ABBA’s Bjorn Ulvaeus: ‘Songwriters Are Last in Line for Streaming Royalties’

HBO is developing a TV adaptation based on late author E.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorThe new Wasserman Music agency and livestreaming service Twitch have partnered to launch “There is Light,” an indie-centric channel and concert series. The series will present 20 live concerts from independent music venues in the U.S.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorBillie Eilish, Post Malone, Megan Thee Stallion A$AP Rocky, J Balvin, Da Baby and many more are scheduled to perform at the 10 th anniversary edition of Governors Ball, New York’s largest music festival, on the weekend of Sept. 24-26 at the the Citi Field complex in the city’s borough of Queens.Other top-billed performers include Rufus Du Sol, Ellie Goulding, Leon Bridges, 21 Savage, Young Thug, Phoebe Bridgers, Portugal.

Chris Willman Music WriterAnita Lane, an Australian singer-songwriter known for collaborating with Nick Cave and the Birthday Party as well as her own recordings, has died at 62.Cave paid tribute on social media, tweeting, “From her to eternity” — a perhaps inevitable eulogy, given that the song that went by that title was her most famous co-write and one of the most celebrated songs by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds.Lane first collaborated with Cave when he was a member of the Birthday Party.

photographer Bleddyn Butcher, who extensively documented Cave’s early years, later said: “Anita’s influence on Nick’s early thinking and creative confidence was catalytic. ”Lane and Cave continued to work together on songs on the second Birthday Party album, and she joined his next group, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorSpotify, the world’s top paid music-streaming service; Hybe, the company formerly known as Big Hit that spawned BTS; and Clubhouse, the actual-human-conversation-based social-media platform launched just last spring, have made Time magazine’s annual “100 Most Influential Companies” list.According to the announcement, “To assemble it, Time solicited nominations across sectors including health care, entertainment, transportation, technology and more, from our global

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media ReporterOscar Nunez has been cast in “The Lost City of D,” a romantic action adventure that stars Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum.It’s currently unknown who Nunez will play in the Paramount Pictures film, which centers on a romance novelist (Bullock), who gets stuck on a book tour with her cover model (Tatum).

Guy Lodge Film CriticTo take one glance at Joaquim Calçada, you might expect him to have a story as tall as his hair. Pushing 70 years of age, zipped tightly into a leather bomber as glossy and black as his shellacked pompadour, he has the look of a grizzled Elvis impersonator, way adrift in small-town Portugal.

ABBA biopics in the near future.Despite the success of biopics like Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody and Elton John’s Rocketman, Ulvaeus has vetoed the chances of an ABBA biopic appearing any time soon.Speaking to BBC Breakfast, Ulvaeus said: “I don’t think we would want that actually, I certainly know myself I wouldn’t want an actor – not while I’m alive – to play me on the big screen and I don’t think the others would like that either.”You can watch the interview below:Earlier this week (April

Jim Steinman was a songwriter whose hit compositions include Meat Loaf’s “Paradise by the Dashboard Light” and Bonnie Tyler’s “Total Eclipse of the Heart.”Steinman’s songwriting career took off after he wrote Meat Loaf’s 1977 debut album, “Bat Out of Hell.” It included the iconic “Paradise by the Dashboard Light” as well as the No.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorEver since the music industry began its streaming-fueled recovery around five years ago, the songwriting and publishing communities have been protesting not only the uneven payment structure of streaming — which sees recorded-music rights holders being paid three times what publishing is paid — but also the imbalanced power and payment structures of the music industry.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorSongwriters of North America (SONA) will launch its first ever SONA Warrior Awards on May 23, with legendary songwriter Paul Williams as the inaugural honoree.The virtual event will feature tributes and performances dedicated to Williams.

Abba’s Björn Ulvaeus this weekend teamed up with music business consultancy MIDiA to launch a new report called ‘Rebalancing The Song Economy’, another contribution to the ongoing debate around the economics of streaming, specifically from a songwriter perspective.The report reviews the impact that the shift to streams has had on the record industry and the songwriter community over the last fifteen years, as well as reviewing the impact of COVID on music-makers in general and the debates the

Amongst the highly-awaited movies up for release next year is Lost City of D, starring Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum.

ABBA’s Björn Ulvaeus has said a fairer payment model needs to be in place for songwriters.Writing in The Guardian, Ulvaeus said a new royalties model is needed if the industry is to see any kind of “risk-taking” or “creativity” from artists whose writing, he says, is being affected by the pressures of the “dysfunctional” current model.Ulvaeus said: “The dominant currency in streaming is individual songs; data shows that when people use a streaming platform such as Spotify, they search more for

Have you ever noticed Chrissy Teigen seems to post more photos of Luna than she does of Miles?

Brad Pitt is set to join Sandra Bullock‘s upcoming romantic action comedy Lost City of D! The role is being described as a cameo and not much info is known at this time.