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News May 19, 2017

SiriusXM restarts talks with Pandora’s banks, L.A. Reid’s replacement named, and more

SiriusXM restarts talks with Pandora’s banks, L.A. Reid’s replacement named, and more

Here’s all the music industry news you need to know this morning.

smoothfm celebrates five years on air – via RadioToday

Twitter hires a new GM of revenue products – via TechCrunch

SiriusXM has recently restarted talks with Pandora’s banks and is discussing the size of a potential offer, sources said. – via NYPost

David Bowie was the most popular recording artist in the UK last year, with the equivalent of more than 1.6m albums bought or streamed. – via Guardian

The FCC officially proposes to end net neutrality rules  – via TechCrunch

Google’s AI research team, Google Magenta, recently announced  Neural Synthesizer, or NSynth, which generates audio using deep neural networks and will be demonstrating it this week. – via Mashable

Spotify’s operating loss rose to between $350 million to $450 million last year, up from $205 million in 2015 – via Hypebot

Skepta Wins Songwriter of the Year and Best Contemporary Song at The Ivor Novello Awards – via Guardian

Paris Jackson has written a song that she’d like Paul McCartney to sing. – via Noise11

The Killers’ Mr Brightside was the most-streamed song released before 2010. – via BBC

This article originally appeared on The Industry Observer, which is now part of The Music Network.

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