Music industry headlines: March 14, 2017
Here’s the music industry news you need to know this morning.
- Amazon Tickets general manager Geraldine Wilson: Amazon will not be moving into the secondary ticketing – via MusicAlly
- Spirit Music Group acquires 150,000 tracks as it launches Production Music division – via MBW
- Adele is wheeled onstage undercover in a flight case each night while audiences assume it’s a piece of kit – via Digital Spy
- Austin-based band White Denim has a new song out on Spotify today, but you can only listen to it if it’s raining where you are – via The Verge
- Katy Perry was paid £1.2 million to perform at the wedding of the property tycoon Nick Candy to Australian singer/actress Holly Valance – via The Times UK
- YouTube launches Uptime, an experimental app for watching videos with friends – via TechCrunch
- An amendment to the Digital Economy Bill means it will be illegal to use “bots” to bypass limits on the maximum number of tickets that can be bought – via BBC
- Sony/ATV Music Publishing is celebrating a full year at No.1 on the UK singles chart, having published or co-published every chart-topper for the past 12 months – via Music Week
- George Michael left his £10m London mansion to his older sister, Melanie Panayiotou – via Daily Mail
- Vevo has announced that it’s going to move its European HQ to the grade II listed Lighthouse building in London’s Kings Cross – via CMU
- SoundCloud may sell for less than the $700m investors thought it was worth a few years ago. May sell for $250 million in desperate bid to raise cash – via Recode
- Justin Bieber pictured spending time with actress Georgie Jennings while in Australia – via Instagram
This article originally appeared on The Industry Observer, which is now part of The Music Network.
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