News Brazil-based publisher Rocking Gorillas joins IMPEL Rocking Gorillas was set up by music industry veteran John Telfer
News Vevo Artists To Watch 2021: Scribz Riley, Finn Askew, Remi Wolf, 24kGoldn MBW has once again partnered with Vevo to showcase the company's carefully curated DSCVR Artists To Watch
News UK’s PRS For Music proposes livestream tariff that charges up to FOUR TIMES the rate for ‘normal’ shows. Artists and their managers are kicking off. British collection society PRS for Music urged to reconsider proposed livestreamed event tariff
News Primary Wave buys majority stake in Stevie Nicks publishing catalog for around $80m Deal includes hits like Landslide, Edge of Seventeen, Stand Back and Dreams
News ‘AI-enabled’ indie label Snafu Records adds ex-UMG Nordics CEO Per Sundin and songwriter/producer Savan Kotecha to list of sharholders Los-Angeles-based label launched with $2.9m in seed funding earlier this year
News Tom Paul promoted to General Manager of Capitol Records UK Executive has worked at the label for nine years, most recently as Marketing Director
News Old Town Road was the most listened to Country song in the US in the past year (according to RIAA certifications) The NMPA Gold & Platinum Program has announced the top country songs and songwriters for the past year
News After seeing her masters sold twice in 18 months, Taylor Swift previews re-recorded version of Love Story in Match.com ad Swift announced the tie up via Twitter yesterday
News Marcus Grant promoted to Senior Vice President, Digital Commerce at Def Jam Recordings Exec has served as Vice President, Digital Commerce since 2016
News Universal launches audio-visual content house Mercury Studios, led by CEO Alice Webb Eagle Rock brand retired; Mercury Studios will produce content across performance/live, factual/reality, scripted, artist and filmmaker partnerships
News Downtown buys catalog of Motown legend Mickey Stevenson, including Martha Reeves hit Dancing In The Street Deal covers Motown songs including Dancing In The Street, Stubborn Kind of Fellow and Devil With the Blue Dress
News Sony Music Masterworks and Wise Music Group ink strategic partnership to find artist and composer talent Companies will work together to sign and develop new talent in the broad-based classical genre
News Mr. Eazi, Bun B, Tobe Nwigwe and more to speak at UnitedMasters’ second SelectCon virtual conference Inaugural event attracted over 1m viewers in July
News Theo Battaglia promoted to Executive Vice President / Head of Creative at 10K Projects Battaglia joined 10K Projects in 2019 as Head of Marketing
News Spotify just invented AI technology that will police songwriter plagiarism Spotify's in-house AI expert, François Pachet, is a co-founder of the new technology, now being reviewed for a European patent