News Spotify officially launches a music-only subscription tier… in the UK The new tier appears to be available in the UK only at present and costs £10.99 per month
News Live Nation slams AEG boss’s ‘self-serving arguments’ over DoJ investigation In a memo obtained by MBW, AEG Presents Chairman and CEO Jay Marciano referred to Live Nation and its ticketing division Ticketmaster as a 'monopoly'
News Chris Taylor resigns as CEO of MNRK Music Group; Sean Stevenson to lead company Stevenson to lead the company as of July 1, 2024
News Federica Tremolada promoted to General Manager for Europe at Spotify, as Michael Krause exits after 7 years Krause joined Spotify in October 2017
News Universal Music Group forms UMG Global Impact Team led by Susan Mazo New team will 'enact and amplify the company’s vision for positive change through community engagement, environmental sustainability, events and special projects'.
News Spotify hikes prices for Premium subscribers in the US… again Spotify is upping the price of its Premium subscription in the United States to $11.99
News HYBE can’t remove NewJeans label CEO Min Hee-jin… for now The latest developments in the power struggle between Ador's CEO and HYBE
Interviews ‘We don’t look at metrics. We just look at talent.’ PULSE Music Group's Josh Abraham and Scott Cutler talk artist development and Tommy Richman's viral hit MILLION DOLLAR BABY
News Sony Music in talks to acquire Queen catalog in potential $1bn deal (report) Potential deal would become one of the biggest single-artist music catalog sales in history
Analysis News Three quarters of all royalties generated by UK artists on Spotify in 2023 came from listeners outside of the UK Spotify has recently broken out streaming royalty data for a bunch of individual markets in Europe
News Matt Serletic joins Amazon Music as Director of AI Innovation and Interactive Experiences ‘to reimagine how people connect with music in the age of AI’ Serletic headed up Virgin Records in the US between 2002 and 2005
News HYBE sells $50m stake in SM Entertainment Regulatory filing indicates that the company has sold 755,522 shares of SM Entertainment
Analysis News PRS for Music paid out a record $1.2bn to songwriters, composers and music publishers last year Total royalty distributions increased by 12.8% YoY
News Andrew Howell promoted to Vice President of Sync at Warner Chappell Music UK Howell joined the WCM UK team in 2016
News AI-powered B2B audio company Music.AI strikes AI training partnership with cloud computing platform Vultr Music.AI says that its tools are used by more than 45m users worldwide