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Jordan Peak
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"I've gone from one from a very special guy who has been making some amazing music in the last year. He's not been around for a while, he sort of ducked out of the scene for a bit but he's back and he's making absolute belters. So I thought I would pick this, this is Jordan Peak and it's called 'Front 2 Back' and it pops off." 
This week's featured Essential New Tune was featured in last week’s Friday show on BBC Radio 1. Listen again and forward to 30.33 here.
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11 Mar 2025
Business
  • HMV reported a turnover of £189.5m for the year to 30 May 2024, up from £177.9m in the prior year. (CityAM) HMV has put its UK expansion on hold and is to open a store in Ireland and Belgium instead, because of rising wage costs announced in last autumn’s budget that begin next month. (Guardian) It plans to open up to 10 stores a year in Europe from the end of next year but still hopes to expand in the UK if conditions improved.
  • Superstruct Entertainment generated £178.6m in revenue for the year ending 31 December 2023, up £141.9m on the previous year. 47% of its revenue was generated by its UK operations. It reported an operating loss of £33.26m, compared to an operating profit of £6.67m the previous year, attributed to increased operating costs, and a hike in inflation, coupled with a £31.4m impairment charge. (AAA)  
  • Universal Music Group posted strong results from 2024, with a 6.5% rise in revenue over 2023 and an 8.2% increase in recorded music subscription revenue (despite a 5.1% drop in streaming revenue from last year), contributing to $12.8bn in total revenue. Chief digital officer Michael Nash confirmed UMG is engaged in “conversations with all of our partners about Super Premium tiers”, and also “phase two” of its cost-savings program. (HR) 
News and Features
  • The Online Tomorrowland DJ & Producing Academy is celebrating its first anniversary. (EDMTunes) 
  • The owners of Las Vegas' MSG Sphere are reportedly planning to build a series of 5,000-capacity smaller-scale spheres in new cities. (Mixmag) 
  • The Ibizan municipal government has announced a new partnership agreement with Airbnb, aimed at identifying and eradicating "unregulated" tourist rentals. (Mixmag) 
  • The BPI announced details of the latest (23rd) round of the Music Export Growth Scheme (MEGS), which sees £1.6m funding distributed to support 58 UK artists. (RotD) 
  • Patrick Moxey’s independent music publishing company has filed an amended copyright lawsuit against Sony Music Entertainment and a number of its subsidiaries, including Ultra Records and AWAL. (MBW) 
Brand Partnerships
  • Wynn Nightlife and Hyde Beach announce partnership for Miami Music Week 2025. (EDM) 
Digital
  • New details are emerging about Amazon Music’s “artist-centric” recalibration, which, like its Spotify counterpart, includes minimum-play thresholds before uploads can begin accruing royalties. (DMN) 
  • Hazel Savage, a prominent music-tech entrepreneur and the former CEO and co-founder of Musiio, has joined UK-based electronic music education startup Syntho as its new CEO. (MBW) 
Live
  • Miami residents have voiced their concerns over the upcoming Ultra Music Festival in a town hall meeting attended by the festival organisers and the City of Miami Police. (EDMTunes) 
  • Celtronic festival is set to host its final edition next month. Helena Hauff, Cinthie and more to perform. (DJMag) 
  • LA festival HARD Summer reveals 2025 line-up with live Floating Points set. (RA) 
  • The Prodigy, Charli XCX, Four Tet, Leftfield, and many more announced for Glastonbury Festival. (DJMag) 
Comment, Opinion and Analysis
  • Is old music eating new music? (Chris Dalla Riva) 
  • Protecting your music Pt 1: The legal centre for dance music. (Attack) 
Tech
  • Seiki Kato, the President and Representative Director of Japanese music tech company Korg, has died aged 67, following an illness. (Mixmag) 
Beatport
  • SHOSH: Showing love to 'The Women of 140' (Beatportal)
  • Playlist of the Week: Marie Davidson (Beatportal)
  • Beatport to Livestream Arcadia's Mexico debut (Beatportal)
  • Tripolism score a Beatport #1 with their remix of The Shapeshifter's "Lola's Theme" (Beatportal)
  • Label of the Month: SPE:C (Beatportal)
  • Artist of the Month: TOKiMONSTA (Beatportal)
  • Everything you need to know about Beatport DJ (Beatport)
Clubs
  • Rainbow Disco Club to take over Bali's Potato Head Beach Club next month. (RA) 
  • New multi-floor venue, renae, to open in Manchester. (RA) 
  • Glasgow club EXIT at risk of closure. (RA) 
Deals
  • Create Music Group has acquired the Deadmau5 catalogue and label in deal reportedly worth more than $55m. (DMN) 
Streams & Podcasts
  • RA.979 Lyra Pramuk (RA) 
  • Space 92 in The Lab Amsterdam | ADE 2024 | Mixmag Netherlands x The Social Hub Amsterdam (Mixmag) 
  • Chris Liebing B2B Luke Slater | Boiler Room: Warsaw (Boiler Room) 
  • Notion UKG and Bassline set live From DJ Mag HQ (DJMag) 
  • Armin Van Buuren live from Ushuaïa Ibiza (DJMag) 
Artist and Music Features
  • 12 sound clash classics, chosen by the artists that play them. (DJMag) 
  • From free parties to feeding the vulnerable: how a '90s rave organiser switched sound systems for community kitchens. (DJMag) 
  • Kevin Saunderson and Fabio & Grooverider discuss the origins of techno and jungle, the Second Summer Of Love, and how Detroit and London have influenced each other musically. (Mixmag) 
  • 20 questions with Tokimonsta: ‘I want to feel the warmth of an audience, I want to feel chaos, I just want to feel alive again’ (Billboard) 
  • John Summit has pulled off one of dance music's rarest feats: becoming a hard-ticket juggernaut with a signature sound, big-ass hits and intergenerational appeal. (Billboard) 
  • How Spotify’s algorithm works. (Routenote) 
  • Lyor Cohen talks music videos, AI, and YouTube hitting 125m paid subcribers. (MBW) 
  • Dance music is still losing its pioneers. (FirstFloor) 
Artist News
  • Calvin Harris has teased a new country song 'Smoke The Pain Away', which features him on vocals and guitar. (Mixmag) 
  • Boys Noise to support Nine Inch Nails on their world tour. (EDM) 
  • Diplo’s Run Club expanding to six new cities. (Billboard) 
  • Massive Attack are among a number of artists to transmit their music to the Moon as part of a new immersive art installation. (DJMag) 
  • Chicago ghetto house pioneer DJ Funk has died at the age of 54 following a battle with stage four cancer. (DJMag)
  • Disco producer, DJ, journalist and Midnight Riot cofounder Andy Williams, AKA Yam Who?, has died. (Mixmag) 
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