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MADRID -- Spain's biggest commercial radio group, SER, has made a number of executive changes at its music networks in a bid to strengthen Los 40 Principales' TV offshoot, and […]

MADRID-Premier Spanish female soprano Montserrat Caballe has signed a unique deal with Spanish authors and publishers' society SGAE to record seven albums of 16th- and 17th-century baroque music of the [...]

FLAMENCO STARS Rancapino, Capullo de Jerez, and Pedro Sanz are the first signings to a new indie flamenco label, based in the Spanish capital of Madrid, that plans to promote [...]

MADRID--Latino markets in the U.S. and Latin America should be bracing themselves for the imminent arrival of Estopamania. It's a phenomenon that gripped Spain in 2000 after brothers David and [...]

MADRID -- Spain's CHR market-leader, SER's Los 40 Principales, has topped the three million daily listeners mark for the first time since 1994 in the third and final EGM survey […]

SPANISH PARAMILITARY CIVIL GUARDS smashed a Madrid-based CD and video-game piracy gang and arrested 29 foreigners in December during what they claim was the biggest anti-piracy operation yet mounted in [...]

EL CANTO DEL LOCO'S pre-Christmas, five-concert Spanish tour with this year's sales sensation Estopa should prove the perfect launch pad for this exciting young pop/rock Madrid group, which already has [...]

London-based publisher Chrysalis Music has made a significant move into the Latin market with the launch of ChrysalisClip Music S.L., a joint venture with leading Spanish independent publisher Ediciones Musicales [...]

MADRID--Autor, the 3-year-old nonprofit record label run by Spanish authors and publishers' body SGAE, has been relaunched with its first-ever worldwide distribution deal. In its new incarnation, Autor will continue [...]

THE REVELATION OF THE YEAR in Spain has been Estopa, whose self-titled debut album on BMG Ariola is a startling revision of the flamenco subgenre that is Catalan rumba. The [...]

CUBAN PRESIDENT FIDEL CASTRO became probably the only world head of state to participate directly in events to mark the 20th anniversary of the murder of John Lennon when he [...]

Like fine wine, 93-year-old Cuban Compay Segundo only seems to improve with age. In the five years since he signed to Spanish label DRO East West, the veteran singer and […]

France's FNAC, Spain's El Carte Ingles Start Web Ventures MADRID--As Spain strives to make up ground with Europe's E-commerce leaders, two new pioneering music-related online retail outlets began operating here [...]

SPANISH AUTHORS AND PUBLISHERS' SOCIETY SGAE has added to its catalog of specialist publications a 271-page book titled 'Diccionario Del Rock Latino' (Latin Rock Dictionary), a joint project between SGAE [...]

'GOMAESPUMA' (Foam Rubber), one of Spain's most popular music/humor morning national network radio shows, is doing much to attract a younger crowd to flamenco, Spain's ancestral music. In July the [...]

Planning For 2nd Strictly Mundial, In Brazil, Is Under Way ZARAGOZA, Spain--The inaugural world music festival Strictly Mundial, held Nov. 15-18 in the northern Spanish city of Zaragoza, proved a [...]

MADRID--Spanish authors and publishers' society SGAE will in the first half of 2001 become the world's first authors' rights management society to adopt a revolutionary anti-piracy watermarking system called MusiCode, [...]

MADRID -- Warner Music act Alejandro Sanz capped a triumphal week on November 13 after receiving awards for Best Spanish Male Artist and Best Spanish Album at Madrid's Premios Amigo […]

Artist Honored At 2 Spanish Ceremonies MADRID--Alejandro Sanz capped a triumphant week Nov. 13 when he walked off with two awards--for Spanish male artist and Spanish album--at Madrid's fourth Premios [...]

MADRID -- Spanish music conglomerate Gran Via Musical (GVM) has acquired a 51% stake in El Diablo, the distribution arm of the country's leading alternative music label, Subterfuge Records. The […]

THERE ARE SEVERAL 'radikal rock' bands in Spain's modern underground scene, but Ska-P, which describes its music as a 'call for the insurrection of the oppressed,' is the first to [...]

MADRID--Spanish music conglomerate Gran Via Musical (GVM) has acquired a 51% stake in El Diablo, the distribution arm of the country's leading alternative music indie label, Subterfuge Records. The new [...]

Internal Growth Continues, As The Country Turns Toward Global Success MADRID--How many Spanish artists have made an impact on the sales charts of other international markets in the past year? [...]

TOZE BRITO, former managing director of BMG Portugal, has been named to the same position at Universal Music Portugal. In his new Lisbon-based role, Brito reports to Jesus Lopez, chairman [...]

MADRID -- In the wake of his million-selling new album, El Alma Al Aire, Alejandro Sanz is set to dominate Spain's two main music award ceremonies. The winners of Premios […]

MADRID--The creators of the early WOMEX world music trade fairs (see Global Music Pulse, page 51) are staging the inaugural version of what they call 'a return to the original [...]

MADRID--Alejandro Sanz looks set to dominate two Spanish music award ceremonies within a week, hot on the heels of the release of his million-selling album 'El Alma Al Aire' (The [...]

At last a fresh and vibrant sound has emerged in Spain's dormant pop/rock scene, with the release on BMG Ariola of the debut album by El Canto Del Loco called […]

MADRID--In the final reckoning, the record-buying public will have the last word in the fight against street sales of illegal CDs. This is why Spain's first pan-music industry campaign against [...]

MADRID--Spanish music conglomerate Gran Via Musical (GVM) is continuing to expand as it approaches its first birthday this November. GVM's latest initiative is the October launch of a flamenco-only label [...]

The Cuban queen has become a household name with her love of touring and a 'halo of good luck.' MADRID--Salsa queen Celia Cruz is as much a household name in [...]

MADRID -- The Spanish music industry is uniting behind a campaign to tackle music piracy in the country. Labels' association and IFPI affiliate AFYVE, authors' and publishers' society SGAE, and […]

MADRID -- Flamenco is being tipped to achieve a higher international profile, thanks to a newly created Spanish label dedicated to the gypsy folk music genre. The label, Palo Nuevo, […]

MADRID -- Spanish artist Alejandro Sanz confirmed his status as Spain's biggest star a week before the worldwide release of' his latest Warner Music Spain album El Alma Al Aire […]

MIAMI-BASED MUXXIC LATINA, the label jointly owned by Spain's Gran Via Musical (GVM) conglomerate and Universal Music Group, has named Angel Pecci as its first managing director. Pecci, now managing [...]

SPANISH SINGER Carlos Cano is in Cuba to record an album called 'Asi Cantan Los Ninos De Cuba' (This Is How Cuban Children Sing), promoted by Spanish nongovernmental organization Proyecto [...]

MADRID--Singer Alejandro Sanz has smashed all Spanish sales records over the past three years, but he topped the lot during four days in late September--the Latino star sold close to [...]

Puerto Rican artists are Jaking off and Finding Success The most striking evidence of Puerto Rico's musical incursion into Spain is not that Ricky Martin broke this European territory before [...]

LA OREJA DE VAN GOGH (Van Gogh's Ear) is the only Spanish pop group to have triumphed commercially in the past two years, and its debut album, 'Due Al Sol' [...]

Spanish Industry Bodies Team Against 'Mafia Situation' MADRID--The Spanish music industry is set to launch a major anti-piracy campaign Oct. 11, but while their counterparts in Belgium are hoping to [...]

MADRID -- AC/CHR station Cadena 100, which is owned by Cadena COPE, has adopted programming changes in a bid to turn the tide following a slump that saw its daily […]

SPANISH LABELS' ASSOCIATION AFYVE, authors' society SGAE, and artists' association AIE are set to announce their first-ever joint moves against Internet piracy says AFYVE president Jesus Lopez, who is also [...]

MADRID -- Fifty-four-year-old Eliades Ochoa--the guitarist singer with the broad-brimmed hat seen walking along the railway tracks in the film Buena Vista Social Club--is set to cement his reputation as […]

SPANIARDS LAST YEAR spent an average of 2,446 pesetas ($13.30) each on CDs and cassettes, compared with 2,006 pesetas ($10.90) on the cinema, according to a report on cultural spending [...]

AFTER THE INTERNATIONAL SUCCESS of Spanish bagpipers Carlos Nunez and Jose Angel Hevia, it might have been safe to assume that that was that. But Virgin Spain imprint Yerbabuena has [...]

MADRID--One of the surprise international hits of the late '90s, the Buena Vista Social Club and its accompanying film of the same name, has brought belated but well-deserved recognition to [...]

MADRID -- Spanish music website MusicaAlaCarta.com is launching what it claims to be Europe's first secure-format, music-by-subscription Internet system. The launch of the site follows distribution deals signed this summer […]

BELGIUM-BASED INDIE LABEL Play It Again Sam will open a marketing and promotion office Sept. 1 in Spain. Gerardo Carton will be label manager, and Loreto Anton has been named [...]

MADRID--Spanish music Web site MusicaAlaCarta.com launches in September what it claims is Europe's first secure-format music-by-subscription access service, which will offer subscribers unlimited access to the company's online catalog for [...]

MADRID -- President of Universal Music Spain (UMS) Jesus L[acute{o}]pez is predicting that the company could have a 25% share of the Spanish music market by the end of this […]