Analysis Spain’s piracy fightback continues: music market up 11% as streaming jumps 40% Country lost 500m euro annual income from piracy
News Downtown Music Publishing to represent Fania catalogue worldwide New York company will represent publishing catalogue
News Russian collection societies merge – but there’s ‘internal war’ Sound recordings body VOIS rallies against merger
News Samsung dumps Deezer, switches to Google Play for UK 6 month deal Android device maker launches six-month deal with Google
News The UK is now streaming music a billion times each week Average Brit is streaming music 2.5 times a day
Analysis Is Apple Music having ‘no meaningful impact’ on streaming market? Pandora boss dismisses new rival; MBW analysis backs him up
News Midem boss Bruno Crolot exits organisation after five years Crolot joined Reed Midem from Sony in 2010
News Pandora generates $1bn in 12 months as its listener numbers grow But $16m net loss takes gloss off results
News Simon Darlow tells BASCA to ‘keep modernising’ as he steps down as Chair Exec continues in his role at the UK's PRS For Music
Interviews Why can’t Ministry Of Sound just play nice like everybody else? Lohan Presencer on Apple Music, SoundCloud and talking to artists
News Beatport signs deal to bring its exclusive content to Spotify More distribution partners will be announced soon
Analysis Google loves Spotify, which is hurting Apple, which is in a war for global domination against… Google. And people say music’s lost its value. This really, really is one hell of a year for the music business
Analysis CD sales crash in Finland – but streaming revenues grow market Sony the leading record company as streaming grows 40%
News Apple Music boasts ‘millions’ of users, 15k artists sign up to Connect 'Millions' also listening to Beats 1, says Tim Cook