News George Ergatoudis out at Spotify after two years – to join Apple Music British exec jumps to Spotify's arch rival service
Analysis Spotify must tread carefully if it wants to strike direct deals with artists The power of the major labels is not to be taken lightly for Daniel Ek
News Music publishers warn Spanish society they’ll dump it if it keeps up TV ‘scam’ SGAE under fire over 'The Wheel' scam; CISAC under fire for inaction
News A million new tracks are being uploaded to streaming service Napster every 6 weeks Bill Patrizio revealed intriguing stat at Midem last week
News Spotify market cap soars above $30bn in wake of news it’s directly licensing artists Share price jumped to $171.48 at bell on Friday (June 8)
Analysis News Songwriters got screwed by the Spotify equity bonanza. The industry has to ask itself questions. Writers aren't getting any money from Spotify stock sales. Is that okay?
News Sony/ATV: We’ll share Tencent equity profits with our songwriters MBW revealed that publisher is an equity holder yesterday
News Sony/ATV owns a stake in Tencent Music Entertainment Universal-owned EMI Group and Sony-owned EMI Music Publishing also have stakes
News Apple Music to shake up charts – with another new global division New department under Oliver Schusser will 'enable effective, data-driven conversations with labels and artists'
News Apple launches global music publishing division, headed by Elena Segal Oliver Schusser makes major global move a month after taking charge of platform in California
Analysis Why Sony’s EMI buyout won’t make it the world’s biggest music company – but will make it the biggest publisher How Sony and Universal would have stacked up in the 12 months to end of March this year
Analysis News Pandora now has a $14.99-per-month family plan to rival Spotify and Apple Music’s Firm bids to grow subscription base with rival discount bundle
News Sony forecasts slowdown in industry’s global recorded music growth in 2018 Kevin Kelleher presented numbers to investors in Japan this week
News Rob Stringer talks Spotify, YouTube, The Orchard and Sony’s ‘aggressive investment’ in data tools Address in Japan covers a range of areas essential to Sony's business
News Universal is worth more than Spotify, says Vivendi, as Q1 revenues rise 4.5% to $1.5bn Streaming jumps over 30% in Q1 but physical sales suffer 26% decline