Interviews ‘We’re here for everybody that fits into electronic music.’ British exec Toby Andrews took over as GM of Capitol Music Group-owned dance label Astralwerks last year and has guided it to the No.1 dance label position in the US...
News Universal Music Group posts $2bn in Q3 2019 revenues UMG streaming revenues were up 19.7% to €837m ($936m) in Q3 2019
News FADER Label signs Charlie Burg and Zachary Knowles and expands team with new hires Carson Oberg, Yasmine Panah and Josh Hymowit join as General Manager, Project Manager and Label Coordinator, respectively
News Superstar Jason Aldean expands BMG partnership with new global deal New album to be released November 22 by BMG label Broken Bow Records
News Rosie Hill and Patrick Cloherty promoted after record year for Sentric Music Group sync team Company’s sync revenue up 41% YoY in 2018
News Virtual reality music company MelodyVR partners with UK telco O2 MelodyVR unveiled as the exclusive music partner of O2’s 5G UK
News Spotify users in Santiago, Chile are responsible for 400m reggaetón streams on the platform each month Listeners in Santiago are responsible for 10% of the world's reggaetón streams
News Nancy Matalon appointed Vice President, A&R at Spirit Music Group Melanie Santa Rosa also promoted to Senior Vice President, Global Administration; Tamar Wax named Senior Director, Film/TV
News AWAL promotes Aaron Bogucki to Vice President, Marketing Bogucki joined AWAL in February 2018 as VP, Digital Marketing
News Music on Facebook & Instagram launched in 7 new European countries New markets are the Netherlands, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Romania and Slovakia
News Primavera Sound inks exclusive mobile ticketing deal with DICE DICE will power tickets for all Primavera Sound events in Europe
News NMPA calls for ‘scrutiny’ of TikTok, says platform has ‘consistently violated US copyright law and the rights of songwriters and music publishers’ 'Many videos uploaded to TikTok incorporate musical works that have not been licensed and for which copyright owners are not being paid.'
News EMPIRE and +1 Records strike global partnership Partnership will kick off immediately with the release this week of Coast Modern’s first single Puppy Llama
News CD Baby expands into India 'India is a huge, vibrant market and presents a great opportunity for CD Baby.'
News Sony 360 Reality Audio experience to launch soon with Amazon Music HD, Deezer, nugs.net and TIDAL 1,000 songs to be available from late fall