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It’s that time of year again. With only 13 days left till the big one, we feel it’s the perfect moment for the obligatory festive blog post. So, without further ado, here are our 10 favourite songs from Christmas movies.

Ah the cover song. Always a risk and rarely as good as the real deal, yet they’re becoming increasingly well used throughout mainstream media.

It’s Halloween and that gives us a great excuse to write about music in scary films (and eat anything containing sugar). Some of the songs are downright creepy in their own right, some were corrupted by the film. Here’s our top 10:

A lot of people we speak to (outside the industry) assume that music sync is limited to TV production and movies. Both you and we know that it isn’t.

Midem 2013 was interesting. Attendance was down and everyone was grumbling it was the quietest yet.

Cost cutting is on trend today in the major and minor record labels and publishing companies – many companies spending less, both on salaries as well as on core company needs

We’ve highlighted this before as we believe that rights owners in all forms should receive their due recompense.

Hot off the press and on the flight back to LA, Tammy reflects on her last visit to SXSW in the early 00’s and how the focus has shifted.

We’re hearing a lot of people saying “Midem is quiet” and that therefore less business is being done. Our take on this is that Midem is actually reasonably busy but that more QUIET business is being done.

As a software company in the music industry we often come across companies grappling with the dilemma of whether to build or buy software to solve a business issue.

Hurricane Sandy was eye opening, scary and terrible for many. We were lucky in that our New York office got off reasonably lightly all things considered. The worst it got for us was that we didn’t make it into the office together for the best part of a week and we worked from home. We […]

We love computers, we love what they can do, but they’re not human.