News The question all songwriters should be asking Vivendi this week… Canal Plus is refusing to pay authors' rights in France. It's owned by the same company as UMG. Tricky.
Analysis News Universal Music Group streaming revenues soar 45% to top $1bn in H1 2017 Company flies through billion dollar barrier as total group sales exceed $3bn
News Warner acquires rock specialist label Artery Recordings Recordings catalogue sold by CEO Eric Rushing to major group
News BMG revenues top $250m in first half of 2017, up 28% year-on-year Bertelsmann-owned company on course to post more than $500m in sales this year
News Goldman Sachs: Universal is worth $23.5bn – and streaming revenues will jump 500%+ by 2030 New report suggests the good times are really about to roll for the music business
Analysis News Taylor Swift looks unlikely to break Ed Sheeran’s week-one Spotify record Shape Of You clocked up more than 26m streams in its opening four days
News Taylor Swift breaks all-time day one Spotify record with Look What You Made Me Do Comeback single beats milestone set by Ed Sheeran's Shape Of You (one of them, anyway)
News Spotify launches in Thailand with subscription price of less than $4 a month Move means streaming service is now available in 61 markets worldwide
News Irving Azoff: ‘Who do YouTube and Lyor Cohen think they’re bullsh*tting?’ Bad blood runs deep as YouTube and music business accuse each other of lack of transparency
News Beggars Group revenues topped £70m last year, with £11.9m net profit Top-performing albums in the year included Adele, Daughter and Sampha
News Goldman Sachs fund sells $75m Spotify shares ahead of direct listing Demand increasing as anticipation grows ahead of Spotify's floatation attempt
News Lyor Cohen: YouTube pays out more than Spotify for ad-supported streams in the US Exec makes bold claims as he reviews his first eight months at Google's video service
News Live Nation acquired a majority stake in a US management company in Q2 Concerts giant paid somewhere up to $12m in cash as part of the deal
News Fast-growing Downtown hires Daniel Lloyd Jones and Jacque O’Leary in the UK Lloyd Jones leaves Sony/ATV where he signed an array of talent
News SoundCloud is about to sell a majority stake to financiers. Is a new CEO incoming? Ex-Vimeo boss Kerry Trainor tipped to replace Alexander Ljung