Hipgnosis needs to hit fast forward towards a sale

A second consecutive cancellation of dividends suggests swift and drastic measures are needed at the music rights business

Baby, one more time: why Madonna, Britney Spears and Taylor Swift are all on a nostalgia trip

With retrospective tours, memoirs and rerecordings, three definitive US pop superstars are reclaiming their legacies. Why now – and is the past a trap?

Hipgnosis investors vote against UK-listed song royalties group continuing

Business that bought rights to Neil Young and Béyonce back catalogues must now restructure or face being wound up

Beyoncé’s ex-manager fights ejection from his music royalties fund

Merck Mercuriadis promised to turn songs into gold on launching Hipgnosis. Now, a review could see him ousted

Bandcamp lays off half its staff after buyout by Songtradr

New job offers only made to 50% of staff of indie music champion, as $300m music licensing company Songtradr looks to cut costs

Dividend shocker shows need for some robust governance at Hipgnosis

Shareholders now almost certain to reject stinker of a deal to sell fifth of music rights catalogue to Blackstone

Beyoncé and Neil Young song fund Hipgnosis slashes amount it expects from royalties

Share price hits record low as London-listed company says it will not pay shareholders a dividend

Swifties flock to Leicester Square as Taylor Swift’s box office smash hits UK

The Eras Tour, filmed over three nights in California stadium, likely to become biggest grossing concert movie in history

Indie companies worry as major labels intervene in vinyl and CD distribution

Independent labels say their acts have missed out on chart positions because of Utopia’s distribution problems and now there are concerns about Sony and Universal backing the company

J-pop agency Johnny & Associates to change name amid sexual abuse scandal

Japanese talent agency to create new firm to manage artists as it tries to distance itself from disgraced founder

We should celebrate Taylor Swift. But her success shouldn’t crowd out others

The arts are the poorer for a system that hugely rewards the few while the less lucky can’t even earn a living wage

‘Costs are out of control’: small UK music venues struggle to stay open

Music Venue Trust says 127 grassroots sites have closed or stopped offering music since last summer

From hate speech to AI music: the YouTube chief trying to leap tech’s biggest hurdles

Alison Lomax, London chief of the video platform, says it is committed to embracing artificial intelligence – but ‘responsibly’

It’s an open secret the music industry is sexist and racist – Jann Wenner just let it slip

The Rolling Stone co-founder apologised for controversial comments about Black and female musicians, but they exposed rock journalism’s previously unspoken biases

Ban ticket resellers from making profit in UK, say musicians’ managers

Industry figures want ministers to follow Ireland and France’s lead and stop touts from making huge mark-ups