Coldplay's plans to make touring eco-friendly

CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review key events in music and the music business from the last week, including Coldplay’s plans to employ various technological solutions to reduce the environmental impact of their world tour next year, plus the music publishers' plans to push for the mechanical royalty rate on streaming in the US to be increased again in 2023.  SECTION TIMES 01: Coldplay (00:07:52) 02: Copyright Royalty Board (00:23:48) (Timings may be slightly different due to adverts) STORIES DISCUSSED THIS WEEK • Coldplay announce plans for environmentally friendly world tour • US music publishers to push for new streaming rate of 20% ALSO MENTIONED • That song that almost got to Christmas number number one MORE FROM CMU • Buy MMF and CMU Insights’ Dissecting The Digital Dollar book on Amazon • Sign up to receive the CMU Daily news bulletin