BY ALFREDO MARTÍNEZ

As the lights turned off, a crowded applause filled the Paulau Sant Jordi on the hills of Montjuic in Barcelona. The excited arena awaited with great expectations the greeting of what was about to become an unforgettable night. Suddenly, the word “Hello” reverberated in everyone's head, announcing the entrance of the songstress, an echo reminiscent of the first time it made the world of music stop eight months earlier (when her comeback was first proclaimed). There she rose,

If streaming once seemed to be a new battle for the music industry to fight, reminiscent of Internet piracy, things have taken quite a surprising new turn. Youtube and Spotify, to name a few, have been accused of undermining artists' right to fair rates for their work. The former has even been claimed to make profit on the base of stolen content. But major labels are already looking for streaming knowledge amongst job applicants; Universal, Sony and Warner have all partnered

There's a lot to thank for. And a lot of humans who have touched you, given you something or taught you something that comprises the heavy lugage you've been putting together all along the way. Imagine you took all of that away. What would be left of you? Because of that, as corny as these lines might be, I'd like to take a moment to appreciate every experience, every opportunity, every challenge, every hand that reached out to me. As a way of thanking all the helpers in the

Ed Sheeran is facing a lawsuit for his smash hit Thinking Out Loud, allegedly a copy of Marvin Gaye's classic Let's Get It On. But in contemporary music, almost everything seems to have been invented already. If you grew up listening to a certain band, there will probably be an inexorable flavour to your music that some may call plagiarism. Even the most creative may try to emulate the sound that inspired them to do music in the first place. Other times their subconscious may