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
News Facebook has 10 times as many users as Spotify and Pandora combined Total video views on social network now rival YouTube
News Global launches live music arm, hires Bon Jovi manager and AEG’s Sam Bush Teams with AEG for Rolling Stones concert in the US
News Alt-J, Hozier and FKA Twigs amongst Ivor Novello 2015 nominees Bear's Den and George Ezra also make shortlist
News Ed Sheeran tracks have made $14m on Spotify Calcuation based on Spotify's own public payout rate
News Tidal’s popularity plummets on US and UK Apple charts App has slid over 700 places on unofficial iOS rankings since launch
News Canada set to extend artist copyright term from 50 to 70 years Leonard Cohen and others welcome move
News Lucian Grainge joins WME and Vessel at Technology Innovators Forum BBC Worldwide, UK Trade and Investment and The Chernin Group will also attend
News ReverbNation launches music publishing operation with Sentric CONNECT Songs will offer administration under a revenue sharing model