Music Business News: United Kingdom
News Plastic straws to be banned from events this festival season, kicking-off wider three-year pledge Analysis News Network is now paying PRS £10.98 per minute of music played News Former LADBible Group Marketing and Creative Director joins online music platform in newly created role News Label founded by Craig Balsam and Cliff Chenfeld News Sheeran calls Cawthorne "fantastic" and dedicated his BRIT Award to her earlier this year News Gracey joins after 15 years at First Access Entertainment, most recently as EVP of UK and Europe News Independent label hires Robby Morris from Matador and promotes Hannah Carlen Interviews How Platoon is discovering huge breaking artists - and mystifying the major labels