Fans of the Glastonbury Festival have voted to keep flags at the main stages in an online vote.

Warner Music Group has reported that revenues from its fiscal first quarter to December 09 were up 3% to $918 million, although the company posted a net loss for the quarter of $17million.

The Green Music Group has launched in the US, bringing together a collection of high profile musicians and music industry leaders who are joining with reverb.org to green the music industry and activate fans.

Sir John Dankworh CBE, jazz maestro and husband of Dame Cleo Laine for sixty years, has died aged 82.

The saxophonist, whose career spanned more than half a century, died yesterday in King Edward VII hospital, London.

He had been ill for several months after a tour of the USA with Cleo. Dankworth enjoyed a parallel career as a film and television composer, and wrote the theme tune for television shows The Avengers and Tomorrow's World, as well as scores for films of the 1960s, such as Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, The Servant and Modesty Blaise.

Johnny and Cleo have two children, Alec and Jacqui, who are both jazz musicians. Laine announced his death at a concert at The Stables theatre, in Buckinghamshire, last night which the couple founded in the grounds of their home in Wavendon. 

The concert, marking the venue's 40th anniversary, went ahead as planned and featured performances from Laine, Alec and Jacqui, as well as performers including Paul O'Grady, Prunella Scales, Maureen Lipman, and Victoria Wood.

Universal-owned merchandising giant Bravado has announced new deals with Rihanna, Mariah Carey, Alicia Keys and Whitney Houston.

The UK’s Intellectual Property office is setting up a new panel to develop standard contracts to protect inexperienced artists entering the music industry.

On top of news that the EMI owner Terra Firma was looking for additional funding for the company, EMI have now announced a £1.75billion pre-tax loss in the financial year to the end of March 2009, in part due to a write down of £1 billion as an impairment charge on the value of the company’s catalogue.

After a one-year hiatus in 2009, the fundraising Kokua Festival has announced it is returning for the 2010's festival season.

The State of Utah will not be taking up the issue of ticket scalping during this legislative session, and there are currently no plans to discuss it in the future, according to the representative who sponsored a bill on the matter.

According to documents filed last week with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Irving Azoff, Michael Rapino and other top executives with the newly formed Live Nation Entertainment will be paid millions of dollars in bonuses as a result of the merger between Live Nation and Ticketmaster.