Tina Turner, Britney Spears and Beyonce topped the sales chart at the London O2 this year, which itself was the top selling venue in the world, shifting an outstanding 1.8 million tickets in 2009.
 

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Coldplay singer Chris Martin and Glastonbury Festival organiser Emily Eavis have joined Oxfam's call for funds to help those affected by the devastating earthquake in Haiti.

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The Festival au Desert wrapped up this weekend without incident in the dunes outside of Timbuktu, putting to rest fears that Islamist extremists might attack the event or try to kidnap some of the hundreds of foreign tourists who attended.

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A New York appellate court has, for the first time, applied the doctrine of primary assumption of the risk to a claim of injury sustained in or in the vicinity of a mosh pit.

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Publishing collecting society PRS For Music has appointed a new CEO, former Sony Electronics executive Robert Ashcroft. Jeremy Fabinyi, who has been the society's acting CEO since Steve Porter left the collection society last year will continue to work at a senior level at PRS. >>more

Investors in Live Nation and Tickemaster have overwhelmingly voted in favour of the merger with Live Nation telling reporters that the owners of over 99% of the company's stock were in favour of the merger with Ticketmaster reporting that 98% of their shareholders were in favour.   >>more

Take That's 'The Circus - Live' was the biggest music DVD of 2009 according to new stats from the Official Charts Company and British Video Association shifting a massive 574,000 copies.

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Who pays for what when you ask your mobile operator to send you back a track - a ringback?

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We previously reported on the so called 'Google Tax' being mooted in France and supported by French President Nicolas Sarkozy. As more detail of the Patrick Zelink led Creation & Internet report come out, it seems that a second big idea is the introduction of collective licensing in the digital domain - an increasingly talked about topic in a number of camps and highlighted at the recent 9th IBC International Copyright Conference in London.

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Ellie Goulding has come out top in this year's BBC Sound of 2010 poll, which asks a team of 165 music journalists, DJs, presenters, producers and bloggers to pick their favourite new artists who'll be making waves over the coming year.
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