The hidden hitmakers: how indie singers become songwriters inc. Joel Pott

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/jan/29/singers-become-songwriters-hits-one-direction

Clarity from Zoe Keating

http://zoekeating.tumblr.com/post/109312851929/clarity

song authorship controversies, post-Tom Petty/Sam Smith

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/posts/la-et-ms-copyright-controversy-rolling-stones-verve-oasis-george-harrison-20150126-story.html?curator=MusicREDEF

how YouTube lost its soul... more Zoe Keating

http://pando.com/2015/01/26/keep-youtube-weird-how-youtube-lost-its-soul-and-may-lose-the-creators-that-built-it/?curator=MusicREDEF

mystery surrounding (European) singers inc. George Ezra fuels buzz

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/la-et-ms-young-uk-soul-20150125-story.html

YouTube vs Zoe Keating

http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/permalink/2015/01/23/breaking-youtube-says-zoe-keatings-claims-patently-false?curator=MusicREDEF

Google Music Key vs Zoe Keating

http://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2015/01/google-tells-zoe-keating-sign-music-key-deal-or-have-your-youtube-channel-blocked.html

creating an experience before a website - what every artist should do when starting out

http://musicmarketingmoney.com/creating-experience-website/

Why artist managers are taking centre stage

https://medium.com/cuepoint/why-artist-managers-are-taking-center-stage-4c54f93b1e44?curator=MusicREDEF

Universal's audible watermark

http://www.mattmontag.com/music/universals-audible-watermark

the evolution of US Top 40 radio - and Kelly Clarkson

http://www.billboard.com/articles/business/6443691/kelly-clarkson-since-u-been-gone-top-40-adult-top-40?curator=MusicREDEF

Next Big Sound presents 2014: the state of the industry

https://www.nextbigsound.com/industryreport/2014

the best selling singles of 2014 by songwriter

http://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/took-one-person-write-happy-pharrell-williams-took-16-write-timber-pitbull/

GQ spend a day with Pharrell

http://www.gq.com/entertainment/music/201502/pharrell-williams?curator=MusicREDEF

Spotify interview re. growth

http://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/spotify-how-bmw-shazam-and-oaps-can-help-it-become-angry-birds

Noisey on Radio 1 and the BBC in general

http://noisey.vice.com/en_uk/blog/what-we-want-from-the-bbc-in-2015

Five Long Term Music Industry Predictions

https://musicindustryblog.wordpress.com/2015/01/14/five-long-term-music-industry-predictions-and-how-disney-will-rule-the-world/

the generic article about Spotify (to be published weekly)

https://medium.com/@ethank/the-generic-article-about-spotify-9f646a334647

Wil Malone on Bittersweet Symphony and Unfinished Sympathy

http://200-percent.com/wil-malone/

two articles from Music Week's Sam Smith feature

http://www.musicweek.com/news/read/steve-barnett-i-felt-that-we-could-create-a-cultural-moment/060504?adfesuccess=1

http://www.musicweek.com/news/read/capitol-uk-s-nick-raphael-the-sam-smith-project-is-the-collective-effort-of-everyone-with-one-collective-ambition/060503?adfesuccess=1

old Word Magazine article about why all records sounds the same

https://medium.com/cuepoint/why-do-all-records-sound-the-same-830ba863203

managers explain how to win at music in 2015

http://www.thefader.com/2015/01/08/9-managers-explain-how-to-win-music-in-2015?curator=MusicREDEF

Kendrick Lamar in his own words

http://www.xxlmag.com/news/2015/01/writer-war-kendrick-lamar-own-words/?curator=MusicREDEF

The ten biggest holdouts in digital music

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/artists-refuse-stream-music-20150102?curator=MusicREDEF

Bono on transparency in streaming royalties amongst many other things

http://www.u2.com/news/title/little-book-of-a-big-year/

Alexis Petridis interviews Mark Ronson

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/jan/04/mark-ronson-uptown-special-interview

why Ed Sheeran is the perfect poster boy for Thatcherism (article contains inaccuracies)

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2896632/House-proud-Business-savvy-awesomely-hard-working-pop-s-hottest-property-perfect-posterboy-Thatcherism.html

Steve Levine BBC documentary on the making of 10cc's I'm Not In Love

how YouTube MCNs are conquering Hollywood

http://www.mediaredefined.com/a-redef-original-how-youtube-m-878899946.html?curator=MediaREDEF

Rookie Mag interview with Lorde

http://www.rookiemag.com/2014/01/lorde-interview/