Recording Academy Launches Songwriters & Composers Wing

Grammys has been revealed, announcing a return to the ceremony’s pre-pandemic schedule. Next year’s Grammys will take place on 31 January 2022, the Recording Academy announced on Wednesday.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorIn an optimistic move toward normalcy, the Recording Academy has announced that the 64 th annual Grammy Awards will take place at the show’s traditional home of the Staples Center on Jan. 31, 2022 — exactly a year after the originally scheduled date of the 2021 awards, which were moved to March 14 due to a spike in coronavirus cases in Southern California.As usual, the show will broadcast live on the CBS television network from 8 – 11:30 p.m.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorThe legendary and reclusive “dreampop” quartet My Bloody Valentine have signed with Domino Records, which has finally released the group’s entire official catalog digitally today (March 31).

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorAfter a few weeks of rumors and a pair of anonymous social-media posts, a group of top-level songwriters calling themselves the Pact went above ground on Tuesday with a letter calling for an end to the one of the longest-running open secrets of the music industry: the practice of artists demanding credit and publishing for songs they did not write.Although the initial signatories did not name names of offending artists, the list includes cowriters of songs by such

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorThree days after an anonymous songwriters group named the Pact called for artists to stop demanding credit for songs they did not write, the group has followed with a letter signed by Emily Warren, Ross Golan, Justin Tranter, Victoria Monet and others pledging that the signatories “will not give publishing or songwriting credit to an artist who did not create or change the lyric or melody or otherwise contribute to the composition without a reasonably

British recording artist and actor ARLO has signed with Sony Music Entertainment's Arista Records. Based in East London, ARLO will release new music this year with Arista Records.

Chinese movie mogul Wang Zhongjun, co-founder of Huayi Brothers Media, has stepped down as chairman of holding company Huayi Tencent Entertainment. Established in 2016, the firm, which is listed on the Hong Kong stock exchange, has been used by Huayi Brothers, Tencent and its other investors as a vehicle to co-finance international films and buy stakes in companies listed outside China.

Leo Barraclough International Features EditorBritish singer, songwriter and actor ARLO has signed with Arista Records, the U.S. label owned by Sony Music Entertainment.London-based ARLO will release new music this year with Arista.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorAs the music-publishing market continues to heat up to unprecedented levels, songwriter groups have begun speaking out. On the heels of a petition launched in the U.K.

Rebecca Davis editorHuayi Brothers Co-Founder and Chairman Wang Zhongjun has resigned from his post as executive chairman of the board at Huayi Tencent Entertainment, the latter company announced Friday.

GOT7’s Jackson Wang has released a heartbreaking video for his new single ‘LMLY’, which stands for ‘Leave Me Loving You’.The video is a sequel to the clip for his 2020 single with Galantis, ‘Pretty Please’, and was scripted by the K-pop idol and co-directed in collaboration with 88rising’s Mamesjao.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorHundreds of members of the international music industry have signed an open letter to record labels titled “Pay Songwriters,” calling for better financial treatment from the record labels that are riding a tide of streaming-powered success.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorLegendary singer Linda Ronstadt has sold her recorded music assets to Irving Azoff’s new venture, Iconic Artists Group.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorThe Neil Lasher Music Fund at Caron Treatment Centers has been created in memory of veteran music industry executive Neil Lasher, who died in April 2020 from complications due to coronavirus.The Fund, initiated by his life partner Jill Jordon, and administered by Caron, will provide financial assistance for access to addiction and recovery treatment, with an emphasis on those involved in the music business.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorWhile it was announced during the Grammy Awards on Sunday, the formation of the Recording Academy’s Songwriters and Composers Wing was not done in secret, and the Songwriters of North America, the Black Music Action Coalition, the Music Artists Coalition and the 100 Percenters responded quickly with an open letter to the new organization calling on it to eliminate the Minimum Delivery and Release Commitment (MDRC) requirement in music-publishing deals.

Beyoncé leads the pack when it comes to Grammy nominations this year, yet Queen Bey will not be among the performers at Sunday’s Grammy Awards.

The Weeknd is demanding that his record label no longer submit any of his music for further Grammy consideration after his After Hours album was completely snubbed by the Recording Academy. With the 63rd annual Grammys only four days away, the singer — real name Abel Tesfaye, told the New York Times on Mar.

ZAYN has called out The Recording Academy in a new post on social media.In a tweet shared this evening (March 9), the former One Direction singer wrote: “Fuck the grammys and everyone associated.”He continued: “Unless you shake hands and send gifts, there’s no nomination considerations. Next year I’ll send you a basket of confectionary.”Fuck the grammys and everyone associated.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorSony Music Publishing has signed Grammy-winning songwriter/ DJ/ producer J. White Did It, known for his collaborations with Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion, among others, to a worldwide deal.