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."
News UK-based livestream firm Driift expands into Australia and New Zealand Company has worked with artists such as Laura Marling, Nick Cave, Dermot Kennedy, Biffy Clyro, James Bay, Niall Horan and others
News Andrew Stess joins Tuned Global as Head of Sales and Business Development for the US Former Gracenote and AmpliFIND exec to lead US expansion
News Capitol Music Group’s Steve Barnett to retire, Jeff Vaughn and Michelle Jubelirer to lead company from January 2021 'Under Steve’s leadership, Capitol has been rebuilt into one of music’s greatest homes for artist and employee talent,' says Sir Lucian Grainge
News SOCAN revenues grew 8.2% in 2019 – but payments to songwriters and publishers shrunk by 6% Distributions to members in 2019 totalled CAD $296m, compared with CAD $315m distributed in 2018
News O2 Arena owner AEG slams ‘hopelessly inadequate’ evidence for Madison Square Garden Company’s proposed MSG Sphere venue in London 'AEG requests that the application should be withdrawn,' states company spokesperson
News 3 things to know about Spotify’s controversial new ‘pay for influence’ tool, Discovery Mode MBW sits down with Spotify to ask about its new tool, which some have accused of bearing the hallmarks of payola
News Warner Chappell Music renews deal with Chinese superstar David Tao 'His evergreen songs have been very influential to the development of Asian music,' says Monica Lee, President, Warner Chappell Asia Pacific
News ONErpm partners with Unison for pan-European and pan-African collection Unison launched at the beginning of 2020 and represents the management of more than 600,000 works
News African music service Mdundo now has 6.4m Monthly Active Users, up from 5m in June Company listed on the Danish stock exchange in September