Manchester United secured their Women’s Super League top spot with a 5-1 win over Leicester City on Sunday afternoon.
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DEALSFormer BMG UK President Alexi Cory-Smith has formally launched her new business, Bella Figura Music, and confirmed a number of deals that are already in the bag. Backed by private equity fund Freshstream, the firm has acquired a stack of rights over the last year from the likes of Guy Chambers, David Gray and Darrell Brown.
Bella Figura, which also involves another former BMG exec – Neelesh Prabhu – describes itself as “a purpose-built, artist-centric music company, bringing together leading technology and a relentless focus on creative excellence”.Iconoclast – headed up by the former CEO of Irving Azoff‘s Iconic Artists Group, Olivier Chastan – has bought the catalogue of Diplo’s Mad Decent Publishing, which sounds like fun. Chastan’s business is another entity splashing the cash on acquiring artist and music rights, spending monies provided by its investment fund backers.Seeker Music – the music rights firm headed up by songwriter Evan Bogart – has confirmed that it has acquired the catalogue of Christopher Cross, with work already underway to reissue and newly promote that music.
“I’ve been a Christopher Cross fan going back to when I was a kid”, says Bogart. “I’m so proud to have the opportunity to carry his legacy forward and of what we’ve already been able to do with his catalogue, and will continue to do this year to keep introducing music fans to Chris’s incredible songs and timeless songwriting”.Influence Media has announced a deal with pop producer and songwriter – and frequent Harry Styles collaborator – Tyler Johnson.
The music rights investment outfit says it has “invested in a diverse catalogue of titles created by Johnson between 2012 and 2020”. Johnson himself adds: “These songs are very important to
.Manchester United secured their Women’s Super League top spot with a 5-1 win over Leicester City on Sunday afternoon.
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Manori Ravindran Executive Editor of International The Arctic Monkeys and Guns N’ Roses are set to headline this year’s Glastonbury music festival. The iconic British fest, which returns to Somerset’s Worthy Farm from June 21-25, revealed the top acts as part of its poster reveal (pictured below) on Friday morning. Organizers had previously announced their other headliner, Elton John, earlier this year. John’s rare festival act will be the final U.K. show of the singer’s worldwide farewell tour. Arctic Monkeys will hit the Pyramid Stage on Friday night, while Guns N’ Roses will play on Saturday evening.
Lana Del Rey hailed Olivia Rodrigo and SZA during an acceptance speech for the Visionary Award at the 2023 Billboard Women In Music event.The singer paid tribute to her fellow female stars at the ceremony at Los Angeles’ YouTube Theater last night, saying that she was thrilled to be handed the prize from 20-year-old Rodrigo.“I really don’t deserve her giving me this award, this wonderful award. I can’t tell you how much it means that someone [Olivia] who wrote ‘Drivers License’ is standing next to me,” Del Rey said.She also said of SZA, who was this year’s Woman Of The Year recipient: “SZA, from the minute I heard you, I knew I wanted to know you.
Rosalía showed her appreciation for Lana Del Rey at the 2023 Billboard Women in Music. The singer accepted the Inaugural Producer of the Year Award and took a moment to deliver a heartfelt speech about her journey in the music industry, including the many hours she has spent in the studio perfecting her sound and the ways she has fought to make her voice heard.It’s no doubt that Rosalía has reached worldwide success, after recently being honored at the Grammys and Latin Grammys, and she also proved that she is very supportive of the rest of the women in the industry.Rosalía took a moment to send some love to Lana Del Rey, who was there to receive the Visionary Award.
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After joining Guillermo del Toro on the project over 10 years ago, producers Alex Bulkley and Corey Campodonico finally got to see the fruits of their labor when Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio premiered last year. Del Toro’s Netflix adaptation of the Carlo Collodi story takes place in 1930s Italy, during the Fascist reign of Benito Mussolini. In this story, woodcarver Geppetto (David Bradley) loses his son Carlo in an aerial bombing and carves Pinocchio (Gregory Mann) from the tree at his son’s grave. Bulkley and Campodonico’s animation studio, ShadowMachine, was responsible for the stop-motion animation of the film, and the pair were incredibly excited to go on this long journey with del Toro.
Lana Del Rey says she wishes she had “sung the entire second verse” on Taylor Swift‘s ‘Snow On The Beach’.The singer featured on the track from Swift’s record-breaking 2022 album ‘Midnights’, singing a short segment of the song.In a new interview with Billboard, she discussed the process of being asked to be on the track, and how she would have played a bigger part had she known she was the only featured artist set to be on the song.“Well, first of all, I had no idea I was the only feature [on that song],” she revealed. “Had I known, I would have sung the entire second verse like she wanted.
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