News Symphonic Distribution to host inaugural Music Industry Sessions event in Puerto Rico The series of events is for independent artists, producers, and singer-songwriters
News This UK startup allows fans to earn royalties from an artist’s music London-based Songbook on how its unique crowdfunding model works
News Kobalt signs Puerto Rican rapper Anuel AA to global publishing deal Anuel AA is best known for spearheading the Latin trap movement
News Spirit has new owner, secures $350m recap, David Renzer exits Jon Singer will become Chairman of Spirit Music Group
News Songwriter Corey Hart signs exclusive global publishing admin deal with peermusic The deal is a joint signing between peermusic’s Canadian and American offices
News Cooking Vinyl Publishing signs UK songwriter Matty Benbrook Benbrook has collaborated with a long list of artists including Paolo Nutini, James Morrison and Lana Del Rey
News ‘This is becoming the Fyre Fest of crowdfunding’: Anger grows as PledgeMusic owns up to late payments 'We acknowledge that many artists have and continue to experience payment delays.'
News Royalty Exchange passes $50 million in transactions since 2016 Figure was achieved through 535 separate transactions, says company
News ADA Worldwide promotes David McGilvray to Senior Vice President, Radio Promotion Alisa Applegate, Rick Betemit, and Mary Taggart have also joined the ADA Promotion team
News Rumblefish extends 7digital partnership ‘to help music streaming services to launch and expand’ 7digital has been a Rumblefish client since 2012
News Logic manager Chris Zarou launches Sony Music imprint, Visionary Records Zarou is the founder and CEO of artist management company Visionary Music Group
News SoundCloud’s Chief Product Officer Eric Wahlforss has resigned Wahlforss will take up an advisory role on March 1
News MelodyVR inks content creation and distribution deal with AWAL The deal will see MelodyVR distribute live and pre-recorded VR content created with AWAL artists
News Napster has a new majority owner, as RealNetworks doubles its stake in a deal worth up to $40 million RealNetworks has doubled its previous stake of around 42% to approximately 84%