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Brexit makes touring Europe ‘simply not viable’ for musicians, minister admits | The Independent

Exclusive: Chris Bryant says the government ‘fully recognises the scale of challenges facing professionals wishing to tour in Europe’ Mr Gethins told The Independent: “For years we have known that a disastrous Brexit deal is damaging our important music industry. It makes music and promotion of our artists much harder and in particular difficult for new and emerging talent.And its annual economic report said Brexit has been a “catastrophe” for the sector, with artists still seeing fewer invites to perform in the EU because of the difficulty of bringing UK artists to the EU.UK-based songwriter Victoria Canal said: “Brexit is hell. It is expensive logistically, navigating routing and carnets, and it puts pressure on all of us. Whether you are an artist or crew, touring has a deep effect on mental health.”It’s the Ed Sheeran’s and the Coldplays of the future who are suffering now. Chris Bryant has simply said what our Face The Music campaign has been highlighting – the government needs to help our creative touring artists before it’s too late, and we permanently damage one of the UK’s best global exports – its culture.

Sarah Cunningham: Body found in search for missing artist

Police were called to Chalk Farm Underground station where a body was found on the tracks. A body thought to be that of Sarah Cunningham has been found, after the artist went missing in north London in the early hours of Saturday.

That famous artist you love probably isn't as rich as you think

In 2024, artists can't survive on talent or fame alone. Streaming, TikTok, inflation, and the ballooning costs of touring have altered a musician's routes to making money. But in 2024, artists who want a sustainable career can't survive on talent or even fame alone. They now have to strategically post on social media, design cost-efficient tours, and navigate the complex web of legal and financial bureaucracy necessary for their work.But while it's still possible to live lavishly off the back of one song, like a classic sitcom theme or a holiday staple, that's the exception, not the rule: Whether the artist actually makes money on a song depends on a myriad of factors, including complex copyright rules.Royalty distribution — how artists and others who own copyrights get paid — is a many-headed beast, but reliable industry estimates have put Spotify's payout rate at less than half a cent per stream, while Apple Music in 2021 was said to have told artists it paid about one penny per stream.There are perks unique to the streaming era — Two Door Cinema Club's Baird notes that it provides a level of granularity to data about listener interests and tastes that can help artists decide how to market and create music — but mostly, it's a lot of work for not a lot of payoff.

Marijuana grow facility uses local artist’s work on limited edition canisters

Wright was the winner of a contest that drew 100 artists. The company paid him $5,000. Brian Kessler of Riviera Creek unveiled the two paintings by Niles tattoo artist Cory Wright. The pieces are now used on a limited edition of 1,500 canisters containing Riviera Creek’s Stambaugh Marijana product.

10 Musicians Who SHOULD Have Won the Grammy Award for Best New Artist

The 2025 Grammy nominations have been released, including Best New Artist. Look back at some of the worst calls in Grammy history with these shocking Best New Artist omissions. Last week the Recording Academy of America announced the nominations for the 67th Grammy Awards, which will be presented on February 2, 2025. Among them were the nominations for Best New Artist, a category that honors emerging musicians who broke big the previous year; the 2025 Best New Artist nominees include big names like Chappell Roan, Sabrina Carpenter, Shaboozey, Doechii, etc.While many legends were rightfully bestowed that honor — Adele, The Beatles, Mariah Carey, Alicia Keys — there are plenty more Best New Artist winners that have either quickly imploded after receiving the award, or never achieved liftoff in the first place.We love “Boogie Oogie Oogie.” It’s a disco classic! But A Taste of Honey is essentially a one-hit wonder. Meanwhile, rock band The Cars already had TWO Top 40 songs — “Just What I Needed” and “My Best Friend’s Girl” — by the time the band lost Best New Artist.The 1973 winner for Best New Artist has a slew of super-catchy songs, and in truth, when it won it was the bigger act — “A Horse With No Name” from 1972 hit No. 1 on the charts, while The Eagles’ “Witchy Woman” was that band’s biggest hit from the same year, peaking at No.

13 hit songs hated by the musicians who wrote them | The Independent

We all have those tunes that just get under our skin, but what happens when it’s one you came up with in the first place? Kevin E G Perry takes a look at artists who’ve come to loathe their own creations Songwriters spend their whole lives trying to hone and craft their music in such a way that it will strike a chord with listeners, but sometimes they just end up getting on their own nerves. Often it’s the songs that become an artist’s most popular hits that can drive their creators to distraction, especially if they start to feel like their entire oeuvre has become reduced to a one-hit wonder punchline.These days Ariana Grande is a pop behemoth. With over 98 billion global streams the Florida-born singer is one of the most listened-to artists in the world, but her transition from Nickelodeon child star to musician didn’t get off to the smoothest start.The lyric of the chorus was lifted from a translation of a Chinese government propaganda poster published after the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989, while the song itself was the band’s attempt to write a bubblegum pop song. Stipe has since described it as being “primarily written for children”. The frontman also openly said the song has “limited appeal” to him but always stopped short of outright denigrating it.

Coldplay gift of studio time for young musicians in Frome

The band has donated £14,000 so young people can experience a professional recording studio.

From Taylor Swift to Bruce Springsteen: A complete timeline of the musicians who rejected Trump | The Independent

Few former presidents have inspired such strong reactions from some of the biggest names in the music industry From ordering him to stop playing their music to calling out his politics, some of the highest-profile artists in the world have aligned themselves against the former president, who is campaigning in the 2024 election against Democratic candidate Kamala Harris.The outspoken artist brands the US president an “embarrassment” to America and lambasts his approval rating, which has dropped to 34 per cent, as a prestigious polling site also deems him more unpopular than any other president in the history of modern polling.Black Sabbath frontman and solo artist Ozzy Osbourne and his wife/manager Sharon Osbourne lash out at Trump’s use of his song, “Crazy Train” in a clip posted to X/Twitter following the 2020 democratic debates, and ban him from using any of Osbourne’s music in future.In the same month, Trump receives cease-and-desist orders from artists including Celine Dion (for playing “My Heart Will Go On”, Foo Fighters (for “My Hero”), the family of Isaac Hayes (for using “Hold On, I’m Comin’” again), Jack White (for playing “Seven Nation Army” by the White Stripes) and ABBA (for multiple songs).

Kelpies artist brings new sculpture to Minnesota

"With the development of the stadium, a lot of people are holding onto their property, waiting for the value to go up and in doing so, are limiting the development of the area. But as the stadium develops, I think we’ll see that change.” · Others are less convinced. ... Fox Willis is an artist ... "With the development of the stadium, a lot of people are holding onto their property, waiting for the value to go up and in doing so, are limiting the development of the area. But as the stadium develops, I think we’ll see that change.” · Others are less convinced. ... Fox Willis is an artist who has lived in the area for five years.Sculptor Andy Scott was commissioned to create a sculpture outside the stadium of Minnesota United FC.And if it looks familiar to Scottish audiences, that’s because it was designed by the same artist who created the Kelpies."Some are making good observations about the city and how it needs help in other directions but they’re putting it in the context that was intended that it’s about enhancing that environment and other social issues aren’t really the remit of the artist so let’s see it as a catalyst for onward improvement.”

Musicians Who Were Signed to Diddy's Label Bad Boy Records - Business Insider

Over the last 30 years, Diddy's label Bad Boy Records has released music from artists like Machine Gun Kelly, Janelle Monaé, and Yung Joc. Before the criminal charges in September 2024, including charges of racketeering and sex trafficking, Diddy had begun the process of reverting the publishing rights of many of Bad Boy's most famous songs to their original artists, provided they signed agreements, as reported by Billboard.Biggie was one of the first artists signed to Bad Boy, and his two studio albums ("Ready to Die" in 1994 and "Life After Death," which was released 16 days after his death in 1997) were released through Bad Boy.Over the years, Bad Boy and its founder gained a reputation for being difficult to work with, highlighted by multiple public instances of friction between artists and the label.Evans said she left Bad Boy because she felt Diddy and the label were paying more attention to other artists, but she emphasized that there was no bad blood.