News Sony and Tencent’s JV label, Liquid State, hires Victor Lee as its new Managing Director Exec will work with artists including R3HAB and billion-stream Chinese producer CORSAK
News Epidemic Sound posted $42m in net revenues in 2019 – and a $23m operating loss Controversial production music company's financials laid bare by MBW
News Spotify gets serious about its charts, launching weekly Top 50 lists for Albums and Songs Platform also launches new Debuts charts to track early popularity of tracks and albums
News Amazon Music partners with Universal, Warner to exclusively offer streaming albums in ‘better than CD quality’ Ultra HD "With this partnership, we are building upon that promise by upgrading existing recordings to make the listening experience even better, and preserving artistic legacy for future generations."
News Ceci Kurzman joins Warner Music Group’s Board of Directors Max Lousada steps down as Director on Warner's Board
News TuneCore’s new leadership: Andreea Gleeson and Matt Barrington to jointly run company following departure of CEO Duo have a combined 15 years of experience working at TuneCore
Interviews How Better Noise is expanding beyond music – to help its artists, and recovering addicts Better Noise's MD in Europe, Dan Waite, on the "socially conscious" company's multimedia strategy and new movie, Sno Babies
News Italy’s recorded music industry grew 2.1% in H1 2020, with streaming up 26.4% FIMI's Enzo Mazza talks MBW through the market's numbers
Analysis News Music piracy hasn’t gone away – it’s just changed shape New PRS report shows explosion in stream-ripping activity in market in past three years
News Kobalt set to sell up (or just raise capital)? "We’ve always had great interest in the company. This is nothing new."
Interviews ‘A flood of money into music IP is about to change the music industry forever.’ BMG CEO Hartwig Masuch on catalog vs. hits – and what big money investors want out of music
News Island Records and Warner Chappell sign poutyface, discovered via music app Voisey Over 11 millions songs have been recorded on Voisey so far
News Motown launches in the UK, Rob Pascoe named MD as Afryea Henry-Fontaine becomes Marketing Director Duo become Rebecca Allen's first appointments in her role as President of EMI Records
Analysis TikTok and Spotify now neck-and-neck for users in Europe – but TikTok’s bigger in the US TikTok now has over 100m MAUs apiece in Europe and the United States
News Over a million people are watching UFC on US TV. Now, it’s got its own music streaming app. "We feel UFC Ultimate Sound is the first step in a new direction for both the music industry and professional sports."