Analysis English-language music is losing its stranglehold on global pop charts – and YouTube is driving the change When YouTube’s charts say what's popular, you better believe it. And, right now, "what's popular" applies increasingly less to U.S. pop stars.
News Spotify in talks to buy podcasting company Gimlet Media – reports Gimlet creates podcasts such as Startup, Crimetown and The Pitch
News Sony Music streaming revenues topped $2bn in 2018, as total sales hit $3.9bn Sony's overall annual recorded music revenues in 2018 grew by 1.7%
News YouTube promotes Carletta Higginson to Global Head of Music Publishing Exec has spent five years at Google/YouTube
News Spotify didn’t launch in India today after all… and still doesn’t have major label approval to do so Spotify's proposed average ad-funded rate in India will sit at less than $0.0005 per-play
News Universal parent Vivendi buys book publishing company Editis in $1bn deal "This acquisition is a logical step in the building of a large content, media and communications group. It also marks the return of this French publishing powerhouse to a European group with a global reach."
News Why is SiriusXM buying Pandora in a $3.5bn deal – and what’s it going to do with a music streaming platform? The biggest deal of 2019 so far should close by the end of this week
News SoundExchange paid $953m to artists and labels last year – an all-time record Organization now on cusp of surpassing $6bn in lifetime payouts to recorded music members
News Nigeria’s Mavin Records secures multi-million dollar investment from Kupanda Holdings “Our mission is to grow Mavin Global into the music powerhouse of Africa,” says Don Jazzy
Analysis News SoundCloud revenues grew 80% to top $100m in 2017, as losses narrowed 27% Subscription revenues nearly doubled in the year, up to $82m
News Create Music Group now shows daily YouTube, Spotify and Apple Music revenues to its artists Company claims "artists have never seen this before from any distributor"
News Nick Burgess to start as Co-President of Warner’s Parlophone on February 1 Exec joins Mark Mitchell to run historic Warner label in London
News Spotify fake artists return – but who’s faking plays within user accounts? MBW reveals that plays were being falsely attributed to users as far back as March last year
Analysis News These might be the 5 most powerful people in the music business – despite none of them working in the music business Who are the bosses of the music industry's bosses?
Interviews News Article 13: Music industry optimistic that re-drafted text can still crush YouTube ‘Value Gap’ John Phelan, Director General of publishers' global body the ICMP, weighs in on the status of the Copyright Directive