APRA|AMCOS and RightsFlow – a provider of bulk mechanical licensing and royalty services – announced today an agreement that will allow RightsFlow to identify Australian and New Zealand works based upon their clients master record content. The project will ensure that digital royalties owed to Australian songwriters for transactions in the US will be accounted

You can never be too young to be a fan of Dappled Cities, their new 26 part song teaches the youngest of fans the ABC’s.

Monday June 15 is the last day that listings can be taken with the $77 late fee for the September 1 edition.

For almost 40 years, commercial radio in Australia has been paying very little to broadcast your recordings- they pay performers just $3.8 million in total for a while year. At the same time they pay songwriters/composers between $20 million and $30 million a year.

MUSIC PRODUCTION WITH LOGIC PRO The Essentials of Music Production

Peer Group Networks research arm; PeerIN has released the reports to a study of 3,400 music fans nation wide. The study called “Music Minds” profiles music consumers by purchase behaviour, choice of music media, technology preferences and brand exposure. The report coins an entirely new type of music consumer: Music Mainstreamers, Music Lifestylers, Music Sophisticates

Nominate now for the 15th annual Deadly Awards – the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Music, Sport, Entertainment and Community Awards.

Round 18 for the Contemporary Music Touring Program closes 15 June. It is an initiative by the Department of the Environment,

INMEDIA! have extended their early bird rate of registration for the AustraliAsian Music Business Conference until June 15! They have also added several new speaker/panelists to over 35 of our 50+ at 2009’s best music biz conference.

On 27 May APRA Announced its 2009 APRA Music Award nominees. Across all 8 categories including the coveted, peer-voted APRA SONG OF THE YEAR award, record numbers of nominees.