News Jammber acquires TuneRegistry to expand music rights and royalty administration capabilities TuneRegistry co-founder and CEO Dae Bogan joins Jammber as its Senior Vice President of Global Music Rights
News UMPG names Thomas Vidovic as MD, Germany and SVP, Austria & Switzerland; Diana Muñoz promoted to SVP, Finance and Administration Both promotions are effective immediately
News BMI claims ‘highest royalty distributions of any music rights org’ as it pays out $1.196bn to songwriters and publishers The US-based performance rights organization collected a record $1.283bn
News Spotify takes another step beyond music with hire of ex-CBS News President David Rhodes hired as original news content consultant
News Kobalt appoints Johan Land as Chief Product Officer At Waymo he led the launch of the first commercial self-driving cars service
News UMPG appoints Stephen J. Dallas as SVP, Business & Legal Affairs and Digital Business Development He previously served as Vice President, Digital Legal Affairs & Business Development at Warner Chappell Music
News peermusic UK signs the Prodigy’s Maxim Reality to exclusive global publishing deal 'He’s a living legend, and he’s got many incredible chapters ahead of him.'
News Kobalt promotes Dominique Keegan to Vice President, Creative He was previously Senior Director, Creative
News Confirmed: Alibaba buys stake in NetEase Cloud Music in $700m deal in a separate deal, Alibaba has also acquired NetEase's import e-commerce platform Kaola for approximately $2 billion
News Alibaba to acquire 20% of NetEase Cloud Music, say sources (UPDATE) Major league deal will take on Tencent Music Entertainment, owner of QQ Music, Kuwo and KuGou
News Jin Jin and Ina Rasinger join Parlophone Records A&R team Rasinger joins as A&R Director on January 15 from Sony Music Germany; Jin Jin joins as Senior A&R Manager effective immediately
News Sony Music UK acquires merchandise company, Kontraband Company has handled merchandise for artists including Camila Cabello, Kylie, Iggy Pop, Bring Me The Horizon and others
News Spotify expands pilot of Premium Duo plan into 14 new Latin American countries Plan is available in all Latin American countries that have Spotify except for Brazil
News Music launches on Facebook and Instagram across 15 countries in Latin America Additional countries are Colombia, Chile, Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, Venezuela, Guatemala, Uruguay, Paraguay, Honduras, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Dominican Republic, Panama and Nicaragua
News Alicia Keys signs with Universal Music Publishing Group UMPG to globally administer rights to Alicia Keys’ iconic song catalog