CHROMA, Himalayas and I See Rivers are among the 12 artists chosen by BBC Cymru Wales and Arts Council of Wales for their Horizons talent development programme.

The legendary songwriter joins song data hub Auddly and calls on the music industry to manage its metadata more efficiently.

Artist tours can’t be like a ‘two-week-long party’ where bandmates get up to movie-style antics, The Xcerts bassist Jordan Smith tells The Great Escape.

Music is enjoying a ‘new dawn’ which can help the industry ‘correct all the flaws of the past model’, multi-million-selling songwriter and producer Crispin Hunt has said.