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SONY MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT EUROPE and Microsoft Corp. are to collaborate on a European online music-video channel that will feature localized programming highlighting Sony artists. The videos will be streamed in [...]

CONDUCTOR SIR SIMON RATTLE was the big winner at the 23rd annual Gramophone Awards for classical music, presented Oct. 10 at London's Royal Festival Hall. Rattle took home awards for [...]

BRITISH COLLECTING BODY the Mechanical Copyright Protection Society (MCPS)-Performing Right Society (PRS) Alliance has restructured, forming a joint management board. The board comprises John Hutchinson, CEO of both societies, and [...]

U.K. MUSIC MONTHLY magazine Q is to have highlights of its annual awards show broadcast on national TV network Channel 4 this year. Two one-hour packages will be edited from [...]

HMV MEDIA GROUP reported sales of 298 million pounds ($435 million) for the 13 weeks ending July 29, up 11.1% from the same period last year. At constant exchange rates, [...]

THE U.K. ARM OF EUROPEAN E-TAILER Boxman has signed an agreement with cable operator NTL to offer a selection of CDs, videos, DVDs, and MiniDiscs through the latter's digital TV [...]

LONDON--The Warner/EMI merger, born in Sardinia, Italy, 56 weeks ago during a conference of senior EMI executives, fell to Earth Oct. 5 in London and Brussels, as the companies withdrew [...]

U.K. ROCK LABEL GROUP Revolver is shifting its distribution from the Sony/ Warner joint venture the Entertainment Network to Universal, effective Monday (2). Revolver aims to open the deal up [...]

MUSIC CHOICE, the Pan-European subscription Internet and digital TV music service, has named sales and marketing director Margot Daly as its COO, ahead of a planned flotation on the London [...]

LONDON-BASED BMG INTERNATIONAL has revamped its European marketing division. Richard Dinnadge, former director of BMG Classics U.K., has been named director of European marketing, overseeing the marketing of U.K.- and [...]

LONDON--Members of the U.K.'s Performing Right Society (PRS) heard government minister Janet Anderson confirm government support for rights owners in the digital age at the society's Sept. 22 annual general [...]

RCA RECORDS U.K. A&R executive Simon Cowell is launching a 50/50 joint-venture label with BMG Entertainment U.K. under a five-year deal. Future material from Cowell-signed RCA acts Westlife, Five, and [...]

BRITISH R&B VOCALIST CRAIG DAVID dominates the nominations for the MasterCard-sponsored MOBO (Music of Black Origin) 2000 Awards, to be presented Oct. 4 at London's Alexandra Palace. The teenage Wildstar [...]

LONDON-BASED CHANNELFLY, a company with interests in Webcasting, publishing, and live music venues, has linked with digital rights management clearinghouse and services company Magex in a marketing promotion that will [...]

CHANNELFLY.COM, the London-based music, media, and Internet group that recently was floated on London's Alternative Investment Market (BillboardBulletin, June 20), has teamed with national TV broadcaster Channel 4 and production [...]

TOON CHIN HO, managing director of London-based CD manufacturing plant Mayron Multimedia Ltd., and Charles Eley, owner of 'Rap'n Pac,' which assembles and boxes CDs, were sentenced July 21 to [...]

EMI EUROPE has named Cohn Daniels to the newly created position of senior director of A&R, effective Aug. 1. In his London-based role, Daniels will report to EMI Europe CEO [...]

LONDON--EMI Group chairman Eric Nicoli reassured shareholders at the company's annual genera! meeting (AGM) at London's Inter-Continental Hotel July 21 that the group is 'well-placed' to meet full-year growth targets. [...]

HMV U.K. has inked a promotional agreement with thisdayinmusic.com, a new music trivia-based Internet portal that links more than 250 artist sites, online radio stations, and related music sites. A [...]

SONY MUSIC has acquired Belgian indie label Double T Music for an undisclosed sum. It will integrate the Brussels-based imprint and its affiliates in the Netherlands, France, and Germany into [...]

LONDON-BASED INDEPENDENT LABEL Mute is opening a division in Germany and has inked a licensing agreement there with label/distributor group Play It Again Sam (PIAS). The new company Mute Tontr[ddot{a}]ger, [...]

THE U.K.'S PERFORMING RIGHT SOCIETY (PRS) has reported a 4% increase in revenue, up to 227 million pounds ($340.5 million) for the year ending Dec.31, 1999. Royalty distributions to music [...]

THIS YEAR'S TECHNICS MERCURY MUSIC PRIZE nominees for the annual U.K. album of the year award will he announced July 25. A music media panel will select a short-list of [...]

JACQUES CAMPET, Senior VP of finance, administration, and operations for Sony Music France, has been promoted to senior VP of Sony Music Europe (SME). In his new, London-based post, he [...]

U.S. DANCE ARTIST MOBY led the winners of the U.K.'s inaugural DanceStar Awards, presented June 1 in London. Moby won in the best album of the year category with 'Play' [...]

THE MAY 21 TELECAST of the U.K. record industry's inaugural Classical Brit Awards show drew a higher than-expected 4.4 million viewers, according to the national ITV network. An audience of [...]

LONDON -- Britain's domestic music market grew slightly to 224 million [pounds sterling] (euro 380 million) for the first quarter of 2000, as the strong pound continued to hit record […]

ROB DICKINS is joining the board of U.K. download site peoplesound.com. He will focus on marketing and distribution, business-to-business information, and directing marketing/syndication services. Dickins is chairman of Sony Music-backed [...]

THE U.K. PRERECORDED music market was flat in value terms during the first quarter of 2000, the British Phonographic Industry reported May17. Value of total trade shipments was 223.98 million [...]

MUSIC AND BROADCAST GROUP Chrysalis enjoyed its first pre-tax profits since 1995 in the six months ending Feb. 29, according to its latest half-year figures. The London-based group had pre-tax [...]

GERMAN MUSIC INDUSTRY LEADERS unveiled a 'virtual border seizure' technological system May 4 in Hamburg, hailing it as a potential breakthrough in the war against Internet music piracy. The board [...]

SONY CLASSICALS'S teenage operatic sensation Charlotte Church took the British artist of the year award at the U.K's inaugural Classical Brit Awards, presented May 6 at London's Royal Albert Hall [...]

BRITISH BUDGET MUSIC LABEL Hallmark has been acquired by publisher and distributor Audio Books and Music Holdings plc following the liquidation of parent Point Group Ltd. (BillboardBulletin, March 31). Hallmark [...]

BRITISH BUDGET music retailer Hallmark Music and Entertainment has been acquired by Audio Books and Music Holdings PLC, the publisher and distributor of audiobooks and music, following the liquidation of [...]

LONDON--A music industry report commissioned by the British government has highlighted the need for sweeping new legal and technological directives to cope with the online trading revolution. Unveiling the report [...]

EUROPEAN MUSIC COMPANY Point Group Ltd. has gone into receivership with debts totaling up to 10 million pounds ($15.59 million). Barclays Bank has appointed the Grant Thornton firm to handle [...]

Bon Jovi has been good to Australia--and its people have been particularly good in return. The veteran rock band's profile Down Under has proved unbreakable since Slippery When Wet climbed [...]

Affluent, music-loving, English-speaking and a long, long way over there. Such are the qualities of Australian music fans who have made their market a destination of choice for digital music [...]

Australians and New Zealanders travel well, and in recent years a cadre of recording artists from these parts enjoyed fantastic journeys of their own. The likes of Gotye, Tame Impala, [...]

MUSIC'S NEXT REVENUE STREAM: MOBILE The music business was valued at $23.3 billion worldwide in 2011, compared with $36.7 billion in 1999, according to IFPl's annual report. But it could [...]

Australia's live music sector is up there with the best in the world. It's a billion-dollar-plus industry with a white-hot festival market that runs year-round. And with the growth of [...]

Australia's music community is as deep with talent as it is dynamic. And thanks in part to the phenomenon that is Gotye, more ears are tuning in to the music [...]

The music market in Australia, like its counterparts elsewhere, has had its share of ups and downs in recent years. In 2011, however, it's been mostly up. A new wave [...]

As her surname might suggest, Australian newcomer Megan Washington is in capital form at the moment. The singer/ songwriter's gold-certified (35,000 units) album, '1 Believe You, Liar' (Mercury/Universal Music Australia), [...]

BRISBANE, Australia -- A roaring live scene, a stable record business, a powerful music merchant and a vibrant new guard of artists. Australia's music industry is gathering steam in the [...]

Amy Meredith sounds more like the name of a sensitive singer/songwriter than an all-male Australian rock quintet, but that hasn't slowed the band's growth. Its Sony Music Australia debut album, [...]

Europe's hottest summer hit, 'We No Speak Americano,' comes all the way from Sydney. An Australian top five hit in June, the club anthem has been climbing charts across Europe [...]

In February 2009, before the Aussie record biz even knew of alt-rock act Violent Soho's existence, it signed to Universal-distributed Ecstatic Peace, the label helmed by the band's hero, Sonic [...]

Rumors about the death of free, on-demand music services have been greatly exaggerated. The Australian ad-supported music service Guvera will emerge from a closed beta test March 30 to launch [...]

In musical terms, Katie Noonan is a great explorer--since her 1998 recording debut in alt-rock band George, the Australian singer's career has expanded to take in jazz and classical music. [...]