News Here’s exactly what Spotify, Apple and other streaming services want to pay songwriters from 2023 onwards. MBW rifles through the filings of Big Tech to see what the likes of Google and Spotify are proposing
News BMG strikes alliance with Germany’s Taubertal-Festival in latest live music move BMG says the alliance forms the "next step" in its expansion into live music and entertainment
News Sony Music Publishing strikes partnership with Punjabi/Hindi content specialist White Hill Music SMP to provide global publishing services, including administration, sync, and catalog promotion
News Daniel Miller to receive Icon Award at the A&R Awards in London next month Artists and industry peers pay tribute ahead of November's big night in London
News Primary Wave buys stake in Luther Vandross publishing and master recording income stream as part of $40m deal (report) Vandross has sold over 40 million records worldwide
News Superstar EDM duo Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike team up with Sony and Tencent’s JV label, Liquid State in China 300+ song strong catalog to be licensed to Liquid State in China
News Splice and SoundCloud join forces to launch artist development program, Nova Nova is open to unsigned Splice and SoundCloud creators
News Another big crypto deal in music, as Opulous inks NFT partnership with Japanese giant LINE LINE owns LINE Music and the LINE messaging app, and generated $1.5 billion in 2020
News Adele’s Easy on Me breaks Spotify record for most global streams in a week The British-born singer’s third UK Number 1 gained 217,300 chart sales in its first week
News Lara Fox joins AEG Global Partnerships as Vice President The AEG Global Partnerships team act as an internal agency for AEG and AEG Presents
News Andrew Woloz promoted to Vice President, Streaming, at Concord Woloz was formerly Senior Director, Streaming, at Concord
News YouTube Music signs up as Icon sponsor at imminent A&R Awards YouTube joins growing list of sponsors backing 2021 A&R Awards
News Karen Kwak named Executive Vice President/Head of A&R at Warner Records Exec to join the company on November 1
News Ingrooves expands into Italy, names Luca Stante as Country Manager for the market Stante was previously CEO and MD of Believe Italy and MD of Tunecore Italy
News Exceleration Music acquires Chicago-based label Bloodshot Records Exceleration was founded by indie sector executives Glen Barros, John Burk, Charles Caldas, Amy Dietz, and Dave Hansen