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College Music Update or Complete Music Update,[1] better known as CMU or the CMU Daily, is a music news service and website aimed at people working in the UK music business or music media. It primarily provides news and information about the music business, music media and music world. It is now best known for its daily email newsletter, the CMU Daily. CMU is owned by UnLimited Media, who also publish the Edinburgh Festival's ThreeWeeks.
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Launch & Aims
CMU was co-founded by Chris Cooke, Alastair Walker and Fraser Thomson in 1998. It says its aim is to provide "a link between the grass roots of the music world (especially the college music scene) and the mainstream music industry and music media"[1]. In that regard CMU's target audience is probably much wider than other music trade magazines like Music Week or Billboard.
CMU was initially a printed magazine mailed for free to people working in the UK music industry, music media and college music community, with a complementary website. In 2002 the magazine was replaced with a daily e-newsletter, the CMU Daily [2].
CMU's news service covers new and established artists and labels from the pop, indie, rock, metal, breaks, house, drum & bass, jazz, hip hop, R&B and classical genres.
CMU Daily
The CMU Daily [3] is a daily newsletter which includes music business and music media news, as well as artist stories, tour dates, album and single reviews, and gossip from the music world. It is available for free to anyone working in music who can read it on the CMU website or opt to receive it by email each day [4]. The CMU Daily is different from most other trade publications in that it also covers a lot of artist news and gossip, and it has more critical editorials and a more irreverent tone than most trade media.
The Beats Bar and CMU Weekly
In 2005 CMU launched a sister website aimed at music consumers, called The Beats Bar, though this has since been merged with the main main CMU website.
The CMU Weekly, a weekly email newsletter launched in 2008, which is also available via the main CMU website in someways replaced The Beats Bar in that it too is aimed at music consumers [5].
Other outputs
CMU also publish a weekly email newsletter called the Remix Update [6] for listeners of The Remix [7], a specialist show on UK alternative radio station Xfm.
A number of other music websites also syndicate stories from the CMU Daily, including R&R World [8], Music Rooms [9], Rivvmix [10] and Audio Scribble [11]. The UK edition of the Epoch Times also includes a column featuring CMU news stories.
The CMU Social
CMU is also the main media partner of Leyline Promotions [12], and co-brands their London club nights, including Remix Night and Twisted Licks.
In 2008 CMU and Leyline launched a new club night called the CMU Social at a London venue called 229. Bands to play at the club during its 2008 programme include City Reverb, Rose Elinor Dougall, Matt Finucane, Tim Ten Yen, Post War Years, Model Horror, The Deer Tracks, Maths Class, Vessels, Infadels, Restlesslist, A.Human, The Penny Black Remedy, Big Strides and Sportsday Megaphone [13].
External links
- CMU website
- CMU Daily archives 2002-2009
- MusicTank guide to music industry resources
- Bemuso guide to music industry news sources
- Mojo editor Phil Alexander's My Media column
- BBC news on CMU report on music retail
References
- ^ "CMU FAQ". CMU. UnLimited. http://www.thecmuwebsite.com/faq/. Retrieved 17 November, 2011.
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