News AIM, Pitchblack Playback and MQA to host immersive listening event on UK’s National Album Day 2018 AIM, Pitchblack Playback and MQA to host immersive listening event on National Album Day 2018
News Songtrust expands into Atlanta, Los Angeles and Nashville with new hires Alex Gershwin, Breanna Harper and Carli Gonderinger join team
News Columbia Records promotes Mike Navarra to Vice President of Publicity New title arrives after success with One Direction, Little Mix and PRETTYMUCH
News Joel Klaiman named President at Hitco Entertainment Former EVP/GM at Columbia joins L.A. Reid's new venture
News Sony EMI takeover investigation now underway, IMPALA hopes for ‘stiff opposition’ European Commission starts initial assessment
Analysis News Spotify is testing semi-personalized playlists. What might that mean for record labels? Streaming platform's new experiment hints at a very different future for playlisting
News ICM Partners promotes three to the role of agent in concerts department All three will report to Partners and concerts Department Heads Steve Levine, Rob Prinz and Mark Siegel
News New issue of Music Business UK out now – subscribe today! Louis Bloom, Emma Banks, Roy & Sam Eldridge, Tony Wadsworth, Emma Greengrass, Glyn Aikins & Riki Bleau...
Analysis News Spotify’s direct distribution deals: What do artists get paid? MBW runs the numbers on Spotify's new offering to artists
News Universal and Elton John sign global deal covering records, publishing, merch and more Global deal sees Universal companies working across multiple rights for British star
Analysis This is how we should be measuring global streaming subscribers Glenn Peoples on the fast-growing music subscription base - and where it goes next
News Elektra Music Group appoints Melanie Scull, Myra Dehais and Jason Martin to key roles Mike Easterlin and Gregg Nadel's new label group starts taking shape
News US recorded music industry growth slowed in H1 2018 – with a dramatic fall in CD sales Overall market up 10%, but streaming growth down on prior year in monetary terms, CD revenues down 42%
Analysis Blog Spotify’s direct distribution deals are only a threat to those aggregators stuck in the past Ditto Music CEO Lee Parsons on the big news that Spotify is accepting directly-distributed music from artists