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• Spotify UK Is No Longer a Profitable Business

  14-10-2015 21:05
  
   
  It was the shining beacon of light that Spotify loved to point to: a profitable, growing British division.  But Spotify’s once-proud, once-profitable UK operation is now in the red, with potentially huge implications for the company and the broader streaming music industry.  According to financial filings obtained by the UK Companies House this (Wednesday) morning, the critical Spotify subsidiary lost £1.21 million ($1.87 million) in the previous year, despite
  
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• How You Can Be Part Of WWE's Divas Revolution...

  14-10-2015 19:33
  
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• Jay Z heads to court for Big Pimpin' copyright trial in long-running lawsuit

  14-10-2015 19:30
  
  The music mogul and his producer Timbaland are accused of using a sample of Baligh Hamdi’s Khosara Khosara in their 1999 hit Big Pimpin’ without permissionJay Z is set to testify in court in Los Angeles on Wednesday as a drawn-out copyright infringement lawsuit stemming from his 1999 hit single Big Pimpin’ finally comes to a conclusion.Jay Z (real name Sean Carter) and Timbaland, who produced the track, have been accused of using the flute melody from Baligh Hamdi’s 1957
  
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• Zayn Malik Has Grown A Beard To Rival All The One Direction Beards There Ever Were

  14-10-2015 18:47
  
  Don't shoot the messenger.
  
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• Olly Murs Shows Off Incredible Body Transformation After 12 Week Fitness Regime

  14-10-2015 18:15
  
  He's definitely got the X-Factor…
  
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• Victoria's Secret fashion show: Will Rihanna debut music from new album Anti on the runway?

  14-10-2015 18:14
  
  It will be her first performance in months, so speculation is rife that Rihanna will debut music from her long-awaited new album during her performance at the Victoria's Secret fashion show later in 2015. Rumours emerged after the Diamonds singer was confirmed to hit the runway alongside the likes of Selena Gomez and The Weeknd. Rihanna, 27, will appear as a musical guest at the prestigious show which is set to take place in New York on 8 December.
  
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• Pandora Preparing to Pay $90 Million for Pre-1972 Recordings

  14-10-2015 18:11
  
   
  That’s according to the New York Post, which is now reporting that Pandora has agreed to settle over the contentious issue of pre-1972 recordings.  Specifically, the legal question has been whether companies like Pandora are responsible for paying performance royalties for recordings released prior to that date.
  The $90 million payout would pale in comparison to a recently-ordered $210 million for Sirius XM Radio, though Pandora’s settlement apparently only covers 2
  
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• One Direction: Liam Payne admits Zayn Malik quitting boy band was 'disaster situation'

  14-10-2015 17:57
  
  1D singer Liam Payne says that while his bandmates have moved on, Malik deciding to leave the group was a "disaster situation". Reflecting on his departure, Payne told ITV's Good Morning Britain on 14 October: "One Direction was never really Zayn's kind of bag, if you know what I mean. Payne and bandmates Harry Styles, Louis Tomlinson and Niall Horan are preparing to release One Direction's fifth studio album, Made In The A.M., on 13 November 2015.
  
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• Some American Students Are Using Dildos To Protest Gun Laws

  14-10-2015 17:47
  
  Brings a whole new meaning to ‘make love, not war’.
  
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• Garrett Hedlund Confirms He Turned Down Fifty Shades of Grey

  14-10-2015 17:47
  
  The 'Pan' star reveals that the rumours surrounding him and 'FIfty Shades of Grey' are true…
  
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• A Woman Has Been Arrested For Drink Driving After Streaming The Whole Thing On Periscope

  14-10-2015 17:38
  
  Because that's a sensible idea.
  
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• Joe Nichols and more country stars who don't like their own records

  14-10-2015 17:36
  
  Nichols said that if it were up to him, he’d make old-style country music, but he’d never get on the radio – or make money. Yet being artistically bold builds a more satisfying career in the long run, and creates better records“Authenticity” is a word that gets thrown around a lot in conversations about country music. The genre is famous for being centred around storytelling and rife with artists that invoke heartfelt life experiences in their songs. While pop music
  
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• Kids React To The New Minecraft & It's The Best Thing You’ll See All Day

  14-10-2015 17:32
  
  All you need to know, direct from our 6 year old Minecraft expert.
  
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• Vince McMahon Beats Who He Wants......

  14-10-2015 17:17
  
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• Philip Anselmo: 'I ain’t trying to educate a single soul. I’m just writing rock ‘n’ roll'

  14-10-2015 16:55
  
  As Pantera prepare to release History of Hostility, a nine-track LP of their greatest tracks, we look back in the Rock’s Backpages archive to 1994, when frontman Philip Anselmo spoke to Kerrang!’s Steffan ChiraziThe Warfield theatre, San Francisco. As Pantera arrive here for two gigs, their seventh album, Far Beyond Driven, has just hit the US top 100 at No 1. This leaves Pantera with a set of problems and schedules they only seem ready to meet halfway. There are photo sessions, vide
  
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• Charlotte Crosby Twerks Upside Down In New Video And She's Mint At It!

  14-10-2015 16:53
  
  The Geordie Shore lass shows off her moves during a tour of her crib...
  
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• UK firm appeals to digital music refuseniks with Jukebox service

  14-10-2015 16:52
  
  A British start-up has launched a music streaming service dubbed the Electric Jukebox that, for an annual fee, plugs into the back of a television for music fans who do not want to fiddle with app-based monthly subscription services. Ever since illegal downloads destroyed the traditional model of selling music via CDs, the music industry has been trying to find new ways to sell songs, either via streaming services such as Spotify, single sale downloads via the likes of Apple , or ad-funded video
  
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• Bach: Goldberg Variations; Beethoven: Diabelli Variations; Rzewski The People United CD review

  14-10-2015 16:48
  
  Igor Levit
  (Sony Classical)Igor Levit’s first recording for Sony was of Beethoven’s last five piano sonatas, and his second of Bach’s six keyboard partitas. His latest release features monumental works by both of those composers, alongside one of the great achievements of late 20th-century piano music, and this is, if anything, an even more demanding and nervelessly accomplished collection.Related: Igor Levit: the leaner, meaner piano machineContinue reading...
  
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• Disclosure - 'Jaded' (Jammer remix)

  14-10-2015 16:47
  
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• Celebrity Insta Injuries

  14-10-2015 16:33
  
  When celebrities take oversharing to a gruesome new level...
  
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• Andrew Shore: some of my favourite buffo comic roles

  14-10-2015 16:32
  
  He’s always wanted to play a panto dame, eyebrows are crucial, and the best singers are those that simply listen to the music. The great buffo-baritone talks us through some of his greatest comic roles for English National OperaAndrew Shore has been performing with English National Opera for 28 years, and is currently rehearsing his 35th role for the company, Fra Melitone in Verdi’s The Force of Destiny. He’s in demand at opera houses from Bayreuth to Buenos Aires to Barcelona,
  
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• Jurassic World Cast Play ‘Would You Rather?: JURASSIC EDITION’

  14-10-2015 15:58
  
  Bryce Dallas Howard and co answer the BIG questions.
  
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• Little Mix Recreating *THAT* Scene From Titanic Gives Us So Much Life

  14-10-2015 15:53
  
  #SquadGoals
  
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• Don Pasquale review – a revival brings charm and warmth

  14-10-2015 15:52
  
  Glyndebourne, Lewes
  The 2011 production of Donizetti’s comic opera, revived for Glydebourne’s touring arm, has lost its hard-edged approach and is a much more satisfactory experience for it Related: Die Entführung … review – visual delights and strong cast for Glyndebourne's tour Mariame Clément’s production of Donizetti’s Don Pasquale has improved with time. Its hard-edged approach to a work often considered cruel resulted in charges of cynicism
  
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• Editors review – 'We've had nightmares about this'

  14-10-2015 15:44
  
  Hammersmith Apollo, London
  Crippled by sound problems, the band plays on – and there is a charged atmosphere for their shortened set of brooding indie disco“If something has to change, then it always does,” sings Tom Smith, with the same gloomy resignation he first revealed in 2005 with Editors’ debut single, Bullets. A decade on, the band have weathered the departure of a founder member and evolved their sound from post-punk indie disco to U2-aping stadium rock and, with
  
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• Sting On Reinventing Sting In WCW

  14-10-2015 15:36
  
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• Fitkin Band – the frustration was not being able to get up and dance

  14-10-2015 15:28
  
  Taliesin Arts Centre, Swansea
  The nine-piece’s rhythms pulsed infectiously with Bee Gee-style highlights in this finessed feel-good performance Pinned to a seat in Taliesin Arts Centre, the single frustration of this altogether feel-good performance by the Fitkin Band – led by composer-pianist Graham Fitkin – was not being able to get up and dance. Anyone knowing Fitkin’s music from the numerous scores he’s written for dance companies will recognise that wholly infe
  
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• Is Genius and the art of annotation starting to come of age?

  14-10-2015 15:24
  
  After some false starts and PR disasters the annotation site is becoming a vital resource in a world where information overload is the defaultThe annotations site Rap Genius was founded in 2009, but it came to prominence three years later, when it received $15m in venture capital funding. The founders of the Brooklyn-based site, awash in cash, rented a Malibu beach house, where they hung out with their favorite rappers and passed a volcano vaporizer.But the party threatened to end early. The sit
  
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• The Stooges – 10 of the best

  14-10-2015 15:22
  
  Everyone loves the Stooges now, but everyone hated them when they first emerged. After the death of saxophonist Steve Mackay, here are 10 songs that define the original punksIt was after smoking his first joint, while hanging out at a Detroit sewage works one night that Iggy Pop (formerly Jim Osterberg – the “Iggy” was a tribute to his old garage band the Iguanas, the Pop a reference to a friend, Jim Pop, with a nervous condition that gave him alopecia) experienced a revelation
  
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• Could CM Punk Return To The WWE?

  14-10-2015 15:14
  
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• This Band Lost $3,000 At Their Record Release Show in LA

  14-10-2015 15:03
  
  I need to start off by saying that an incredible album dropped last week. You should go and listen to Vulfpeck’s Thrill of The Arts right now. It’s funky. It grooves. It’s soulful. There are some fantastic guest vocalists on there. And guitarist Blake Mills (producer of my favorite album of the year, Sound and Color by Alabama Shakes) is on it.
  Go listen to it on Spotify. Why? For the irony of course. The reason the name Vulfpeck sounds familiar to you is most likely because y
  
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• OMG! Has Harry Styles Broken His Foot?

  14-10-2015 14:54
  
  Or is he just wearing Niall's moon boot? We're not sure...
  
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• Malcolm-Jamal Warner celebrates Grammy win with new music

  14-10-2015 14:42
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Malcolm-Jamal Warner poured his real-life experiences — both in and out of love — into his latest album, "Selfless."
  
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• The Cast Of Pretty Little Liars Reveal Who’s Taken And Who’s Single After The Five-Year Time Jump

  14-10-2015 14:08
  
  Is your OTP still together?
  
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• Jay-Z And Timbaland Face Music Over Copyright

  14-10-2015 14:08
  
  Jay-Z is set to testify in court later - as he and fellow rapper Timbaland battle a copyright infringement lawsuit. The music moguls have been accused of misusing the melody of an Egyptian love ballad from the 1950s, Khosara Khosara, in the 1999 hit single Big Pimpin'. On the opening day of the trial, lawyers said Timbaland had used elements of Baligh Hamdi's song thinking it was royalty-free - but later paid $100,000 (£65,140) to EMI Music Arabia for the licence.
  
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• Music on your TV – Britain gets its rival to Spotify and Tidal

  14-10-2015 13:52
  
  Electric Jukebox isn’t an app and charges no monthly fees – but will customers want to pay £179 for a new device to play music?It has become a music industry mantra that streaming is the future of music, yet the public have been notably unexcited about the prospect of paying monthly subscriptions to use an app. Launches this year from Tidal, run by Jay Z, and Apple have been met with more shrugs of indifference than shrieks of excitement, but a new British company hopes to buck
  
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• Mark Ronson becomes patron of Amy Winehouse Foundation

  14-10-2015 13:39
  
  The 40-year-old music producer is to lead a special performance to the singer, whom he worked with on the album Back To Black, at the fourth annual Foundation gala.
  
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• From Bat For Lashes to David Lynch: 10 years of Loud and Quiet magazine

  14-10-2015 13:30
  
  To celebrate a decade of Loud and Quiet magazine, they’re throwing an exhibition of stellar rock photography. Editor Stuart Stubbs takes us through some of his favourite shots10 Years of Loud & Quiet magazine is at Oslo, Hackney from 23 October until 13 November. Entry is free.Continue reading...
  
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• The Biggest Festivals In America, by US State

  14-10-2015 13:29
  
  Thanks to Promotions Now, we now have a visual map outlining the zonal popularity of the biggest music festivals in the US.  The festivals were selected depending on various factors such as popularity of line-up acts, number of attendants, media coverage, and the general buzz surrounding the festival.
  Some are very obvious, like Coachella for California and The Governor’s Ball for New York, etc., but some are less obvious.
  What’s special about this map is it
  
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• Get An Exclusive Behind-The-Scenes Look At Charli XCX's Brand New Boohoo Fashion Range

  14-10-2015 13:23
  
  We've added every item to our Christmas list...
  
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• Jennifer Lawrence Has Said A Big “F**k That“ To Sexism In Hollywood

  14-10-2015 12:42
  
  The actress got real in a kick-ass essay.
  
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• Will The BBC Be Axing The Voice After The Show Sparks Interest With ITV?

  14-10-2015 12:39
  
  The BBC are allegedly set to sign a new three-year-deal...
  
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• WSTRN Drop Brand New Video For 'In2'

  14-10-2015 12:37
  
  See article for more.
  
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• Robbie Williams, Alesha Dixon back TV plug-in music streaming service

  14-10-2015 12:32
  
  Robbie Williams and Alesha Dixon are among the musicians who have lent their support to a new music streaming device that promises to challenge Spotify and Apple Music.
  
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• Scott Disick Breaks Down & Kendall & Kylie Fall Out Over Tyga In New Keeping Up With The Kardashians Trailer

  14-10-2015 12:29
  
  There’s never a quiet time, is there?
  
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• Gary Numan to receive Q Awards' Innovation In Sound gong

  14-10-2015 12:14
  
  The synth-pop star is being honoured with the award previously won by Mark Ronson, Sigur Ros and The Prodigy.
  
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• Stephen Bear Says Getting Back With Vicky Is On The Cards And He Even Wants To Marry Her

  14-10-2015 11:56
  
  #AskBear
  
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• Kylie Jenner Slams Trolls Who Say She Is 'More Plastic Than Barbie'

  14-10-2015 11:38
  
  The 18 year old has no time for haters.
  
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• Caroline Flack ‘Broke Her Arm’ And Decided To Let Us All See It

  14-10-2015 11:38
  
  THANKS.
  
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• Meet MTV Breaks EMA Digital Correspondent Winner Reanne

  14-10-2015 11:07
  
  Not long until she joins us in Milan!
  
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