News Lickd partners with EMPIRE to make music available to YouTube creators Deal follows agreements with Warner Music Group, Universal Music Group and BMG
News Universal’s new $1.2bn Mississippi hotel to be completed in 2023, with 12,000-cap venue, holograms and virtual reality entertainment UMUSIC Broadwater will also have a 12,000-cap music venue
News Paradigm Agency awarded $1.2m from the UK’s Culture Recovery Fund Firm was named in first round of recipients of funds from support package
News Vevo partners with Dutch music video platform XITE to launch new Apple TV app New app will be a 'free, ad-supported experience'
News Warner Music’s ADA expands into Japan Local ADA team will be led by respected executive Kaz Aida, who joins from Universal Music
News $100m-backed VR platform Sensorium Galaxy partners with superstar DJ Carl Cox Cox will perform a series of exclusive DJ sets in virtual reality
News Sony Music Masterworks acquires majority stake in artist manager Jonathan Shank’s Terrapin Station Entertainment Masterworks will work in partnership with Shank to curate and spearhead a range of live productions
News Snapchat launches music feature to rival TikTok Company has multi-year deals with a number of major and independent publishers & labels
News Big Hit CEO Bang Si-hyuk now worth comfortably more than $2bn as BTS firm’s IPO takes flight in Korea "We will uphold the stockholder's value in various terms by raising profitability, growth potential and contributions to society."
News US tech giant Cloudflare ordered to block music piracy site in Germany Court in Germany issued injunction on Friday October, 9
News Sony Music and Grammy winning artist Residente launch studios to make ‘films, TV series, documentaries and all kinds of visual content’ Residente will write and direct TV shows/programming, films and other content
News IFPI and WIN’s new data exchange service RDx now ‘fully operational’ More than one million pieces of repertoire data already processed by RDx
News Sony/ATV signs Frank Ski to worldwide deal One of his songs was recently sampled in WAP by Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion
News Nas’ Mass Appeal India signs superstar Indian rapper IKKA Label was launched in August 2019 in partnership with Universal Music India