Thirty years ago, on April 5, 1994, Kurt Cobain, frontman of Nirvana and symbolic artist of a generation that no longer had references or heroes, died
MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3, more commonly known as mp3, is a format that has revolutionized the world of music starting from a research institute and becoming known practically everywhere in the world. Today, the major consumers of music…
Combining economics with music and poetry to understand the mega-trends of the future: this is what the Nord Est Foundation will do on Thursday 21 March in Venice on the initiative of its scientific director Luca Paolazzi in an unprecedented "BellaMente" event
Providing an extraordinary window into the private world of the celebrated model, muse, photographer and icon, The Pattie Boyd Collection will be offered at Christie's online from 8 to 22 March with all 116 lots open for browsing from 26 February
The investigation starts from a Spotify complaint from 2019. The accusation is abuse of dominant position and anti-competitive business practices. The fine would be one of the highest ever imposed by Europe on Big Tech
Nonconformist, the artist spanned two generations. His scathing, free and sincere songs were able to describe the society and politics of Italy in the seventies
The victory of Mango's daughter offers a surprise on the final evening. The fifth Amadeus festival closes with record ratings and takings. The final was watched by more than 14 million spectators
Sanremo 6 begins on Tuesday 2024 February, a highly anticipated event which has turned into a very profitable business for Rai. Let's do the math at the Festival
25 years ago one of the greatest and most influential Italian singer-songwriters of all time left us. De André was a committed and sensitive artist, who was not afraid to tackle uncomfortable topics. Even today his songs...
43 years have passed since the evening of 8 December 1980 since the murder of the former Beatles. A fan of his, Mark David Chapman, shot four bullets behind him. Lennon died at 40 but his musical and spiritual legacy remains alive...
In a letter to employees, Spotify CEO Daniel Ek spoke about the gap between costs and objectives: "We must align ourselves with our future objectives"
Christie's will auction guitars from the personal collection of music legend Mark Knopfler, the celebrated singer-songwriter, guitar hero and frontman of the iconic British band, Dire Straits, on January 31, 2024 in London
On November 22, 1968, one of the masterpieces in the history of music, the Beatles' White Album, was released. An album that conquered everyone and whose success still lasts today. The story of the Liverpool band's ninth album
Now And Then will be released on November 2, the last Beatles song made from a demo recorded in the 70s by John Lennon. George Harrison is there too. Music, technology and history have merged to create a gem
This year too, Unicredit will support Filarmonica in offering activities and projects aimed at bringing the public closer to music and art. Here are the news of the new season
In 2023 Bassins des Lumières of Bordeaux (France) celebrate the incomparable and singular works of Salvador Dalí. In collaboration with the Gala-Salvaor Dalì Foundation, it is open until 7 January 2024
Rockin'1000 is the largest rock band in the world and has over 70.000 members. The proceeds will go to charity to support people and territories affected by the flood
There is no mention of anything other than "Beyinflation", i.e. the consequences that a Beyoncé concert had on Swedish inflation. And Stockholm is now also fearing the Springsteen effect
A life lesson, even before that of politics, that of Maestro Piovani in an interview in La Stampa. Is life still good? "It could be more if we focused on what really matters, leaving out a little superfluous". Music for…
Despite the flood disaster that hit all of Romagna, the American rock star, known as "The boss", will still hold his concert in Ferrara tonight: scandalous!
Thanks to a transitional agreement, music protected by Siae will be restored on Meta's social platforms until 6 October
Tonight is the final of Eurovision 2023, an event followed by 200 million people. Large amounts of money have been spent to organize it, but the related industries are even higher. Here's everything you need to know
The BBVA Fondation (Bilbao-Madrid) awards Thomas Adès the Award Music and Opera to the English musician and conductor
The Authority has decided to adopt precautionary measures "for an alleged abuse of economic dependence by Mark Zuckerberg's group which will now have to restore content on Facebook and Instagram. In the event of no agreement between the parties, he will be appointed…
A new book by Emanuele Pappalardo offers a different way of teaching music in which children, even young ones, are more aware and involved
The brilliant artist, annoyed by the background music, proposed to a restaurant that he himself create a playlist to be broadcast in the club. The success was huge
Japanese musician and composer Ryuichi Sakamoto has died at the age of 71 after a long battle with cancer
No more music on the two popular social networks. For SIAE it is a "unilateral and incomprehensible choice" but willing to negotiate
The theatrical comedy "There are days that never happen" becomes a novel published by goWare. The music of Morricone with Castellitto and Isabella Ferrari on stage. The Author Valerio Cappelli tells the genesis of the work
The exhibition commemorates the 50-year career of the great Bolognese artist. An event for the city and thousands of fans
Marco Mengoni triumphs in Sanremo with Two Lives - Zelensky in the letter read by Amedeus: "Ukraine will win the war, that day I would like the winner of Sanremo in Kiev" - 66% share for the final
The Elegance Cafè Jazz Club, the "black" heart of the culinary and musical scene of Ostiense in Rome organizes a month of concerts and Creole, Cajun, Caribbean and South American cuisine
Banca Ifis is dedicating its Market Watch to the economy of show business and entertainment on the occasion of the Sanremo Festival. The role of music for Italians
All ready for Sanremo 2023. The curtain opens on the 7rd edition of the Festival on Tuesday 73 February. A central event for Rai's budget. From the fees of Amadeus, Ferragni & Co. to advertising sales, here are all the numbers of the event
The Canadian pop singer joins the large group of artists who have given away their catalog. Hipgnosis has in its basket, already full of artists like Leonard Cohen, Shakira and the Red Hot Chili Peppers
Also this year, from July 25th to September 1st, Beyreuth, a small town in Bavaria, is a point of reference for music lovers: singers, musicians, orchestra conductors mingle with the crowd that has come for the Wagnerian Music Festival
The MAXXI museum in Rome dedicates three evenings to three great artists of Italian music: Lucio Dalla, Franco Battiato and Pino Daniele: here are the dates
Ukraine wins Eurovision 2022 and the rain of votes that poured from all over the world on the Kalush Orchestra sends a message of peace and solidarity
The awaited final of Eurovision 2022 has arrived. All ready for Mahmood and Blanco, but the Maneskin are also back on the Eurovision Song Contest stage. Here's everything you need to know
After the final on May 14, let's try to understand the economic potential of Eurovision 2022, the most important music festival in the world
From conductors' fees to advertising revenues, from guest fees to sponsors and tickets, here's everything you need to know about the Sanremo Festival 2022 accounts
The Vienna Philharmonic New Year's Concert 2022 will be held on January 1, 2022 under the direction of Daniel Barenboim in the Golden Hall of the Musikverein in Vienna: here is the story of this extraordinary event that fascinates the whole world…
The Disney+ docuseries is like a time machine that allows us to understand the personalities and work of the Fab Four
This is the highest amount ever paid by a record company for a singer's catalog - Springsteen joins the long list of artists who decide to sell the rights to their songs
An opportunity for the Christmas holidays could be to visit Paris and its exhibitions, among which we point out the immersive exhibition set up at the Atelier des Lumières and dedicated to Salvador Dalì with music by Pink Floyd - open until…
On November 24, 1991, Queen's legendary frontman Freddie Mercury died at Garden Lodge. Thirty years later, his incredible voice continues to enchant the world
On the first day of listing, Universal Music Group scores a sensational rise compared to the IPO price. Capitalization surpasses 45 billion. And according to analysts it can go up again
For the writer Massimo Mantellini the maps, the telephone, the pen, the letter, the camera, the newspapers, the records, the silence and the sky have now become ten splendid dead objects. But all is not really lost
The first model of the famous Gibson Les Paul electric guitar to be auctioned on October 13 at Christie's in New York
Cold and technology can become the winning combination to create eternal archives destined for distant future generations who will be able to understand the arts and cultures of our present time but some important questions arise
The two appointments (Friday 16 and Friday 23 July at 21.00 in the courtyard of Palazzo Leoni Montanari) of Classics under the stars, created by the Ensemble Musagète in collaboration with the educational services of the Galleries, anticipate the season Afternoon between…
Inauguration on July 20 in the Montalcino Fortress with an evening of improvisation. Then we move to the Banfi Castle. For Bollani it is a return after 13 years.
Before listing on the Stock Exchange, expected by September, Vivendi entered into negotiations with Spac Pershing Square Tontine to sell 10% of the record company, a 4 billion operation
Maneskin's victory at Eurovision brings the event back to Italy after more than three decades - Our country will organize it in 2022 - How much does it cost and what is the potential? - The Totocittà has already started
The artist, a true icon of music and theater, died in Milan at the age of 81
A sort of revolution is underway in the music industry, well described in the Ft by the former chief economist of Spotify - One number is enough to give an idea of the change: in 1984, 6 music albums were released in the United Kingdom while…
How much do hosts and guests earn? How much is the advertising revenue? Here are data and estimates on the economic side of the Sanremo Festival 2021 - Tim sole sponsor of the Festival
The intention to list Universal Music in Amsterdam and to distribute an extraordinary dividend equal to 60% of the company's capital sends the shares of the parent company Vivendi and Groupe Bolloré into orbit, which in turn owns 27% of…
TicketOne abused its dominant position, preventing competitors from selling tickets and harming consumers - The company announces an appeal to the Tar
What's behind the deal between Dylan and the Breton financier - In the season of streaming and remakes between cinema and TV, the value of inventories is destined to grow both for the nostalgia effect and for the enlargement of…
Universal Music Publishing Acquires Bob Dylan's Entire Music Catalog for About $300 Million - Vivendì's Subsidiary Calls "Most Significant Deal of This Century"
Born in 1941 in Duluth, Minnesota, whose real name is Robert Zimmermann, he spent his childhood in Hibbing, a mining town about a hundred kilometers from the border with Canada. His father, an appliance dealer, gave the…
The restaurant near Termini Station recreates the atmosphere of the luxury train that has connected Calais to the Côte d'Azur since 1922 with live music and designer menus.
The TIM Foundation makes a total of 400.000 euros available to three important entities to help spread it at a delicate time like the present. Salvatore Rossi, President of the TIM Foundation: "We are proud to be able to announce this important donation precisely…
There are three important institutions for music supported by the Foundation. Salvatore Rossi: "Important donations to encourage participation in cultural life in the country"
Made in Italy "fusion" music in search of an international dimension The lockdown has not slowed down the ambitious project of three young Roman musicians, to merge their "fusion" essence by contaminating jazz harmonies with rhythms from other musical genres in search of…
The legendary photo of the Beatles crossing Abbey Road in London was taken exactly at 11 am 30 years ago by photographer Iain Macmillan to illustrate the album cover of the Liverpool band and immediately became an icon
From 4 September 2020 to 10 January 2021, the rooms of the Galleria Nazionale dell'Umbria in Perugia will welcome the works of Brian Eno (Woodbridge, UK, 1948), an influential visual artist, composer and musician. The personal exhibition, entitled Reflected, created in collaboration with Atlante Servizi…
The Ferrara Buskers Festival® returns from 26 to 30 August 2020 and, now in its 33rd edition, is the spokesperson for the message of hope that perhaps only music and its desire to participate can give. Stefano Bottoni, creator…
For his seventh birthday, the evening "MUSE midsummer" is entitled "Away from Hell!", a message of hope and desire to soon leave behind the health emergency and the difficult situation we are experiencing. The program of…
The great composer died at the age of 91 from the consequences of a fall - He collaborated with the most important Hollywood directors and his partnership with Sergio Leone was inseparable, giving life to unforgettable soundtracks…
On 5 July the event promoted by the Campania Region in memory of the victims of terrorism. The link between the Campania site and the war-destroyed city of Palmyra. The setting, a stupendous valley, is among the most suggestive in Southern Italy. The teacher is among the most…
The contribution that Vivaldi made to the development of bass string instruments is formidable: he enriched the cello repertoire like no other composer of his time, offered the double bass unprecedented roles and new timbral functions, brought the viola from oblivion from…
While waiting for the Coronavirus emergency to end, we present a preview of an event that Palazzo Roverella in Rovigo is proposing for spring 2021. The theme of the relationship between music and the visual arts in the contemporary age has known…
On March 25, Mina turned eighty. With the video dedicated to her first record success, "Il cielo in una stanza" recorded at just twenty years old on a text by Gino Paoli, the Italian Song Portal celebrates a few days from…
The Italian Society of Authors and Publishers has decided to give young people aged 18 to 30 streaming entertainment, with partners such as Infinity, TIMMUSIC and TIMVISION.
The portal of the Italian song adheres to the campaign Culture does not stop, promoted by the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism with the aim of aggregating and increasing the offer of usable cultural heritage…
A few days before the end of the Festival it is possible to take stock of an event that this year has beaten all expectations - Here are all the figures for Sanremo 2020
The 70th edition of the Sanremo Festival is underway - Between cachet, advertising and super guests, let's do the math in the Festival's pocket
According to a substantial report by the World Health Organization, it has been proven that disciplines such as dance, music and painting are effective remedies against pain and some diseases: that's why.
On the occasion of the Liszt Festival, the theatrical-musical piece "My sweetest Clara - Robert Schumann's last night" is performed in the town on the outskirts of Rome on Sunday, a tribute to one of the greatest composers of Romanticism.
On December 8, 1980, the former Beatle was shot dead by his own fan, Mark David Chapman. He was only 40 years old and had already retired from the musical activity, leaving a legacy that is still alive.
On November 30, 1982, "Thriller", a masterpiece by the "King of Pop", Michael Jackson was released in the United States - Is it the best-selling album ever? Not everyone agrees
Palazzo Morando - Costume Moda Immagine di Milano (via Sant'Andrea 6) from 6 November 2919 to 9 February 2020 hosts the exhibition Milano Anni 60 which traces a decade of history of a capital city that became the world capital of…
In Milan the fourth edition of the rhetoric and rap competition between the students of the State University and the prisoners of San Vittore: lessons on 24 October, 8, 13 and 21 November, final on 23 November in the "ring" of the Milanese prison.
Finnish folk orchestra of 40 players with violins, kanteles, accordions, harmoniums, guitars, percussion, woodwinds and vocals, a huge folk Big Band!
Having inherited a multi-century tradition, at the dawn of 18th-century Venetian civilization, the city dazzled with visual and decorative arts, music and opera alike. The exhibition in Paris is open from 26 September 2019…
On September 26, 1969, the Beatles released Abbey Road, the album that is considered the artistic testament of the famous band
A band made up of musicians from small islands scattered across the oceans with the mission of communicating to the world how climate change is damaging their lands: Yoyo Tuki was one of the first members of Small Island Big…
A band made up of musicians from small islands scattered across the oceans with the mission of communicating to the world how climate change is damaging their lands: this is the Small Island Big Song project.
A band composed by musicians coming from small islands across the Oceans to tell the World how Climate Change is affecting their homelands: Yoyo Tuki is one of them, band member of Small Island Big Song.
For a week the border between Dream and Reality is explored at the Borderland Event, near Copenhagen.
Folk and World-Music Festival in an ancestral place in Northern Sweden.
Being at one of his concerts is like witnessing an eruption of creativity and passion that radiates from the stage towards the audience: this flaming cascade of curls is Marat!
ANNIVERSARIES - On August 17, 1982, the first commercially made music CD in history was sold: it contained the Swedish band's latest album and was produced in Germany by Philips.
Preliminary negotiations begin which could lead the Chinese giant to buy up to 20% of the world's number one in music in two stages. A 6 billion deal
Come up here and have the experience of another lifetime. This is the slogan of Vinje Rock 2019 held in Eidsbugarden in Norway from 17 to 19 July last.
From 4th to 7th July in the bucolic town of Rudolstadt in Germany, a huge Festival of Folk Music (and not only) from all over the world took place.
The legendary instrument of Pink Floyd's guitarist was sold at Christie's for almost 4 million dollars: breaking Eric Clapton's 2004 record.
The slogan of the festival: "Heaven on earth doesn't have to be in the tropics" and the organizers are absolutely right! This year's edition will take place from 11 to 14 July.
