News PledgeMusic names Bryan Mead SVP, Artist and Label Relations Mead most recently served as INgrooves Music Group’s Senior Vice President, Label Services and Marketing
News INgrooves appoints Ollie Buckwell SVP of Business Development Buckwell will be responsible for generating new business deals and expanding partnerships with labels and artists around the world
News Sony battles online leak of Wizkid/Drake’s One Dance follow-up Hush Up The Silence is the follow-up to global smash One Dance
News Apple Music welcomes another ‘live’ radio station, via CBS Sports CBS Sports Radio is a 24/7 channel that offers a live simulcast of national sports coverage and programming
News Gregg Nadel named President of Elektra Records Nadel joined Atlantic straight out of college in 1997
News Syco’s new leadership team signs 5 After Midnight 5 After Midnight were the highest placed group in the X Factor last year after finishing in third place
News Wixen signs sub-publishing deal with Native Tongue Native Tongue will represent Wixen’s catalogue in its home territories of Australia and New Zealand
Interviews RCA’s Peter Edge and Tom Corson: ‘We don’t keep the lights on here if we don’t develop new artists’ RCA Records leaders Tom Corson and Peter Edge discuss Doug Morris, charts, streaming and radio
News Soundcloud co-founder Eric Wahlforss switches job as firm hires CTO Wahlforss is now Chief Product Officer, leading the strategy around all product initiatives
News Kobalt inks deal with Emeli Sandé’s Hard Copy Publishing Sandé helms the London-based firm alongside artist manager and producer Lamar Jackson as MD
News Deezer’s Chief International Officer exits for newspaper publisher Gerrit Schumann joined Deezer in 2013 as VP of Europe and was promoted in 2015
News Miles Beard and Jeff Vaughn step up to VP of A&R at Atlantic’s APG The duo have worked with artists including Charlie Puth, Kevin Gates and Young Thug
Analysis Is BBC radio playing enough independent music? Just 2% of Radio 1’s 100 most played tracks of 2016 were ‘pure’ independent releases
News Sacem teams with IBM to build ‘transparent’ online royalty system URights will be open-source so other CMO’s worldwide can integrate their catalogues
News The slow death of FM radio begins as Norway starts switching off The switch will roll out across Norway throughout 2017