News Drake’s More Life tops 250m streams across Apple Music and Spotify in two-and-a-half days Playlist reaches nearly 600m streams over two days
News Tunecore’s Joe Cuello named GM of artist-driven mobile platform EscapeX App provides creators with tools to monetize social media through advertising, subscriptions, and a patented virtual currency
News Ed Sheeran’s Divide has already generated over $5m on Spotify Lead single Shape of You tops half a billion plays in two months
News First Access names Ultra Records exec Oscar Scivier VP of A&R Scivier joins after five years working for Patrick Moxey at Sony’s Ultra Records in New York
Interviews ‘I don’t see a YouTube value gap. Over 45% of our revenue from the platform is from UGC’ YouTube is the devil, right? Not if you speak to Believe boss Denis Ladegaillerie
News Big Machine Label Group names Kris Lamb VP of Promotion Lamb replaces the label's SVP of Promotion Jack Purcell
News AIM appoints Genia Davy Legal and Business Affairs Manager Davy joins from Cooking Vinyl where she was Legal and Business Affairs Manager
News Ed Sheeran tops 1 billion views on YouTube with third album In the last two months, Sheeran's YouTube channel has gained over 3 million subscribers
News RCA Records signs worldwide artist deal with Stargate The duo release their debut single on Friday, March 10th
News Changes at Three Six Zero in US and UK, say sources Mark Gillespie and Dean Wilson are setting up separate ventures
News Songwriters fight Apple, Spotify, Google, Amazon and Pandora over streaming rates Nearly 2,000 songwriters sign NMPA petition
News Sony Music launches Masterworks in Australia The label will be headed up by Sony Music Australia Senior A&R Director Robert Rigby
News Amazon is getting involved in the music festival business The firm plans to have an on-the-ground presence at music festivals in future