News Google, Amazon and Pandora join forces to fight music industry over royalty rates Powerful lobbying group ready to scrap on performance rights and radio
News Piracy wounded in Germany as ‘tracker’ sites taken down Trackers co-ordinate 'give and take' on torrent sites
News Apple poaches top producers from BBC Radio 1 for new Spotify rival Four producers set to join Zane Lowe at Cupertino giant, MBW understands
News Downloads down 12% in UK, albums down 5% – but streaming soars 81% Overall album sales fall 5.3% in unit terms
News Spotify’s Daniel Ek launches conference for ‘Brilliant Minds’. Tickets cost $2,900. Symposium Stockholm takes place between June 8-13
News Americans really don’t want to pay for music in their cars 80% of US drivers listening to free music say they would not be willing to pay in future
News Grooveshark faces possible $736m payout as Universal damages trial kicks off Sam Tarantino and Josh Greenberg face a jury today
News Jay Z accuses Tidal rivals of ‘smear campaign’ as platform hits 770k subscribers 'Our actions will speak louder than our words', says Shawn Carter
News Holland’s CTM signs Dirty Dancing, Little Feat, Steve Miller deals Sub-publishing deals for Imagem's sister company
News Warner owner Len Blavatnik is Britain’s richest billionaire Blavatnik is 18 times richer than Sir Paul McCartney
News Don’t spend it all at once, artists: Pandora is paying out $0.0001 more per stream than it was last year Service now paying out $0.0014 each time an ad-funded user streams
News Pandora loses 2m listeners and $48m in three months Total active listeners fall under 80m people
News India’s music business will almost double in value by 2019 – KPMG Optimistic forecast, but subscription services income cut in half in 2014
News Canada’s ole acquires Mark-Cain catalogue and Taurus recordings Includes Max Webster, Ian Thomas and Lawrence Gowan tracks