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MADRID -- A new national music radio network is to be launched in Spain this September by the loss-making Radio Espana group. The network will be based around Radio Espana's […]

MADRID -- Spanish music conglomerate Gran Via Musical (GVM) has teamed up with Sony Music and musician/producer Emilio Estefan's Miami-based label, Crescent Moon, to create a new joint-venture Latino label. […]

As music policies go, reinterpreting French chanson with a flamenco twist for the Spanish market certainly maps uncharted territory. The brainchild of Norbert Kalfon, the Madrid-based head of French marketing […]

SELLO AUTOR, the nonprofit record label run by Spanish authors' and publishers' society SGAE, has signed a deal through Universal Venezuela to distribute the album Encuentros con la Havana across [...]

President Announces 'Most Sweeping Changes' MADRID--BMG Spain president Jose Maria Camara has announced what he claims are the most sweeping changes at the company since it was formed 15 years [...]

MADRID--Spanish music conglomerate Gran Via Musical (GVM) has created a new Madrid-based Latin record label with Sony Music Entertainment and Emilio Estefan's Miami-based Crescent Moon label. As yet unnamed, the [...]

MADRID -- BMG Spain president and regional director for Spain and Portugal, Jose Maria Camara, has announced what he describes as the most sweeping changes since the label's formation. A […]

EUROTROPICAL, the Canary Islands-based Cuban/Caribbean music imprint of MuXXIc, has signed Cuba's most popular salsero, Paulo FG. The singer, who began his career as Paulito FG, was formerly signed to [...]

Virgin Spain Strikes Deal With Cuba's Egrem MADRID--Previously unreleased albums recorded by leading Cuban artists in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s have become available on the streets of Cuba for [...]

MADRID--Call it rock, pop-rock, Latino rock or rock en espanol. Whatever term you choose, the fact is that Spanish rock has become commercially and critically successful. Languid Latino rock group [...]

SPAIN'S AUTHORS AND PUBLISHERS SOCIETY, SGAE, held the first-ever overseas meeting of its international bureau chiefs (except Japan) and its Caribbean basin members on consecutive days during the May 16-20 [...]

MADRID--Spanish music's biggest rising star, Alejandro Sanz, has taken his first steps toward attracting a mainstream English-speaking audience, recording his first song in English with fellow Warner act the Corrs. [...]

Label And Agent Say It Is Unlikely That The 93-Year-Old Will Perform Again HAVANA--Cuban sonero Compay Segundo, 93, is recovering from emergency hospital treatment for extreme fatigue. As a result, [...]

HAVANA--Frequent visitors to Cuba who check out its formidable--yet often untapped--reserve musical maestros can't believe their ears. Cuban music industry managers are, often for the first time, peppering their speech [...]

CUBAN SONERO COMPAY SEGUNDO, 93, is recovering from emergency treatment for extreme fatigue in Havana Segundo, who found international fame at the age of 89 with the Grammy-winning Ry Cooder-produced [...]

MADRID--Key management changes at heavyweight Spanish independent label MuXXIc are aimed at ensuring it stays on target to rival the majors for market share in domestic repertoire this year. MuXXIc [...]

MADRID -- Spanish news/talk network Cadena COPE has won an important legal case against authors' and publishers' society SGAE over whether music used in advertisements should be liable for rights […]

SURISTAN DISCOS is a new Madrid-based label launched April 26 by the owners of leading Madrid small live venue Suristan. The name means 'lands of the south,' and music from [...]

MADRID -- Universal Music Spain has closed one of its three labels--Universal-- and, as of May 1, is operating just two in the shape of Mercury and Polydor. Mercury's new [...]

UNIVERSAL MUSIC SPAIN has carried out a management restructuring and confirmed the closure of one of its three labels. Effective May 1, the Mercury imprint in Spain is to be [...]

MADRID--When this month's Cubadisco fair brings together Latin America's two music giants--Cuba and Brazil--in a celebration of their musical traditions, it will attract attention from around the world. Record labels [...]

In issue 15, M&M looked at how US nu metal acts have impacted rock radio in Europe. This time we examine the bands behind the music, discover how they have […]

Quality flamenco is enjoying a remarkable revival in Spain, and it is far from confined to purists. A new generation of exquisite artists is emerging who neither feel they must […]

Until now, Spanish rap has suffered from an inability to develop a local sound. Almost all rap and hiphop was a theatrical imitation of the US model--tough, angry and somewhat […]

LEADING SPANISH AND CUBAN ARTISTS have recorded an album to raise money for Cuba's music schools and conservatories, which are suffering chronic shortages of instruments and music paper. Encuentro con [...]

U.S. A Key Contributor To Revenue Received By SGAE Last Year MADRID--The current high standing of Latino music worldwide is reflected in the latest figures from Spain's authors and publishers' [...]

SUMMER STARTS EARLY in Spain, and that means that the summer hit machinery is already in top gear. The six-strong teenage girl group Papa Levante has gone platinum (100,000 sales) [...]

The boom in so-called "Latino Music" is a strange and confusing phenomenon. Most of the more popular acts have more in common with US pop than any truly Latin traditions, […]

NOVA EDICIONES MUSICALES (NEM), the publishing arm of Spanish music conglomerate Gran Via Musical, is to acquire exclusive Spanish subpublishing rights of the catalog of four New York library-music publishers [...]

SPANISH LABELS' BODY and International Federation of the Phonographic Industry affiliate AFYVE has elected EMI Spain president Miguel Angel Gomez as its new president, replacing Universal Music Spain president Jesus [...]

MADRID--An absent Alejandro Sanz and the late Carlos Cano were the main winners of the fifth Premios de la Musica awards ceremony held here March 23, where one-off live music [...]

MADRID--Sales in Spain's music market were flat in 2000, reviving labels' fears of the harm that CD piracy is doing to the industry. The total value of shipments rose 1% [...]

MADRID -- An absent Alejandro Sanz and the late Carlos Cano were the main winners of Spain's fifth Premios de la Musica award ceremony held in Madrid on March 23. […]

How have Europe's leading brick-and-mortar music chains responded to the rise of online music retailing? Billboard correspondents spoke to executives in four key markets about the history of their presence [...]

MADRID -- Spain's music market remained flat in 2000, reviving record company fears about the harm that CD piracy is causing the industry. Revenues were up just 1% on 1999 [...]

SPANISH POLICE seized 2,000 pirated CDs and arrested 15 people March 16 at street stalls in central Madrid in a raid dubbed Operation Mozart, after being alerted by Spanish authors [...]

MADRID--How many artists have sold 1 million albums of new recordings made after the age of 88? Cuba's indefatigable 93-year-old Compay Segundo has, and that is one reason why the [...]

Two curiosities of the Spanish music scene are the non-existence of a teen phenomenon and the lack of a latino boom-linked crossover act that sings in both Spanish and English. […]

CARLOS ITUINO has been promoted from VP to president of Universal Music Spain, effective July 1. He will replace Jesus Lopez, who on that date takes over as chairman of [...]

ZOMBA RECORDS SPAIN has signed its first domestic act, Las Hijas Del Sol, eight months after opening its offices in Madrid. The act, originating from the former Spanish colony of [...]

FOR 15 YEARS, pop/rock band M-Clan hovered near the top of the Spanish music scene's second division. Then last year it made it to the first division with the album [...]

MADRID--Virgin Spain world music imprint Yerbabuena has released its second 15-album collection in the 'Sonora Cubana' series of rare and old recordings selected from the archives of Cuban state record [...]

AS PREVIEWED IN PULSE (Feb. 17), Manic Street Preachers became the first major Western rock group to play in Cuba when they appeared Feb. 18 at Havana's 5,000-capacity Karl Marx [...]

MADRID -- In its latest step towards its stated goal of becoming Spain's largest music company, the Gran Via Musical (GVM) conglomerate has acquired 60% of Horus, the country's biggest […]

ALEJANDRO SANZ, Estopa, and the late Carlos Cano have three nominations each for the fifth Premios de la Musica Awards, to be held March 22 in Madrid. Warner Music Spain [...]

MADRID--In its latest step toward its stated goal of becoming Spain's largest music company, the Gran Via Musical (GVM) conglomerate has acquired 60% of Horus, Spain's biggest independent label. The [...]

MADRID -- SER's Spanish language-only Cadena DIAL has finally reached the Basque Country, some 11 years after being launched in the rest of Spain. Cadena DIAL Euskadi took to the […]

MADRID--Pau Dones, leader/singer in the biggest-selling Spanish group of the past four years, walks across a Barcelona, Spain, square, wind blowing through his very long hair, and sits down in [...]

LONDON---Two Spanish successes joined the retail highfliers of North America and an erstwhile British rock figurehead in the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) million-sellers' club in January. Local [...]

MADRID -- A new 100-station music radio network is to be launched in Spain in September by telecoms giant Telefonica, in what amounts to the first serious challenge to the […]