News Shawn Holiday promoted to Head of Urban Music at Sony/ATV The new role will run alongside his position as Co-Head of Urban Music at Sony Music’s Columbia Records
News Julian Petty joins Warner Bros. Records as Executive Vice President and Head of Business & Legal Affairs Petty Partner was previously Head of the Entertainment Practice Group at law firm Nixon Peabody LLP
News Spotify inks global content deal with Indian Bollywood specialist T-Series T-Series' 160,000 song-catalog is now available on Spotify
News Warner/Chappell signs songwriter and producer Bernard Butler Butler co-wrote the 1993 UK No.1 debut album by English rock band Suede
News Hip-hop producer Chris Barnett, aka CBMix, inks global deal with Downtown Music Publishing Barnett has worked with Lil Pump, Wiz Khalifa, Chance the Rapper, Juice WRLD, Kanye West and others
News Kobalt’s AWAL enters into year-long partnership with The Other Nashville Society TONS supports Nashville music professionals that fall outside the country music genre
News Concord Music signs Ivor Novello award winner Steve Robson Robson has sold in excess of 137 million records
News Craft Recordings launches Latin music division and expands staff Former Fania GM Bruce McIntosh has been hired as VP, Latin Catalog to run the division
News Vevo promotes Kevin McGurn to President of Sales and Distribution He was previously Chief Sales Officer since 2017
News SiriusXM had 34m paid subscribers at the end of 2018 The company added around 1.3 million net subscribers during the year
News Andy Williams joins Audio Network as Global Commercial Director He was formerly Managing Director of Digital Content Services at ITN Productions
News Au/Ra signs worldwide publishing deal with Warner/Chappell Her collaboration with DJ duo CamelPhat, Panic Room, has been streamed over 40m times
News Rob Stringer: Sony Music is ‘rolling out titles across our vast catalog’ for 360 Reality Audio experience The 360 Reality Audio content is planned to be provided via Deezer, nugs.net, Qobuz and TIDAL
News CD Baby artists earned over $100 million in 2018 Company says that its gross revenues were in the range of $120m last year
News Peermusic buys South Korean music publisher Music Cube – including works by K-Pop superstars BTS The acquisition includes works recorded by K-Pop groups BTS, Red Velvet and AOA