News TikTok was downloaded over 104.7m times worldwide in January Figure represents a 46% increase from January 2019
News Paradigm makes strategic investment in UK sync company Pitch & Sync Deal adds in-house sync capabilities to Paradigm’s Brand Partnerships division
News PPL international collections hit record high of £86.7m in 2019 Total achieved in 2018 was £70.9m
News ‘AI-enabled’ indie label SNAFU Records launches with $2.9m venture capital backing Company was founded by former Universal Music exec Ankit Desai
News Warner sued by producer Mike Flynn, who claims he was promised $500k-per-year job in A&R Exec has worked with Katy Perry, Rod Stewart, Lionel Richie and other artists
News Capitol Christian Music Group Chairman & CEO Peter York to retire after 50 years in the music business 'Peter is one of the most accomplished executives in the music business'
News Kobalt Music signs Savages’ Jehnny Beth to global publishing deal 'There's no question Jehnny Beth is an iconic singer, artist and songwriter'
News Beatchain launches platform that vows to ‘enable artists to take control of their careers’ Platform has already seen more than 40,000 artists sign up
News Taylor Swift signs exclusive global publishing deal with UMPG Universal Music Group already serves as Swift’s exclusive worldwide recorded music partner
News Ingrooves expands into Japan, names industry veteran Ryukatsu Son as Managing Director for market Exec joins from Amazon Japan, where he was Head of Licensing, Digital Music
News Tencent Music antitrust investigation paused in China (report) Investigation was put on hold in January
News Denmark-based tech startup WARM raises €1.25m; adds Sony as an investor Firm uses audio fingerprinting and music recognition technology to detect and identify when songs are played on radio
News HAAWK buys stock music licensing platform Keyframe Audio; launches rights management portal, Identifyy Keyframe Audio has a catalog of 50,000 copyright-free music tracks
News SiriusXM’s annual revenues were up 35% in 2019, but Pandora’s Monthly Active Users fell by nearly 6m Pandora had 63.5m MAUs at the end of 2019