News Bo de Raaff hired as General Manager of CTM’s recorded music division He was previously Head of A&R Benelux at Warner Music
News SESAC inks licensing deal with Radio Music License Committee Agreement applies to stations’ over-the-air broadcasts, simulcast streams and HD signals
News BTS’s Dynamite topped 12.6m streams on Spotify on day one – but 4.9m of them were discounted from its Chart Spotify confirms that Dynamite was streamed 12.6 million times in total
News 5 ‘fake stream’ sites forced to cease manipulation by court injunctions in Germany News follows closure of fake stream site Followerschmiede.de in March
News Songtradr raises $30m in Series C round to fund global expansion Funding round values the company at $165m
News Darren Briggs named Global Head of Technology at Songtrust He will lead the development of Songtrust’s royalty collection and rights management platform
News Spotify inks exclusive deal with Riot Games to be official audio streaming partner for League of Legends Esports events Partnership includes original podcast series, curated playlists and a new LoL Esports Music Hub on Spotify
News 3 things the major labels can learn from Big Hit, home of BTS Lessons from Bang Si-hyuk's comments at Big Hit's Corporate Briefing last week
News JioSaavn’s Artist Originals partners with licensing startup SyncFloor Artist Originals tracks are now searchable and license-ready to creators using SyncFloor
News Steve Clark joins Round Hill Music as Global Chief Operating Officer Clark joins Round Hill from Warner Chappell Music where he spent over two decades
News UMPG and Riot Games partner on esport-themed songwriting camp in China, with songs to be used for 2020 League of Legends World Championship 2019 League of Legends World Championship attracted over 100m viewers
News BTS label Big Hit saw revenues rocket to $249m in the first half of 2020… partly thanks to livestreamed concerts Figures were revealed during the Big Hit Corporate Briefing
News Modern Sky inks sub-publishing deal with The Royalty Network for Chinese catalog in North America Catalog will be overseen and managed by Modern Sky UK
News Kleopatra Sofroniou promoted to General Manager Classics at Deutsche Grammophon Exec has worked with Universal Music Group over the past 15 years
News Lickd partners with Warner to make music available to YouTube creators 'Deals such as this are expanding the horizons of the digital music market.'