It's not so much that it reflects well on Chris Brown that he has withdrawn his name from consideration for the Kids' Choice awards, as it reflects awfully on Nickelodeon. The kids' TV network has handed the moral high ground to a man who doesn't deserve it which leaves them looking a bit shabby. Ye...

Perhaps unsurprisingly, artists are getting nervous about the PRS-Google dispute. Beth Orton has come out in favour of royalties: "Certain people can’t just make money from gigs, can they?" she told BBC 6music. She added: "You should get money from recording, because record deals are different now...

Apple have just launched a new iPod Shuffle - it's even tinier than the last, and will announce songs in a crisp, clear voice to make up for the lack of a screen. It might be wise to teach it to yell "over here", too, what it with it being so small. Oh, and the hard drive is four times the size of t...

Ross The Boss Friedman has been patiently explaining how the internet is collaborating with journalists to somehow stop him sending his son to college: Okay, so two weeks before my record was to be released on AFM in Germany, it was available online in Russia. By thieves. So anyone who wanted could ...

It's been a few years since there's been much evidence of the Britannia Music Club advertising in British magazines; now, it's American counterpart, the BMG music service, is closing. This is one of those 'buy one full price, get a squillion CDs free' deals that used the offer to lure you in, before...

Much, much more scattering of reaction from around the world to Google's decision to pull music videos off YouTube. First up, Helienne Lindvall called for us to think about the songwriters: [A]s a songwriter myself, I can tell you that most songwriters haven't seen any income from YouTube at all, si...

Hey, you - yes, you. You're hearing all that stuff about how disappointing the sales of the U2 album is, right? Well, it's not true. Or, at least, that's what Paul McGuinness, manager, would have you believe: "The first week, we think it'll be very close to half a million, a little under," Paul McGu...

TMZ just can't believe it: He's only a member of the biggest band like, ever, so how the hell can Paul McCartney walk around Paris and not have a single soul look his way -- let alone approach him for an autograph? Could it be because, perhaps, Parisians are a hell of a lot cooler than TMZ? Although...

Well, thank you, PRS: An unrealistically high demand for royalties on videos shown on YouTube in the UK means that music videos are about to vanish from British PCs: YouTube said today that after the expiry of its former deal, PRS had proposed new payment terms that would be financially prohibitive ...

It's hard to remember why we're meant to even be aware of, much less worried about, the Danity Kane split. Thank god we've got some top-level insight into the whole affair from, erm, the Pussycat Dolls: "We are sisters," PCD's Ashley Roberts said. "And there's moments where no matter who you are, yo...