Asid Kapadia had a dilemma. He had agreed to helm a documentary about Amy Winehouse, but the Senna director wasn’t sure there was a story left to tell about the late tabloid-hounded British singer. What convinced him to move forward? Footage of Winehouse, unearthed by a former manager, radiating joy in her early touring days. “This was a version…

The City of Chicago’s recent move to extend its 9 percent “amusement tax” to streaming services is an abuse of authority, claims the Liberty Justice Center in a lawsuit filed on Wednesday in a circuit court in Illinois….

Mark Ronson’s smash hit Uptown Funk! has become the fifth biggest-selling singlein British history – as his UK label, Columbia, celebrates an impressive milestone of its own….

Ask those in the record business about the markets that really matter to the global industry’s bottom line, and they’ll tell you about ‘the big three’. A few years ago, that would have meant the US, Japan and the UK. But these days, it’s the US, Japan and Germany –  the outstanding trio in terms…

Without proper license deals, the offer, which is in its early planning stages, wouldn’t be viable, says a trade group. The U.K. music industry’s trade group has warned the BBC about a music streaming service planned by the British public broadcaster, saying it must be underpinned by proper royalty deals.‎…

A British company backed by Universal Music Group has unveiled a new instrument – and Oscar-winning composer Hans Zimmer thinks it can take musicians “beyond the boundaries of the keyboard”….

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BMI has announced record revenue and royalty distributions for the fiscal year. The performing rights organization said on Thursday that it generated revenues of $1.013 billion during the period ending June 30, with $877 million of that going to its songwriters, composers and publishers….

Following the No. 1 arrival of The Weeknd‘s Beauty Behind the Madness on the Billboard 200 and Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (326,000 copies sold in the week ending Sept. 3, according to Nielsen Music), 10 of the set’s tracks debut on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart dated Sept. 19. Those 10 songs combine with two other smashes by The Weeknd, bringing him to a total of 12 concurrently charting…

A new presentation at the Apollo Theater featuring jazz icon Billie Holiday will give the Harlem, N.Y., venue bragging rights as the first theater in the U.S. to offer presentations incorporating hologram technology on an ongoing basis….