News Spotify invites record labels into Spotify For Artists, shutters Spotify Analytics Spotify Analytics users will be brought into Spotify for Artists over the coming months
News Katina Bynum named Executive Vice President of East Coast Labels, Urban at Universal Music Enterprises Bynum was previously Senior Vice President, Marketing at Cash Money/Young Money/Republic Records.
News Germany’s Reeperbahn Festival is… not cancelled, will go ahead in September ‘in compliance with all social distancing and hygiene regulations’ "Naturally, the protection and safety of our visitors, partners, artists and employees is still paramount."
News Downtown expands into Africa; buys indie music publisher Sheer "Africa is a high potential market for digital music services due to its large population, high proportion of youth and the people’s passion for music of all genres."
News West One Music Group expands into Latin America Cristina Bellido to spearhead company's growth strategy
News Allen Grubman hackers: We’ve got ‘dirty laundry’ on President Donald Trump and we want $42m now “Grubman, we will destroy your company down to the ground if we don’t see the money.”
News UK songwriters & composers generated close to $1bn in music royalties last year British collection society PRS for Music reports record results
News Doja Cat producer Yeti Beats joins Warner Chappell Music in global publishing deal He co-produced Doja Cat's Say So remix with Nicki Minaj
News The Hottest Independent Artists In The World: Eve Owen, Sky McCreery, Ruby Waters, Ben Kessler and ELIO Our latest pick of new artists discovered by Instrumental's A&R platform
News Fortnite hits $1bn in mobile revenue in just two years Game has generated over 129m downloads on the App Store and Google Play to date
News Bang goes the ARPU: Spotify now giving away 3 months of Premium for free – around the world Offer available to Individual, Family or Spotify With Kids in all markets except Japan
News Bryan Turner, founder of Priority Records, joins advisory board of blockchain music startup, Beatdapp Firm promises to help labels find missing royalties
News LiveXLive to launch pay-per-view live stream music events ‘to drive new revenue-share model for artists’ Company has streamed over 900 artists and over 200 hours since January 1, 2020
News Music creation marketplace Splice, which has raised over $100m in funding, acquires audio tech firm Superpowered Superpowered Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer Gabor Szanto joins Splice as Head of Audio Engineering
News Downtown buys Christian Tattersfield’s Good Soldier Songs Deal includes more than 350 works, including The 1975’s publishing catalog