Analysis Norway’s music market stopped growing in 2014 – because the CD crashed and burned Physical sales down 38%, downloads down 15%
News Italy: Pink Floyd, One Direction, Coldplay in Top 10 albums of 2014 Vasco Rossi is bestseller in the year
News Nettwerk acquires ex-Roadrunner publishing company Robot Of The Century Young The Giant and Black Stone Cherry move over with deal
News DJ Semtex returns to Sony, hired by his old boss Jason Iley DJ returns in A&R role after 14 years
News Indian streaming service Saavn hits 11m active users, hires Google vet Streaming volume has multiplied by three in past year to 200m per month
Blog The music industry’s worst nightmare is nearly here: Amazon and Apple as content kings Amazon is becoming a content producer. Apple is already a label. Worried?
News Italian football league Serie A signs major music licensing deal SCF represents more than 95% of all repertoire distributed in Italy
Analysis News Shazam valued at $1bn – but it hasn’t turned a profit for over 7 years Last posted a net profit in 2006 - £4.28m
News It took one person to write Happy by Pharrell Williams. It took 16 to write Timber by Pitbull. Dr Luke scored three hits on three continents in 2014
News Imagem signs global deal with Berlin’s Steam Music Co-publishing deal comes just a month after shutters were put up on potential sale
News Spotify: how free music and OAPs can help us become Angry Birds 'There are 7bn people in the world. 6.95bn don't use Spotify. That's mind-blowing.'
News Pharrell ruled EU radio in 2014 – but Milky Chance stuck up for the independents Stolen Dance was heard on 15.8bn separate occasions across Europe in 2014