News Deezer’s new Middle East deal is not good news for Spotify or Apple Platform will soon be the exclusive streaming partner of its new investor, Rotana
News ‘Urban music’ under fire as senior industry execs voice unease over widely-used term Jon Platt, Sam Taylor, DJ Semtex and more aren't fans of phrase's wider adoption
News Sir Lucian Grainge: ‘We can accelerate artist careers beyond anyone else.’ Universal boss addresses Capitol Music Group's annual conference
Analysis News Apple Music beats Spotify to biggest day-one streaming number for Travis Scott’s Astroworld Following J.Cole and Drake albums, Apple's done it again...
News Universal Music Group is making TV shows in tandem with Lionsgate 'First-look' agreement struck with Mad Men and Orange Is The New Black company
News Universal and Sony are now turning over more than $500k from streaming every hour And they're both generating over $1m an hour from all formats...
Interviews ‘I saw people I really trusted turn into monsters…’ The story of Kiesza, a streaming mega-hit... and what happens when things go wrong with a major label
News Warner Music Group buys youth media brand UPROXX to ‘influence culture’ Max Lousada swoops for Vice Media rival, adding to The Firepit and Songkick
News Fake artists still dominate Spotify ‘chill’ playlists. Now Universal is fighting back… with Apple Music. Nothing has changed on Ambient Chill, Sleep and Music For Concentration
Analysis News Apple Music has over 25m paying subscribers in North America (and more than Spotify) Apple and Spotify now have comfortably over 50m paying subs in the US and Canada between them
Analysis News Three years ago, Pandora had more users than Spotify. Now it’s over 100m behind. Total active users on the US-based platform fell yet again to 71.4m in Q2
News YouTube Music is on a worldwide recruitment blitz for senior executives Over 15 senior music roles are currently advertised by Google-owned company
News Sony Music revenues topped $1.9bn in the first half of 2018, up 11% year-on-year Streaming revenues hit $944m in the six month period, up 39.1% on 2017
News Universal now generating over $50m every week from streaming – overall label revenues jumped 7.4% in H1 2018 Publishing revenues grew 11.1% in the period
News SoundExchange paid out $399m to artists and labels in the first half of 2018, up 17.4% year-on-year Organization distributed over $208m to artists and labels in first half of 2018