Complete Music Update

Complete Music Update, which started out as College Music Update, is commonly referred to as CMU or the CMU Daily. It serves as a music news platform and website tailored for professionals in the UK music industry and media. The service mainly focuses on delivering news and insights related to the music business, music media, and the broader music scene. One of its standout features is the daily email newsletter, known as the CMU Daily. The current editor overseeing its operations is Andy Malt.

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Publishers are making over $11 billion across sixteen key markets - with digital accounting for nearly half

4 days ago | completemusicupdate.com | Chris Cooke

Digital platforms are now driving nearly half of all music publisher revenues across key markets, with streaming services and other digital platforms fuelling growth in the song rights business. That’s according to a new study that puts the spotlight on sixteen major markets, where publishers and writers together generate more than $11 billion in annual revenues. In those sixteen markets combined, digital accounts for 47.1% of publisher income.
Yout stream ripper could face prison as Brazil pushes ahead with criminal copyright case

4 days ago | completemusicupdate.com | Chris Cooke

The operator of popular stream-ripping service Yout faces up to four years in a Brazilian prison after a judge refused to dismiss criminal copyright charges against him, setting up a high-stakes August hearing. The music industry will be following the case closely to see if the criminal charges stick, given most stream-ripping cases to date have been civil lawsuits filed by copyright owners.
Sean Combs assistant talks of Diddy’s “violent rages” in trial testimony

1 week ago | completemusicupdate.com | Chris Cooke

Another key witness took the stand this week in the ongoing criminal trial against Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs, who faces charges of sex trafficking and racketeering. A former assistant of Combs, testifying anonymously and referred to in court as Mia, claimed that she was sexually assaulted multiple times during the eight years that she worked for the musician. She also described how, during that time, she lived in constant fear of Combs’ “violent rages”.
NYC backs plan to hike streaming prices by 50% to pay musicians as much as $40k a year each

1 week ago | completemusicupdate.com | Chris Cooke

New York City Council has thrown its weight behind proposed federal legislation in the US that would add a 50% levy to streaming service subscriptions, with the additional revenue flowing direct to artists and session musicians rather than through record labels and music distributors. It’s a proposal that could see musicians better off to the tune of $40,000 or more each year.
Major labels face setback as Trump’s pet DOJ legal beagle sides with Cox in piracy battle

1 week ago | completemusicupdate.com | Chris Cooke

The US music industry’s billion dollar victory against online piracy faces its biggest threat yet after Donald Trump’s appointee as Solicitor General at the Department Of Justice has urged the Supreme Court to review the landmark ruling against internet service provider Cox Communications, arguing that it conflicts with established law and could cut off internet access for millions of Americans.
TRNSMT pulls Kneecap performance over “safety concerns”

1 week ago | completemusicupdate.com | Chris Cooke

Kneecap have been removed from the line-up of this year’s TRNSMT festival in Glasgow “due to concerns expressed by the police about safety at the event”. The news has prompted a flurry of Google searches and social media posts enquiring as to how TRNSMT ticket-holders might go about getting a refund, according to the Glasgow Times.
Ten UK music festivals cancelled following collapse of Wannasee Ltd

1 week ago | completemusicupdate.com | Chris Cooke

Ten UK music festivals have been cancelled, and the future of two more hangs in the balance, after events company Wannasee Ltd announced this week that “we’ve reached a point where continuing is no longer possible”. In a statement, the festival promoter says that “the impact of a difficult trading environment, combined with a sudden collapse in customer confidence, has left the business unable to recover”.
We are just another victim in the shameful lineage of Apple intimidation and bullying, cries Musi

1 week ago | completemusicupdate.com | Chris Cooke

Yet more back and forth in the lively - and increasingly tetchy - legal battle between Apple and music app Musi. After kicking Musi out of its App Store last year, earlier this month Apple called for Musi to be sanctioned by the court due to its behaviour in the ongoing legal dispute between the two companies. Musi has now responded, and insists that, actually, it’s Apple that should be sanctioned… mainly for trying to get Musi sanctioned.
“Israeli lobbyists” want Kneecap shut out of Glasto, says band

1 week ago | completemusicupdate.com | Chris Cooke

Kneecap have said that “Israeli lobbyists” want to silence the band by putting pressure on venues and festivals - including Glastonbury - to cancel their bookings. That allegation came during the group’s headline set at London’s Wide Awake festival on Friday, during which band members claimed that the lobbyist pressure is designed partly to end their on-stage support for Palestine, but also to discourage other artists from speaking out about the ongoing conflict in Gaza.
Lambeth Council magics up new paperwork in Brockwell Live spat, but NIMBYs are still not satisfied

1 week ago | completemusicupdate.com | Chris Cooke

Four festivals took place in London’s Brockwell Park this weekend after Lambeth Council issued new paperwork at the very last minute certifying that the events could legally proceed, just a week after the high court cancelled another similar certificate that the local authority had previously provided. However, the controversy over the festivals contines.