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Pete Tong's Essential New Tune

Gotta Move

Bless You

One Seven Music

out now

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"So I've got to say, I've never heard of them before. Don't know much about them. They're based in Copenhagen. They are a duo. They're called Bless You. Apparently, it's the first single from their forthcoming album. They've already made an album called 'Stay Human'. There have been over 2 million views on 'Gotta Move' teasers, pre-launch, and their club supporters include Keinemusik. And this just blew us away. When I heard this a few weeks ago. I've road-tested it. Clearly, they've been influenced by the likes of Samm & AJNA, which is not a bad thing in my book. So this week's ENT is a total banger."
This week's featured Essential New Tune was featured in last week’s Friday show on BBC Radio 1. Listen again and forward to 33.02 here.

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Label: One Seven Music
Management: Becci Abbott Black, Frame Artists
Radio: James Jackson & James Marsh, Listen Up

25 Mar 2025

Business

Deezer’s 2024 revenues reached $586m, up 12.7% year-on-year, although the total subscriber count reached 9.7m, down nearly 8%. The company also reported an operating loss of $29.7m, down from over $70m in 2023. (DMN)
Warner Music France has launched a dedicated dance label, Adore Music. (RotD)
Spinnin’ Records announces new leadership. (EDMTunes)
Milk & Honey hires Andrew Goldstone as Head of Electronic. (Billboard)

News and Features

£914.9m is the “total cost to musicians since Brexit” according to a new Brexit Music Cost Counter website launched by European Movement UK, an organisation campaigning about the impact of the UK’s decision to leave the European Union. (MusicAlly)
Clubbing TV announced the launch of an international competition, Rave Photography of the Year 2025. (RotD)
New BBC documentary 'Nightclubs: Is The Party Over?' is now available on iPlayer (BBC)
The winners of the 2025 Electronic Dance Music Awards have been revealed. (EDM)

Digital

Data-driven cloud platform Tuned Global is making music data "unveil its treasures" in real time, in a partnership with data management platform Zetaris. (RotD)

Live

Amsterdam Dance Event have revealed a handful of speakers for its ADE Pro conference in 2025, including techno producer Chris Liebing, Black Coffee's manager Cristiana Votta and Skepta & the team behind his house label Más Tiempo. (EDM)
LIV Miami has announced its full Miami Music Week 2025 programme. (DJMag)
Afterlife Festival in Mexico City is being cancelled due to “unforeseen technical and licensing issues with the venue”. (EDMTunes)
Dom Dolla, Martin Garrix, Knock2, Isoxo, RÜFÜS DU SOL and more are confirmed for Chicago's Lollapalooza. (EDM)
Bugged Out! has announced it will head back to Butlin's in Bognor Regis, UK, in 2026. (Mixmag)

Comment, Opinion and Analysis

Spotify: Not so loud and not so clear - operating in the gray zone. (MusicX)
What's the perfect song length? A statistical analysis. (StatSignificant)
Paid streaming subscriptions hit 100m in the US for the first time ever in 2024, according to the RIAA annual recorded music revenue report. Recorded music was retail valued at $17.7bn (trade revenue $11.3bn), a 3.3% increase on 2023. Total physical revenues of $2bn were up 5%. (Variety)
The IFPI's annual Global Music Report showed recorded music revenues grew by 4.8% in 2024 to $29.6bn. It was the tenth consecutive year of growth, although less than the 10.2% increase in 2023. Streaming revenues were 69% of the market, rising 7.3% to $20.4bn. Paid subscriptions grew 9.5%, ad-supported was up just 1.2%. Within physical, vinyl (4.6%), performance rights (5.9%) and sync revenues (6.4%) all grew, while CD (-6.1%) and music video (-15.5%) revenues dropped. In total, physical sales declined by 3.1% to $4.8bn. Downloads and other digital dropped -7.7%.
“What is so exciting is that there is still great potential for further development, through innovation, emerging technologies, and investment in both artists and the evolving parts of the growing global music ecosystem”, says Victoria Oakley, CEO of IFPI. (RotD)

Tech

Native Instruments Traktor Z1 MK2 review: A massive upgrade – but does it go far enough? (MusicTech)
Moog and UJAM have teamed up on a new plug-in called Vox Humana. (DJMag)

Beatport

Ranger Trucco Q&A as he debuts on Three Six Zero Recordings (Beatportal)
Playlist of the Week: Fish56Octagon (Beatportal)
Eight emerging artists on our radar: March 2025 (Beatportal)
GIDEÖN: The return of "Men Adore" (The Original Bitch House Track) (Beatportal)
Opinion: The Underground Always Finds A Way (Beatportal)
Beatport expands presence in Mexico with localized content, pricing and 'Beatport Connect: Mexico City' (Beatportal)
Find the best music fast with Beatport DJ (Beatport)

Clubs

New London club Gallery announces first line-ups starting at the end of the month, including William Djoko, Rossi, Nic Fanciulli and Jaden Thompson. (DJMag)
Ministry Of Sound has confirmed "significant damage" occured after a “serious” break-in at its London nightclub on Wednesday, 19 March. (Mixmag)
Hackney Council has rejected plans for a new late-night venue on the site of former nightclub Cargo over fears it would lead to a "spike in crime." (Mixmag)
Ibiza:
Hï Ibiza announces summer 2025 DJ residency with John Summit's Experts Only label. (EDM)
Glitterbox announces full line-up for Hï Ibiza residency. (DJMag)
Godskitchen XXV serves up divine DJs at Amnesia. (IbizaSpotlight)
Claptone presents The Masquerade moves to Chinois Ibiza. (IbizaSpotlight)
Armin van Buuren announces Ushuaïa Ibiza 2025 residency. (DJMag)

Streams & Podcasts

David Morales 'Needin' U' | The Making Of An Ibiza Anthem (DJMag)
La La house & techno set live from DJ Mag HQ (DJMag)
Sirens | Boiler Room: Shenzhen (Boiler Room)
Mina Galan | Boiler Room x Coach x Clubshy: London (Boiler Room)
Shygirl x Angelita | Boiler Room x Coach x Clubshy: London (Boiler Room)
Barry Can't Swim | Mixmag Lab London 2025 (Mixmag)

Artist and Music Features

DJ Mag’s Miami Music Week guide, powered by DJTickets
A guide to Miami Music Week 2025: Pool Parties, clubs, raves, showcases and more. (EDM)
A guide to the best parties and panels at Miami Music Week (RA)
Why Factory Town Wednesday is the essential start to your Miami Music Week. (Magnetic)
Fast Company's 10 most innovative companies changing the music industry: PgLang, Seeker Music, SoundCloud, Merlin, Red Hot, TuneCore, Alibi Music, Tone, Mechanical Licensing Collective, Music AI.
YouTube is treating content creators like TV producers, and it’s working. It is at No.11 of the overall list.
End of hedonism? Why Britain turned its back on clubbing. (BBC)
Five years on from lockdown, dance music is stuttering on its quest for self-improvement. The mood out there is flat. Renewing our optimism requires a radical shift in thinking. (RA)
Kwame Safo hosts an expansive conversation with Kevin Saunderson, DJ Paulette and Lovie, reflecting on their journeys as Black electronic musicians, navigating the industry, and joining the dots between the past, present and future of dance music. (Mixmag)
How Joe Smooth's 'Promised Land' harnessed the unifying power of music on the dancefloor (DJMag)
How A Guy Called Gerald’s ‘Black Secret Technology’ redefined jungle (DJMag)
Clive From Accounts: “Give me a phone and I’ll happily make you tunes all day” (MusicTech)
Marie Davidson wants you to dance away the algorithm. (Paper)
How Jamaican soundsystem culture changed dance music forever (Mixmag)
EX.757 Ben Klock and Fadi Mohem (RA)
The world’s hottest dance music tracks (Ticketmaster)
The 100 best dance songs of all time (100-81): Staff list (Billboard)

Artist News

Armin van Buuren has described Ultra Miami as “one of [his] favourite festivals” ahead of the 2025 event. (DJMag)
Adam Beyer to release first album, 'Explorer Vol.1', in over 20 years on 13 June. (RA)
Italian techno producer Raffaele Attanasio has been admitted to intensive care to recover following heart surgery. (Mixmag)
Above & Beyond have announced that their fifth studio album, 'Bigger Than All Of Us', is set to be released on 18 July on Anjunabeats. (909originals)
Calvin Harris' pub helps the Dumfries music scene. (BBC)

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