouTube’s position in hell, and the man taking Kanye West to court over a tweet. The CMU Podcast is sponsored by 7digital.

CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review the week in music and the music business, including key take-aways from the CMU Insights @ The Great Escape conference, the UK government's new report on secondary ticketing, and Bpoplive's line up problems.

CMU's Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review the week in music and the music business, including Guvera's IPO and the current challenges facing the streaming music market, the latest twist in Kraftwerk's legal battle over a two second sample of 'Metal On Metal', and Ellie Goulding's defiant political stance on Donald Trump. The CMU Podcast is sponsored by 7digital.

CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review the week in music and the music business, including the song-theft lawsuit filed against Ed Sheeran, the RIAA's attempt to suspend thepiratebay.org, WIN's new indie music market research and Axl Rose's photo woes. The CMU Podcast is sponsored by 7digital.

CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review the week in music and the music business, including the Led Zeppelin song-theft court case, Apple Music's revamp, Foo Fighters' insurance litigation and some pop referendum news. The CMU Podcast is sponsored by 7digital.

CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review the week in music and the music business, including lots of letters about the value gap, the closure of ATP, Guvera's IPO being blocked, and the recruitment of Take That v2. The CMU Podcast is sponsored by 7digital.

In this special edition of the CMU Podcast, CMU Business Editor Chris Cooke chats to musician and vocal artist rights advocate David Lowery about the digital music market, his criticisms of the streaming sector, his lawsuit against Spotify, and whether he's optimistic about the future of the music business.

CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review the week in music and the music business, including music publishers' dismay at the US Department Of Justice's decision on the 'consent decrees' that govern collective licensing in the country, a new report on the state of music consumption in the US at 2016's mid-point, and the public slanging match between Spotify and Apple. The CMU Podcast is sponsored by 7digital.

CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review key events in music and the music business from this summer, including the closure of Fabric, the launch of the FanFair campaign against secondary ticketing, and Frank Ocean's two new albums and how they contributed to the debate over streaming exclusives. The CMU Podcast is sponsored by 7digital.

CMU's Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review key events in music and the music business from the last week, including the appointment of Lyor Cohen as YouTube's Global Head Of Music, various rumours of streaming service acquisitions, and the record industry's new campaign against stream ripping and legal action against YouTube-mp3. The CMU Podcast is sponsored by 7digital.

On the CMU Podcast this week, Andy Malt and Chris Cooke are joined by Music Managers Forum CEO Annabella Coldrick to discuss part two of the ‘Dissecting The Digital Dollar’ report. She also tells us more about the Fanfair Alliance campaign, and we run through some of the biggest music industry stories of the last week. The CMU Podcast is sponsored by 7digital.

CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review key events in music and the music business from the last week, including Amazon's new on-demand streaming music service, warnings that the Isle Of Wight Festival may be cancelled in 2017, and Inane Clown Posse's take on the sinister clown craze taking over the US and now the world. The CMU Podcast is sponsored by 7digital.

CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review key events in music and the music business from the last week, including moves by MP Nigel Adams to get ticket-buying bots banned, how the cost of streaming is putting off mainstream consumers, and Harry Shearer’s $125 million lawsuit over royalties from ‘This Is Spinal Tap’. The CMU Podcast is sponsored by 7digital.

CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review key events in music and the music business from the last week, including the Music Venue Trust’s open letter calling for an end to PRS For Music’s minimum fee for live shows, the latest developments in virtual reality for music, and Justin Bieber’s campaign against screaming. The CMU Podcast is sponsored by 7digital.

CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review key events in music and the music business from the last week, including GEMA’s licensing deal YouTube in Germany after a seven year stand off, Avenged Sevenfold’s potential legal problems if their new album is a success, and the narrowly averted Smiths reunion now being blocked by Nigel Farage. The CMU Podcast is sponsored by 7digital.

CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review key events in music and the music business from the last week, including the latest developments in the legal case against the alleged owner of KickassTorrents, responses to a change in management at the US Copyright Office, and efforts to make the BRITs more diverse. The CMU Podcast is sponsored by 7digital.

CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review key events in music and the music business from the last week, including the Culture Select Committee session on ticket touting in Parliament, Duran Duran testing the reach of America's copyright reversion rule, and Prince's label suing Tidal. The CMU Podcast is sponsored by 7digital.

CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review key events in music and the music business from the last week, including Fabric getting its licence back, Amazon's plans to ramp up its ticketing business, and the new OK Go video. The CMU Podcast is sponsored by 7digital.

CMU's Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review key events in music and the music business from the last week, including the BBC's Sound Of 2017 list, the future of artificial intelligence in music, and the distressing news that Kate Bush is a massive Tory. The CMU Podcast is sponsored by 7digital.

CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review key events in music and the music business from the last week, including YouTube and the IFPI’s disagreement over whether $1 billion is ‘a lot’ or ‘not nearly enough’, SFX Entertainment’s big post-bankruptcy rebrand as LiveStyle, and Irving Azoff’s Global Music Rights accusing the US radio industry of being anti-competitive. The CMU Podcast is sponsored by 7digital.

CMU's Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review key events in music and the music business from the last week, including what the future may hold for SoundCloud now that talks for Spotify to buy it are off, the latests revamps and possible revamps at Sony Music, and the government's opposition to adding the consideration of "cultural benefits" to live music licensing rules. The CMU Podcast is sponsored by 7digital.

CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review key events in music and the music business from the last year in this bumper double edition of the CMU Podcast. We discuss the continued growth of the streaming market, the increasingly proactive campaign against secondary ticketing, the safe harbours debate, and our five favourite ‘and finally’ stories of 2016. The CMU Podcast is sponsored by 7digital.

CMU's Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review key events in music and the music business from the last week, including all the many Prince-related news stories from deals to no deals, how Metal Hammer and Classic Rock magazines have been saved by the company that sold them off four years ago, and why a load of rare Motown tracks from 1966 have suddenly appeared on music services. The CMU Podcast is sponsored by 7digital.

CMU's Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review key events in music and the music business from the last week, including Paul McCartney suing Sony/ATV over his rights to the Lennon/McCartney catalogue and a round-up of the many music-related Donald Trump stories. We also answer a listener question about the value of putting music videos on Facebook - should artists being focussing on this or not? The CMU Podcast is sponsored by 7digital.

CMU's Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review key events in music and the music business from the last week, including Tidal's bid to boost subscriber numbers by selling out to US tel co Sprint, a bid to answer all of your questions about piracy, and why Madonna's thoughts about the White House could (definitely won't) land her in prison. The CMU Podcast is sponsored by 7digital.

CMU's Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review key events in music and the music business from the last week, including the collapse of HMV Canada and what it might mean for music retail worldwide, the top five contenders for the music industry's enemy number one in 2017, and the quirks of Facebook's music video takedown system. The CMU Podcast is sponsored by 7digital.

CMU's Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review key events in music and the music business from the last week, including the parliamentary debate over Liberal Democrat lord Tim Clement-Jones' proposal for more transparency in the digital music domain and the RIAA's legal action against mixtape service Spinrilla, plus we answer the age-old question, does PRS need a PRS licence? The CMU Podcast is sponsored by 7digital.

CMU's Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review key events in music and the music business from the last week, including SoundCloud's new mid-price streaming option, the music industry's failure to agree on transparency and Parliament's views on the matter, plus Vivendi's stern response to Spinal Tap's $400 million lawsuit. The CMU Podcast is sponsored by 7digital.

CMU's Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review key events in music and the music business from the last week, including the latest announcements about the CMU Insights @ The Great Escape conferences, ERA's new stats showing access overtook ownership in terms of revenue in 2016, and how Ed Sheeran is ruining the charts for everyone. The CMU Podcast is sponsored by 7digital.

CMU's Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review key events in music and the music business from the last week, including US customs officials' refusal to allow a number of international acts into the country to perform at SXSW, the launch of Pandora's premium on-demand streaming service and what (apparently) makes it different, plus Deadmau5 being sued over the name of his cat. The CMU Podcast is sponsored by 7digital.

CMU's Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review key events in music and the music business from the last week, including Viagogo's no-show at the latest parliamentary select committee hearing on secondary ticketing, Spinrilla’s irritable response to the major record labels’ lawsuit against the mixtape sharing platform, and how new acts should approach journalists. The CMU Podcast is sponsored by 7digital.

CMU's Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review key events in music and the music business from the last week, including what we know and what we think is in Spotify's new licensing deal with Universal Music, the latest attempts in Washington to try and get American radio stations to pay royalties to labels and artists for airplay, and Google’s cool funding of extremism. The CMU Podcast is sponsored by 7digital.

CMU's Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review key events in music and the music business from the last week, including the latest stats from the BPI that reveal that UK record industry revenues grew 5.1% in 2016, the upcoming revamp of Dailymotion that will see it move away from UGC, and why Coachella didn't book Kate Bush in 2015, even though booking her was never actually an option. The CMU Podcast is sponsored by 7digital.

CMU's Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review key events in music and the music business from the last week, including the latest stats from the IFPI that reveal that global record industry revenues grew 5.9% in 2016 (despite flippin YouTube), and how new legislation to combat ticket touting just skated into UK law before Parliament broke up for a pointless election. The CMU Podcast is sponsored by 7digital.

CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review key events in music and the music business from the last week, including the spectacular collapse of Ja Rule’s Fyre Festival and the many-layered fallout from it, Eminem’s song-theft lawsuit against New Zealand’s ruling National Party getting to court, and the launch of the CMU Insights @ The Great Escape programme. The CMU Podcast is sponsored by 7digital.

CMU's Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review key events in music and the music business from the last week, including Warner Music's new licensing deal with YouTube and the ongoing safe harbours debate, Amazon's latest moves in live music and its all new Echo device, plus an astonishing amount of Fyre Festival legal news. The CMU Podcast is sponsored by 7digital.

Ahead of this year’s CMU@TGE conference, CMU MD and Business Editor Chris Cooke talks through the key developments in the music business since last year’s Great Escape, and explains where some of those trends will be considered in this year’s programme.

CMU's Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review key events in music and the music business from the last week, including the upcoming General Election in the UK and what it might mean for music, a round-up of all the latest Prince legal news, and plans for Festival Republic to introduce facilities for ticketholders to test the safety of drugs at its events. The CMU Podcast is sponsored by 7digital.

CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review key events in music and the music business from the last week, including Spotify settling the big mechanical royalties class action lawsuit that has been hanging over its plans to list on the stock market, arguments from both sides of the safe harbours debate in Europe hotting up, and Theresa May’s assault on the charts. The CMU Podcast is sponsored by 7digital.

CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review key events in music and the music business from the last week, including Pandora selling Ticketfly to Eventrbite and nearly a fifth of itself to Sirius XM, the latest indie label streaming stats from Merlin, and Bob Dylan borrowing from a school book in his Nobel lecture. The CMU Podcast is sponsored by 7digital.

CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review key events in music and the music business from the last week, including Apple Music reportedly looking to reduce the royalties it pays the labels, US band The Slants getting American trademark law rewritten, and Morrissey's silly spat with HMV. The CMU Podcast is sponsored by 7digital

CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review key events in music and the music business from the last week, including the music industry's joy at a landmark ruling in Canada ordering Google to delist an entire website from its search results worldwide, Universal's renewed bid to cancel its Prince recordings deal, and new rules in the UK singles chart designed to stop Ed Sheeran hogging it all. The CMU Podcast is sponsored by 7digital.

CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review key events in music and the music business from the last week, including Kanye West falling out with Tidal just as Jay-Z releases his new album, AEG’s very public spat with MSG and Live Nation, and Ed Sheeran quitting Twitter while planning an 8 Mile-style biopic. The CMU Podcast is sponsored by 7digital.

CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review key events in music and the music business from the last week, including Spotify's 'fake' artist 'scandal', Kylie and Kendall Jenner's legal battle over what constitutes copyright infringement when printing t-shirts, and the Mansfield radio station battling repeated unwanted intrusions by a wanker. The CMU Podcast is sponsored by 7digital.

CMU's Chris Cooke and guest presenter Becky Brook review key events in music and the music business from the last week, including the latest mechanical right lawsuits against Spotify in the US and what they reveal about the complexities of digital licensing, plus the BBC's big pay reveal and its plan for a new prime-time music show. The CMU Podcast is sponsored by 7digital.

CMU's Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review key events in music and the music business from the last week, including figures showing that UK music retail sales were up 11.2% in the first half of 2017 (all thanks to streaming), Help Musicians' latest initiative to improve mental health in the music industry and this year's Mercury Prize shortlist. The CMU Podcast is sponsored by 7digital.

In the first edition of our new podcast Setlist, CMU's Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review key events in music and the music business from the last week, including Dweezil Zappa's legal battle with his siblings over the use of his own name, plus his views on plans for his father Frank Zappa to return to the stage as a hologram. They also look through key music industry stats published over the podcast's summer break, and decide the music industry's Public Enemy Number One. The CMU Podcast is sponsored by 7digital.

CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review key events in music and the music business from the last week, including new European Commission guidelines supporting web services that offer takedown-stay-down copyright protection systems, Spotify's ongoing mechanical royalties woes, and a turbulent week in pop politics. Setlist is sponsored by 7digital.

CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review key events in music and the music business from the last week, including the upcoming deposition of Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince on the company's piracy policies, Ticketmaster's new report on the grime industry, and the legacy of Radiohead's 'In Rainbows' - and it's pay-what-you-want release - ten years on. Setlist is sponsored by 7digital.

CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review key events in music and the music business from the last week, including the latest sparring between Songkick and Live Nation as they get closer to their anti-trust trial, New South Wales in Australia's tough new laws on ticket touting, plus the end of an era for The Pirate Bay. Setlist is sponsored by 7digital.

Section times:

Intro: 00:00 Songkick: 07:34 New South Wales: 19:40 In Brief: 26:28 The Pirate Bay: 30:38 Outro: 37:52

CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review key events in music and the music business from the last week, including Eminem's legal win against New Zealand's ruling political party, the World Independent Network's latest stats on indie label market share and why they matter, plus Kid Rock's departure from the political arena (which he was never in). Setlist is sponsored by 7digital.

Section times:

Intro - 00:00 Eminem - 08:02 WINTEL - 18:18 In brief - 27:59 Kid Rock - 31:53 Outro - 36:25

CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review key events in music and the music business from the last week, including why Apple's new attempt to control your home won't stretch to your music (unless you're an Apple Music customer), YouTube's denial that it wants to block anti-YouTube adverts, and supermarket chain Sainsbury's announcement that it is launching a vinyl-only record label.

CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review key events in music and the music business from the last week, including Taylor Swift's cease-and-desist to a blog that published an article discussing the alt-right’s love of her music, why Bristol's floating venue Thekla is under threat of closure, and how Tidal is leading the way in telling you who played bassoon on your favourite tracks. Setlist is sponsored by 7digital.

CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review key events in music and the music business from the last week, including new stats on the billions in royalties the songwriting industry is bringing in around the world, Ryanair and YouTube's new dalliances with ticketing, and new saviour of the record business UnitedMasters. Setlist is sponsored by 7digital.

CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review key events in music and the music business from the last week, including Universal Music Group's shiny new (kind of out of nowhere) $40 billion valuation, Google's new rules for ticket touts, and the Wu-Tang Clan's trademark beef with a New York dog walking business. Setlist is sponsored by 7digital.

CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review key events in music and the music business from the last week, including Birmingham City Council’s decision to revoke Rainbow Venues’ licence over drug-related deaths, the legal battle over who should own the late Walter Becker’s half of Steely Dan, plus a round up of interesting things Chris learned at this year’s Slush Music conference in Finland. Setlist is sponsored by 7digital.

CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review key events in music and the music business from the last week, including YouTube’s plans for (another) subscription-based music streaming service, why YouTube is disappearing from Amazon Fire TV devices, and the booming popularity of music on YouTube in 2017, despite everything. Setlist is sponsored by 7digital.

CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review key events in music and the music business from the last week, including Apple’s acquisition of Shazam, Spotify and Deezer calling on the EU to restrict tech giant “gatekeepers”, and the latest crackdown on illegal secondary ticketing. Setlist is sponsored by 7digital.