Poppy Reid

Warning: This article deals with the death of a person close to many TIO readers. If you are in distress, call Lifeline on 13 11 14. Australian producer Anthony Lycenko has passed away, according to…

Less than a month after Psy’s ‘Gangnam Style’ was dethroned as the most-viewed song on YouTube by none other than Wiz Khalifa and Charlie Puth’s ‘See You Again’, the record has yet again been broken,…

Martin Shkreli, the pharmaceutical executive who bought the rights to cheap anti-parasitic drug Daraprim and increased the price more than 5000%, has proven there is a god. According to CNBC, he’s…

Here's all the music industry news you need to know today. Font Maker HypeForType Sues Universal Music Over ‘Pirated’ The Vamps Logo - via TF Paul Rosenberg, Eminem’s longtime manager and business…

Facebook’s music strategy, revealed by way of a handful of interestingly-worded job ads, has been raising a number of red flags of late. Throughout this year Facebook has announced eight new…

Genre bias, changing the Hottest 100 date and content quotas were just some of the pressing issues Chris Scaddan, triple j’s head of music, tackled on stage during a bruising final day session at the…

Chris Scaddan, Head of Music at the ABC, said the government-funded broadcaster is looking to roll out a triple j Unearthed-style platform across multiple genres. Speaking at Music Australia’s…

On May 15, a long-awaited change debuted on the ARIA Albums chart, with qualifying on-demand streams contributing to the Album charts result. Already the case on the Singles chart, the change was…

Jane Huxley, who resigned as Pandora's Managing Director, Australia New Zealand in March, has taken the same role at Spotify. Starting September 1, Huxley will join M Spotify Australia and New…

In February last year, Sia's management team Crush Music launched a new label joint venture with Warner Music Group, Future Crush Music. Now, Sia has made the switch from her global home (excluding…

Spotify, the world’s leading streaming music service, has pushed past 60 million paid subscribers, according to a new report published by Reuters. That’s up from the 50 million paid users milestone…

The days of cranking it up to 11 on Spotify are over. Amidst all the hullaballoo about the music streaming giant creating “fake” artists, turning to AI, closing a content deal with Warner Music, and…