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Mercuriadis Announces Dave Stewart Signing At CMW

Eurythmics co-founder and Grammy-winning songwriter, recording artist and producer David A. Stewart joins Merck Mercuriadis and Nile Rodgers' Hipgnosis Songs Ltd. and sells them his thousand-plus song catalogue.

Mercuriadis Announces Dave Stewart Signing At CMW

By Nick Krewen

While in town for a Canadian Music Week interview about his ventures, Hipgnosis Songs Fund Ltd., Founder Merck Mercuriadis asked partner and management client Nile Rodgers to join him on stage to announce the company’s latest signing: David A. Stewart.


Artist, writer, and producer Stewart assigns his 100% copyright share of the entire Eurythmics catalogue – which has sold an estimated 100M albums around the world and includes such chart-toppers as Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This), Would I Lie To You, and Here Comes The Rain Again, to Hipgnosis.

With this transaction, Stewart joins the Hipgnosis Advisory Board. 

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Bloc Québécois Wants Streaming Services to Pay to Fund Canadian Content

The Canadian political party will use its Opposition Day today (Oct. 22) to file a motion calling for streaming services to contribute to funding the cultural sector. It is also asking the Liberal government to disburse the $600 million it promised to invest in June, as the debate surrounding the polarizing Online Streaming Act continues.

The Bloc Québécois is getting into the Online Streaming Act debate.

The Quebec political party is demanding immediate funding of the Canadian cultural sector and accountability on behalf of major streaming services.

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