News Festicket secures $4.6m funding from Edge Investments Funding will support Festicket’s entrance into new markets
News CISAC to carry out major upgrade to international musical work identifier system CISAC launches major project to upgrade the international musical work identifier
News UK music retailer HMV bought by Sunrise Records owner Doug Putman The deal will see 100 stores taken over
News West One Music Group expands into Australia with Sydney office Dan Moonie will head up the Australian operation as Senior Music Licensing Consultant
News Mixcloud hires Daniel Petruzzi as VP of Partnerships Petruzzi will drive the London-born company’s US expansion
News PledgeMusic in discussions with ‘several interested parties’ over acquisition or partnership "These conversations, if successful, would lead to a transaction which would allow us to meet all of our outstanding obligations."
News SiriusXM completes $3.5bn acquisition of Pandora SiriusXM says it is now "the world's largest audio entertainment company"
News Elsa Vivero upped to EVP of Global Digital Account Management at Warner Music Group’s WEA Vivero was previously Senior Vice President, Global Digital Account Management at WEA
News Rhapsody makes two senior hires and ‘formally’ launches Powered by Napster service Angel Gambino joins as Chief Commercial Officer and John Law as VP, Head of Product
News UK’s MMF publishes free ‘Fan Data Guide’ for artists and managers Contributors include Red Light Management's Lisa Ward and ie:music's Tom Burris
News David Hazan to head up Midem’s North American business He will be based in the Reed Midem offices in New York
News Cooking Vinyl Publishing signs joint venture deal with Sound Collective Sound Collective currently manages over 15 songwriters and producers
News Kobalt signs deal with estate of rock and blues legend Gregg Allman This is the first change in administration for the catalog in more than 15 years
News SiriusXM hits 34m subscribers, banks huge net profit of $1.2bn in 2018 SiriusXM's 2018 net profit grew 81% last year
News American Airlines to provide exclusive inflight access to Apple Music Apple Music subscribers can listen to playlists with no Wi-Fi purchase required