Transmission: Music Business Headlines

Billboard Universal Music Publishing Group Chairman/CEO Jody Gerson on why the music industry has yet to have a #MeToo moment

NPR Music New study shows a grave lack of gender diversity in the music industry

Complex Grammy committee reportedly wouldn’t allow Lorde to perform solo

Consequence of Sound Grammys president Neil Portnow defends lack of female winners: The onus is on them to “step up”

Vulture Grammy president ‘regrets’ saying female musicians need to ‘step up’

Noisey What is The Grammys' beef with Black women?

Salon It’s time to tear down the music festival boys club

CBC London, Ont., will host the 2019 JUNO Awards

Saskatoon Star Phoenix Saskatoon failed to raise enough money for Junos bid

Noisey The dark and lonely world of performance anxiety

CBC If we value what art brings to our cities, we must understand that artists are part of an ecosystem

The Guardian Planning rules to be strengthened in UK to protect music venues

Billboard Where are all the female music producers?

Music Business Worldwide Major victory for songwriters as US streaming royalty rates rise 44%

Digital Music News Indie songwriters feeling left out as the ‘Music Modernization Act’ moves to the Senate

CBC Competition Bureau sues Ticketmaster, Live Nation over allegations of inflated ticket prices

Noisey How nightclubs are taking a stand against sexual harassment

Los Angeles Magazine Girlschool is making space for women in music and beyond

CBC What's robbing Adele, Céline Dion and more singers of their voices

Teen Vogue China bans hip hop culture, tattoos from television

Music Business Worldwide YouTube is paying artists’ promotion budgets… if they promise not to criticize YouTube, says report

PinkNews Demi Lovato will be offering free therapy sessions to fans at her concerts