News Record industry attacks YouTube for ‘carpet-bombing propaganda’ over Article 13 Labels respond to latest Lyor Cohen op/ed, which claims artists will be paid less after Article 13
News Universal will ignore artists’ unrecouped balances when it pays out Spotify share money… thanks to Taylor Swift 'They have generously agreed to this, at what they believe will be much better terms than paid out previously by other major labels.'
Analysis News Universal is having a huge year – right on time for sale-hungry Vivendi UMG's current performance suggests that, with a strong Q4, it will turn over somewhere close to $7bn in the full year of 2018
News Glassnote signs global alliance with Kobalt’s AWAL, leaves behind major label system 'It is truly a landmark day in the music industry and for the future of Glassnote.'
Analysis News Liberty Media: We’re ‘absolutely’ interested at looking into buying a stake in Universal Music Group The starting pistols go off on the biggest music rights deal of the year
Analysis One reason why Spotify’s deals with the major labels are balanced on a knife-edge Sony and Universal still own around 6% of Spotify – and won't want to see the company's value crumble
News NetEase Cloud Music completes $600m raise to take on Tencent Baidu, General Atlantic, Boyu Capital and others plough money into Tencent Music rival
Interviews ‘It’s always in your best interest to bank a lot of karma chips in the music industry’ Big Deal founder Kenny MacPherson on success – and the opposite of success
Analysis The future looks bleak for the album – can it be saved? Music industry statistics paint a worrying picture for music's most beloved format
News Spotify share price falls to another all-time low, as market cap drops under $24bn That's down 33% on the company's peak stock price in July
News Was this the biggest mistake in the history of the music business? Rockstar Games is making billions in video games. It's not making them for the music industry.
Interviews ‘Lots of people told me that managing songwriters and producers wasn’t a real business.’ Milk & Honey founder Lucas Keller on his business – and the music industry
News YouTube: We’ve paid the music business $1.8bn in ad money over the past 12 months That's nearly double what YouTube paid out in 2016
Analysis News Profits, payments and podcasts: 5 takeaways from Spotify’s Q3 earnings call Platform confirms it's going to charge artists and labels for tools in the future
News Spotify: We don’t expect major labels to ‘hand us an additional pile of gross margin’ CFO Barry McCarthy speaks frankly on subject of re-negotiations with the labels