News New York investor takes ‘major position’ in PledgeMusic D2C e-commerce site gets more backing from Magna Entertainment
Analysis Blockbuster artists increased their share of streaming cash in 2015 Justin Bieber, Drake and The Weeknd did very nicely on Spotify
News Canada is now giving the music biz $30m a year. Will the UK follow suit? British Columbia joins Ontario, giving rights-holders and venues $15m
News Grimes signs to Sony/ATV’s new JV, leaving behind Kobalt deal Jack Antonoff company Rough Customer welcomes first client
News This company thinks it can turn music pirates into paying customers Retune looks to 'generate large-scale click-through' for rights-holders
News Taylor Swift’s 1989 led Universal’s 10 biggest money-makers last year UMG now judges its biggest records on revenue, not unit sales
News Streaming killing the music business? UMG just posted its biggest revenues in a decade Streaming, publishing and exchange rate play a key role
Analysis No-one is indispensable at Lucian Grainge’s leaner, meaner Universal What does Pascal Nègre's departure tell us about UMG in 2016?
Analysis News Universal is music’s first billion dollar streaming record company Streaming income up more than €300m, total UMG income up more than €500m
Analysis Sony and Universal neck-and-neck in race to rely on streaming Both companies drawing 24% of income from streaming
News Pascal Nègre leaves Universal Music France in shock exit Veteran exec, who first joined Polygram in 1990, out at major
News Vevo confirms it’s going to launch a subscription tier Erik Huggers says ad-supported-only model 'isn't sustainable'
News Spotify wants 30m subscribers so badly, it’s giving away Google Chromecast Streaming service signed deal with Google device in September last year
News Daniel Ek on YouTube, SoundCloud and why he didn’t build Spotify to sell it 'Streaming is behind the growth in music, and Spotify is behind the growth in streaming'