News Amazon Prime has 101 million US subscribers 62% of US Amazon customers are Prime members, says report
News The number of smart speakers in US households grew by 78% in 2018 53 million people - or 21% of the population — now own at least one smart speaker
News Nicole Carbone-Rogers joins ASCAP as Senior Vice President and Head of Events Carbone-Rogers was previously Head of Experiential Marketing & Live Production at Pandora
News A2IM renews contract of CEO Richard James Burgess and hires Andrea Pagnanelli as General Manager Chase Varga has also been hired as A2IM’s new Marketing Manager
News Michele Nadelman joins Warner Bros. Records as CFO Nadelman joins WBR following 12 years at Concord Music
News Offers made for HMV, says administrator The historic British retailer fell into administration in December
News Helaine S. Klasky joins SoundExchange as Chief Communications Officer Klasky was previously the chair of Burson-Marsteller's US public affairs and crisis practice
News Personalization startup Canopy hires Spotify Discover Weekly creator Matt Ogle and NYT journalist Bassey Etim Canopy uses on-device machine learning for content discovery
News Nick Raphael and Jo Charrington to keynote MUSEXPO 2019 Creative Summit MUSEXPO’s Creative Summit takes place March 24–27
News Jeremy Vuernick elevated to Executive Vice President of A&R for Capitol Music Group He will also continue in his current position as Head of A&R for the company’s Astralwerks label
News Pandora partners with SoundHound to launch voice control in mobile app Beta access to new voice-enabled smart assistant is available from today (January 15)
News Spotify could launch in India by the end of the month – report The company 'is rumored to be hosting a launch party' in Mumbai at the end of the month
News Vinyl-on-demand service Qrates inks first major label imprint partnership with Warner Music’s Run Out Groove Qrates will provide the label with manufacturing and D2C solutions
News Dan Cohen moves up to Senior Vice President of Marketing at Nonesuch Records Cohen succeeds the label’s longtime marketing chief, Peter Clancy
News Vevo’s JP Evangelista promoted to Senior Vice President of Content, Programming and Marketing Evangelista has been with the music video platform since inception