News West One Music Group expands senior management team, launches custom music division in Los Angeles West One Music Group will also be opening a new recording facility in LA
News AEG Europe ups John Langford, Emma Bownes & Paul Reeve to key roles The appointments follow the news that Alex Hill will take over as President of AEG Europe from January 2019
News Merck Mercuriadis Fund buys 100% of Poo Bear catalog for undisclosed sum The catalog includes What Do You Mean?, which has sold over 14m copies
News Vivendi launches bank selection process to find buyer for stake in Universal Music Group Vivendi released its Q3 2018 results today
News UK music tech firm Pirate Studios receives $20m investment from Talis Capital The investment will fund new locations across UK, US and Germany
News Sony completes $2.3bn deal to acquire EMI Music Publishing EMI now becomes a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sony
Interviews News Jonathan Dickins on Adele, working with labels and what makes a great manager September Management founder and CEO Jonathan Dickins was interviewed on stage today in London
News Spotify launches Publishing Analytics platform in Beta The new feature will give music publishers daily streaming statistics for their works
News MelodyVR appoints Iain Funnell as SVP Creative, Content and Editorial Funnell will work in partnership with both artists and record labels to produce VR content
News Transgressive Publishing & Warner/Chappell ink publishing deal with Foals Foals have previously released four Top 10 records and are currently recording their fifth album
News Downtown buys independent UK music publishers Salli Isaak Music and Salli Isaak Songs The companies are home to hit songwriters Jimmy Napes and Paloma Faith
News LADbible teams up with Universal Music On Demand to launch emerging artist video series LADbible has a 62m+ social following
News How do you compete with Shazam and Apple if you’re in the music recognition business? Brands and developers can now license SoundHound's music search technology
News Lyor Cohen warns music industry over ‘unintended consequences’ of Article 13 YouTube’s Global Head of Music slams Article 13 in a monthly newsletter to industry execs
News Spotify is on an original content talent recruitment drive The company is hiring for two senior roles in LA