First of all: what's this? Well, it's the Music Week Morning Briefing, a nice and succinct 8am email delivering you the most important music industry news that has broken overnight.

We hope you find it useful. And we hope we're right in thinking that you might not want every pop tidbit from the tabloids, you're not quite ready for an avalanche of opinion, but you might quite like to be brought up to speed with the most important stories  that ...