News Merlin hires Marta de la Hoz, Chaida Kapfunde and Quentin Martins as it celebrates 10th anniversary Merlin says its members are worth more than a 12% share of the global digital recorded music market
News Kobalt signs global publishing deal with Latin star Prince Royce Artist has over 55m followers on social media platforms
News Atlantic Records and Big Yellow Dog ink partnership for future releases “The more we spoke about it, the more it seemed like a no-brainer to partner up."
News Distributor Ditto poaches Tunecore’s Chris Mooney to run US operation Exec worked for Tunecore for eight years
News YouTube Music begins its ascent: ‘The potential prize here is huge’ YouTube Music arrives in the US, Mexico, Australia, New Zealand and South Korea
News Swedish startup Amuse closes $15.5m funding round Capital will be used to expand operations globally in Europe and the US
News IMPALA raises ‘serious’ concerns over Sony and EMI deal "This is a step too far and I would expect to see an in-depth investigation in the EU and other key jurisdictions"
News Sound Royalties launches funding program for independent labels and distributors "This program significantly advances our support for the master side of the music industry"
News Instrumental supports MBW, backing regular ‘Review’ series 'It's a perfect partnership and we are proud to be supporting the regular features'
Analysis Why Billboard’s new chart changes will please some – but aggravate others The USA's leading chart is about to slash the value of 'free' streams versus their paid counterparts
News YouTube expands ‘Artist On The Rise’ program with Jessie Reyez support YouTube is doubling down on supporting emerging artists
News ole CEO Robert Ott sells stake in company to pension fund Exec will continue as firm's CEO having spent more than $500m on acquisitions
Interviews ‘When superstars land here, we can handle it.’ Alec Boateng and Briony Turner of Atlantic Records UK talk A&R, breaking artists and being part of Max Lousada's Warner
News TIDAL investigates ‘potential data breach’ following fake streams accusation Richard Sanders denies DN report, but opens review to "uncover what occurred"