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This week **Music streaming royalties strike a bum note **The BBC screw turns again Media Moment of the Week Elon Musk is no stranger to social media spats. His indiscretions on Twitter have moved stock markets, led to a highly-publicised defamation suit and landed him a $20m fine. So there was some surprise when Tesla listed a job advert for someone whose responsibilities included defending the brash billionaire from social media trolls. Image: Twitter/@jaymboller Tesla hastily removed this sentence following the online ridicule, but the position is still up for grabs. Perhaps the social med...

Glastonbury has been cancelled for the second year running due to the coronavirus pandemic, festival organisers confirmed today.

Hipgnosis boss: Music industry at risk from ‘gluttonous’ record labels Hipgnosis founder Merck Mercuriadis said there was not a "fair and equitably" split of music royalties (Getty Images for SXSW) The music industry is under threat from “gluttonous” record labels taking royalties away from artists and songwriters, the boss of music investment firm Hipgnosis has said. Merck Mercuriadis accused the major record companies of “trying to take everything for themselves”, warning that some artists were unable to survive off royalty income as a result. “The biggest thr...

British musicians ‘shamelessly failed’ over post-Brexit touring Liam Gallagher was among more than 100 major British musicians to sign the letter (Getty Images) Musicians have been “shamelessly failed” by the government over the failure to secure visa-free touring after Brexit, some of the UK’s biggest music stars have said. Sir Elton John, Ed Sheeran and Liam Gallagher are among more than 100 signatories on a damning open letter that warns many performers could be “tipped over the edge” due to a “negotiating failure”. The UK’s post-Brexit trading agreemen...

The EU is “letting down music on both sides of the Channel” over a failure to grant visas to touring artists, the culture secretary has said.