British songwriter, producer and musician Crispin Hunt has announced that after five years as Chair of The Ivors Academy Board he would be stepping down "to make way for a successor." The Academy Board will elect and announce its new Chair "shortly."

"Hunt has steered the Academy, the preeminent body representing the interests of songwriters and composers, through an ambitious period of modernisation, growth and reform," said the organisation in a statement, adding that Hunt will continue to...

British songwriter and performer Elvis Costello has inked a worldwide, exclusive music publishing deal with BMG covering his whole body of work.

Under the agreement, BMG will administer the rights to all of Costello's songs, from his debut album 'My Aim Is True', released in 1977, to his latest album 'The Boy Named If', release in January 2022. The catalogue includes songs featured on over 32 studio albums, of which 12 have charted in the UK Top 10.

Alistair Norbury, BMG President Repe...

Sony Music Entertainment has fully acquired Bob Dylan’s entire back catalogue of recorded music, in a deal estimated to be in the region of $200 million, according to Billboard.

Bob Dylan said, “Columbia Records and [Sony Music Group Chairman & CEO] Rob Stringer have been nothing but good to me for many, many years and a whole lot of records. I’m glad that all my recordings can stay where they belong.”

The deal — which was concluded in July 2021 — includes the rights to the entirety o...