News Adele and Mumford & Sons agent Lucy Dickins leaves ITB to join WME Respected exec leaves ITB, which was co-founded by her father Barry, after more than 20 years
News Warner Bros. Records is no longer Warner Bros. Records Warner Records is born – with a brand new logo
News Sony makes major hip-hop move in Germany, inking Selfmade deal and hiring Elvir Omerbegovic Omerbegovic named President of Urban Music, Sony Music Germany
Analysis Record labels are spending more and more on signing (and paying) artists… How the record business's new-age economics are really starting to show
News Universal holds preliminary sale talks with Tencent – but is slow deal progress a danger sign? Bloomberg report says 'some private equity investors balk at the high price and slow pace of the deal'
News Sofar Sounds raises $25m to help ‘scale the artist-fan connection globally’ Raise is being led by Battery Ventures and Union Square Ventures
News ‘Creativity is a muscle. It must be worked out. It must be pushed.’ Geffen boss Neil Jacobson on A&R, talking fast, the death of the album and much more
News Merck Mercuriadis’s Hipgnosis Songs Fund buys Jamie Scott catalog 'Jamie Scott has been the UK’s most consistent hitmaker of the last 10 years.'
News After Spotify’s launch in India, how is its global expansion progressing? An in-depth look at how Spotify performed in Q1 in terms of users and subscribers around the world
News Sony Music to deliver ‘Real Time’ royalty data to artists, and enable monthly cash withdrawals 'Real Time Royalties' and 'Cash Out' set to make life much easier for Sony acts
News NME and Uncut acquired by Singapore’s BandLab Technologies 'We are very excited to welcome NME and Uncut to the BandLab Technologies family.'
Analysis BBC Radio 1 now reaches 17% of the UK population, down from 23% in 2011 Commercial radio and BBC Radio 2's reach has remained consistent in same timeframe
News Sony/ATV promotes David Ventura and Tim Major to co-MD roles in UK Jon Platt ups duo to run UK company
News SoundCloud hires Josh Nicoll as Head of Independent Label Services Former [PIAS] exec will work with Lisa Ellis, SoundClouds Global Head of Music, Artist Relations and Label Services
News Mike Chadwick to retire this summer, leaving behind role at The Orchard Co-Founder of Essential Music & Marketing has had a 42-year career in independent music