Analysis Team Adele wages war on ticket touts – and so far it’s working Less than 2% of pre-sale tickets make their way onto secondary market
News Spotify’s Kevin Brown is the new Chairman of the UK’s Official Charts Former EMI, BMG and Polygram exec joined Spotify in 2013
News Canada’s Supreme Court rules media must pay for audiovisual recordings Big decision for 'creative middle class' in territory
Analysis Adele: 25 bonkers facts about 25’s mindblowing first week These are sales figures that the world will remember for a long time to come
Analysis News BBC Sound Of… 2016 list revealed – but how much does it really matter? Just 10% of artists picked by judges have gone on to platinum success
News Coco Carmona succeeds Ger Hatton as ICMP Director General Hatton exits after eight years at trade body
News Have Deezer and Ministry of Sound kissed and made up? Not quite There's a MoS page on Deezer - but the label says it's no big deal
Analysis Don’t dismiss Adele’s success as a miracle. You’re better than that. Whatever happened to 'why not'?
News Adele has (sort of) scrubbed Oasis’s Be Here Now from UK record books. But it’s complicated. MBW explains why 25 technically has the biggest week-one in history
News Sony and Universal agenda ‘a huge threat’ despite indies’ US licensing victory, says Mills US Register Of Copyrights essentially quashes major labels' request - for now
News Adele’s going to top 3m US sales in a single week – she only needs 200k more Ms Adkins laughs in the face of the 'album is dead' crowd
Analysis How Global Release Day has stuffed Thanksgiving week in the US Has the new Friday release date put the kibosh on a key sales opportunity for labels?
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