News Sony/ATV signs songwriter and producer Jason Evigan to worldwide deal He has worked with the likes of Maroon 5, Dua Lipa, Kelly Clarkson and others
News Warner Music inks licensing deal with Audiomack for key African markets Audiomack has more than 16m monthly active users
News As desperate US venues consider Marc Geiger’s 51% takeover plan, their UK counterparts get millions in government aid Legendary jazz club Ronnie Scott's is being paid $1.7m by the UK government
News Repost By SoundCloud partners with legal service Cosynd to offer artists discounted copyright registrations Repost by SoundCloud artists can also use Cosynd’s platform to can create, negotiate, and sign customized copyright agreements
News Spotify explores podcast-only $7.99-per-month subscription prospect in new survey Company also looking into $2.99-per-month and $4.99-per-month tiers
News Beyoncé inks multi-year partnership with luxury fitness brand Peloton Content is accessible via Peloton's app and equipment
News BMG inks label deal with composer Nils Frahm and manager Felix Grimm Newly launched production company, Leiter, is based in Germany's Berlin-Kreuzberg
News Spotify to buy podcast ad platform Megaphone for $235m, bringing its total podcast acquisition spend to over $800m in the past 2 years Megaphone provides hosting and ad-insertion capabilities for podcast publishers
News Kanye West was the biggest songwriter in the US in Q3, with 39 certifications He was followed by Lil Wayne, with 25 certifications
News Veronica Vaccarezza promoted to SVP, Business Development, US Latin at Sony/ATV Exec is responsible for driving growth through digital and strategic initiatives
News Nick Woollard joins Songtradr as SVP Of Global Platform Sales Exec brings over a decade of music licensing experience and will lead Songtradr’s growing subscription business
News Live Nation share price rockets up by over 22% on COVID-19 vaccine news (update) Pfizer vaccine found to be more than 90% effective
Analysis News Refunds, revenues and redundancies: Behind the numbers of Live Nation’s Q3 earnings What we learned from Michael Rapino and co. during firm's quarterly fiscal update last week
News Kate Wyn Jones joins EMI Records as Business Development Director "We are incredibly excited that Kate is to join the EMI family," says EMI boss Rebecca Allen
News Live Nation has already lost out on $7bn of revenue due to COVID-19 – and will slash costs by $900m across course of 2020 "We estimate the lost revenue impact from the global COVID-19 pandemic in the third quarter and first nine months of 2020 to be approximately $3.7 billion and $7.0 billion, respectively."