Category: Theindustryobserver

If the music industry had a frosty relationship with TikTok, Universal Music Group’s shot across its bows feels like the start of a cold war.…

Universal Music Group won’t be licensing content to TikTok after negotiations reportedly turned ugly and hit a wall. When the existing agreement expires today, Jan.…

Nominations are now open for the fourth annual Rolling Stone Australia Awards, which are returning to Sydney bigger and better than ever. Announced today, the…

Ex-Jaxsta CEO and major label marketing heavyweight Beth Appleton has surfaced at Fortress Australia. With immediate effect, the British-born executive is named as chief marketing…

Records tumbled as Triple J counted-down its Hottest 100 songs for 2023 on Saturday (Jan. 27) – the culmination of 2,355,870 votes cast. Doja Cat…

While Doja Cat was painting the town red last year, country music – and Luke Combs in particular – was having a mighty hoedown. Following…

Milly Petriella can now add OAM to her business card. The music industry veteran is awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in…

As the pandemic drifts out of view and morphs into a pub quiz question, Untitled Group posts its biggest-ever year. The Melbourne-based independent concert and…

Sonny Fodera’s relocation to the U.K. is about to pay off, again, with a top 40 hit. The Australian DJ and producer lends his talents…

Ricky Simandjuntak is stepping away from ONEFOUR, the controversial drill act that he guided from a project in Sydney’s Mount Druitt into one of the…

Ex-Triple J presenter and floor-filling DJ Ebony Boadu makes the leap into indie-label land with Mushroom Labels, where she takes duties as A&R manager. Announced…

Ed Sheeran’s connection with Australia is tough to overstate. It was Sheeran’s Divide trek of 2018 that smashed Dire Straits’ seemingly unbreakable record for tickets…

Vampr is throwing its considerable set of tools behind a new campaign for Coldplay protégé Emmanuel Kelly, one that sees both parties enter into new…

It’s a new year, and Yours Truly has new music, new management. The Sydney alternative rock act signs with UNIFIED Artist Management, where they’ll be…

Sometimes, a hit needs a lift. Honda Civic provided that for Empire of the Sun’s debut “Walking on a Dream,” which has jogged past one…

Like much of the music industry, I was extremely saddened to learn that Michael Taylor, the former Managing Director of Universal Music Australia, had lost…

After rolling out in the U.K., Australia and New Zealand, Surreal presses the button on its agent productivity tool for clients worldwide. From today, Jan.…

Mike Taylor’s life and brilliant career will be saluted later this week with a gathering of friends and family in his homeland, the United States.…

Mike Taylor has lost his battle with cancer. One of Australia’s most successful A&R executives, who, for many years was the highest-flying American-born and raised…

From Canberra to the world: Spotify is placing its bets on Teen Jesus and the Jean Teasers having a major breakthrough in the months ahead.…