News Cooking Vinyl acquires stake in Fat Cat Records Respected British indie buys into respected British indie
News Kobalt buys Fintage House’s music business to create Neighbouring Rights empire Neighbouring Rights generated more than $2bn for the business last year
News This photo says everything about Apple’s ambitions in the music business A billion streams, some smiling execs... and no label in sight
News Universal, Sony and Warner sue Streamripping king Youtube-mp3.org Owner Philip Matesanz faces various counts of copyright infringement
News Vevo seeks new global sales boss as Nic Jones heads back to Australia Popular exec has been at video platform for over five years
News Apple Music hires former Sony exec Scott Seviour to create original content Seviour worked across J Records, RCA and Epic for 13 years
News Kobalt strikes ‘revolutionary’ deal with YouTube giant AwesomenessTV Awesomeness's deal with Universal Music Group officially draws to an end
News YouTube, beware: Facebook is ready to do some global music licensing Job ad reveals all about social media giants plans
News iHeartRadio signs major label deals to launch Spotify rival in Q1 2017 Spotify rival 'All Access' coming alongside new ad-free 'plus' product
News Sony and Warner license ‘the Netflix of everything’ Books, games, music and movies available via iOS and Android app
Analysis News Apple Music helps US recorded music market grow 8.1% in first half of 2016 Average subscription price grows to $9.23
News Warner commits to SoundExchange artist payments as it signs Pandora deal Major joins UMG, Sony and Merlin
News Pandora’s free tier goes (more) interactive, as it launches new $4.99 service Pandora Plus takes over from Pandora One
News Lucian Grainge is now a Director at Lionsgate (and still boss of UMG) Exec becomes the newest director of global movie and TV giant
News Spotify’s Chief Revenue Officer Jeff Levick exits company after 5 years New York-based exec joined streaming company from AOL in 2011