News Kobalt raises $75m in funding round led by Hearst Entertainment Hearst has previously invested in BuzzFeed, Complex and other digital properties
News Warner and YouTube sign new deal… ‘under very difficult circumstances’ Warner CEO Steve Cooper suggests the major had little choice thanks to safe harbor laws
Analysis Why Sony Music’s 2016 numbers are healthier than they first appear Streaming was up over 40% at US$ constant currency - with recorded revenues growing
News Sony recorded music sales fall 6%, hampered by strength of Yen Streaming growth fails to offset unfavorable currency exchange
News Calvin Harris just kind of broke the way Sony reports album sales And The Chainsmokers aren't helping matters, either...
News Warner claims majority share of 2016’s biggest-selling albums Top 50 Beyonce's Lemonade was last year's biggest seller - but Warner took the lion's share of list
Analysis If Vivendi sells a chunk of Universal Music Group… who’d buy it? Could Alibaba, Tencent, Apple, Google or Access Industries buy their way into UMG?
Interviews Jason Flom: ‘Unless you’re 100% sure your artist is wrong, go with their vision’ Jason Flom on A&R, signing Lorde, working with Republic - and getting fired
News Universal has fewer staff than it did 10 years ago – despite buying EMI Company employed 7,547 individuals across the world in 2016
News Universal Music Group valued at $22bn – three times what it was worth in 2013 Vivendi top brass reveals that music company has rejected two takeovers in past five years
News Kobalt hires Alison Donald as Head of Creative, UK Former Columbia Records exec teams with fellow British A&R specialist Sas Metcalfe
Interviews Pascal Nègre: ‘The music business used to be major vs. indie. Now it’s the quick vs. the slow.’ Pascal Negre talks major labels, his new management venture - and his departure from Universal Music Group
Interviews ‘First we’re gonna take London. Then we’re gonna take the world’ Quality Control founders Coach K and Pee talk Migos, Lil Yachty, Stefflon Don - and global domination
Interviews Steve Mac: ‘There are no rules to pop music now. It just has to be of great quality.’ British pop songwriter extraordinaire Steve Mac talks Shape Of You, being No.1 and much more
News Warner/Chappell Production Music boss Randy Wachtler exits company Jon Platt believed to be searching for a successor in Nashville