Music Industry Moves: Obama Administration Vet Mona Sutphen to Join Spotify Board, Brooklyn Made Hires Charlie Adler

Just in time for Oscar season, Amazon Studios is bringing three of its award contenders to the Criterion Collection, the first time the studio’s had a movie make it to the collection since 2018. READ MORE: ‘Fast Times,’ ‘Nightmare Alley’ & More Join The Criterion Collection In May IndieWire reports that Darius Marder‘s “Sound of Metal,” Regina King‘s “One Night in Miami,” and Garrett Bradley‘s “Time” will join the prestigious Criterion Collection.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorSteve Greenberg, founder of S-Curve Records, is leaving the company, which he founded two decades ago and sold to BMG in 2015, he confirmed to Variety.

Janet Jackson has dominated the pop music industry for almost 4 decades now. As a prominent figure in the music industry, the star is all set to tell her story in the form of a two-part documentary.

coronavirus pandemic.Among the measures announced by Sunak today is the extension of the UK’s furlough scheme into September and further financial support for self-employed people during the pandemic.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorUniversal Music Publishing has signed rising British singer-songwriter Holly Humberstone, whose debut EP received a rave review in Variety last fall, to an exclusive, global publishing agreement. The 21-year-old singer was voted No.

Gwen Stefani, John Legend and Pink are looking to add a new award to their collections! On Friday, ET's Rachel Smith exclusively announced that all three artists earned their first ACM Awards nominations ahead of the April ceremony.Pink and Stefani are both nominated in the Music Event of the Year category, the former for her and Keith Urban's track, «One Too Many,» and the latter for the song «Nobody But You,» which she recorded with her fiancé, Blake Shelton.

Madison Beer has discussed feeling “very silenced” by older men in the music industry.The singer, who releases her debut album ‘Life Support’ today (February 26), was speaking to NME in a new cover feature.In the interview, Beer reflected on being dictated to by record executives, before learning “how to stand my ground”.“I’ve also learned how to pick my battles,” she said of her responses to the comments.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorIn its pursuit of carbon neutrality, BMG has committed to offsetting all of its global site and employee-related greenhouse gas emissions, the company announced. In defining a long-term strategy to avoid, reduce, and offset CO2 emissions, BMG revealed it had offset over 3,000 tons of CO2 produced in 2019 by investing in Verified Carbon Standard (VCS) and Climate, Community and Biodiversity Standard (CCBS) certified climate protection projects.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorMaven Media, which runs the publishing businesses of Sports Illustrated and TheStreet, has tapped digital-media veteran Rob Barrett as president of media.Barrett reports to Maven CEO Ross Levinsohn. All of the company’s media brands, including SI and TheStreet, and editorial teams report to Barrett, who will remain based in the New York area.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorSydney’s The Kid LAROI has signed a worldwide deal with Sony Music Publishing. The artist, songwriter, and producer, whose real name is Charlton Kenneth Jeffrey Howard, is currently riding the success of his song “Without You” and 2020 debut mixtape, “Fuck Love.”In his native Australia, The Kid LAROI, who is signed to Columbia Records, is the youngest solo artist to reach No.

Boris Johnson’s “roadmap” out of lockdown.The Prime Minister announced his plan to lift coronavirus restrictions earlier today (February 22), setting out the various stages the country will go through to get “back to normal”.According to Johnson, the government will “aim to remove all legal limits on social contact” by June 21.

London Grammar frontnwoman Hannah Reid has discussed her experiences of music industry misogyny in a new interview with NME.In the new cover feature, ahead of the release of the band’s third album ‘Californian Soil’, Reid discussed being forced into wearing certain clothes on photoshoots and in performances, and how her experiences have been different from her male bandmates.Reid recalled how, in one instance, she was not allowed backstage at one of her own gigs, with her protests leading a

John Travolta has been keeping a low profile on social media over the past few weeks, but delighted fans over the weekend with a new video addressing his followers.MORE: John Travolta's daughter Ella pays heartfelt tribute to famous dad Taking to Instagram, the Grease actor thanked his fans for their incredible support after he discovered that his #DoTheScottsSlide TikTok video had reached an impressive 4.6 billion views.Clearly excited by the news, John said: "Hey there! I just wanted to thank

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorIndependent label, distributor and publisher EMPIRE has opened a division in the US to help grow the local scene in West Asia and North Africa and its diaspora. To head up the territory, EMPIRE has hired Suhel Nafar (pictured above) as Vice President of Strategy & Market Development.

Audio streaming giant Spotify said Tuesday that it would add Mona Sutphen to its board in April. Sutphen is a private equity advisor and a co-founder/advisor for several technology start-ups who served as a senior White House official during the Obama Administration.

reeling in anger at Culture Minister Caroline Dinenage’s response to a debate in Parliament last week where she again rejected the idea of a visa-free “musicians passport” for artists and crew and repeated claims that the EU was at fault, today saw the Minister quizzed by MPs on the government’s handling of the situation and potential routes towards a solution.Before Dinenage faced questioning, the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee heard the testimony of voices from across the worlds