News Interscope Records launches Khalabo Music JV label with Kenya Barris Partnership marks Barris' film and TV company Khalabo Ink Society’s expansion into music
News Sumit Bothra named Managing Director of ATC Management, Europe He represents artists including PJ Harvey, Katie Melua, Fink, Nathan Nicholson, and Tom King
News 340 TuneCore artists have been upstreamed to Believe labels as part of ‘Signed by’ program Artists identified as 'rising stars' are eligible to be upstreamed
News Fortnite’s latest music move is a virtual event with rising British band easy life and London Venue the O2 easy life to become first UK act to perform in Fortnite Creative
News Primary Wave acquires majority stake in music publishing catalog of AWOLNATION’s Aaron Bruno Deal includes the hit Sail, which has over 600 million plays on Spotify alone
News As Vivendi shareholders back UMG spin-out, Sir Lucian Grainge says: ‘We’ve only just begun.’ Grainge was on bullish yet philosophical form in new video for Pershing Square investors
News Ritch Sibthorpe named MD for Northern Europe and Australasia at hi-res music streaming service Qobuz News comes nine months after the company raised $11m to fund its global expansion
News Ericka Coulter joins Warner Records as SVP of A&R Coulter was most recently VP of A&R at Epic Records
News Sony Music buys majority stake in Todd Moscowitz’s Alamo Records for nine-figure sum New York-based Alamo was founded in 2016 and has broken artists including Blackbear, Lil Durk and Rod Wave
News Indian Music Industry launches country’s first International Top 20 Singles Chart based on streaming data Data will be aggregated from Spotify, Apple Music, and Amazon Music
News Ernst Trapp promoted to President, Global E-Commerce and Retail at WEA Trapp will continue to oversee operations at EMP as CEO
News Alejandro Duque named as next President of Warner Music Latin America, succeeding Iñigo Zabala Duque joins Warner Music from Universal Music
News George Michael estate inks exclusive global deal with Sony Music UK’s merch company Kontraband Deal expands on the Estate’s existing partnership with Sony Music UK
News Songtradr raises $50m in series D funding round Company has raised over $100m to date, valuing the firm at over $300m
News Sarah Scott named Managing Partner at LaPolt Law Scott was previously SVP of Business & Legal Affairs at Universal Music Group Canada