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News Parlophone’s ‘new chapter’ begins with historic trio of UK No.1s Mark Mitchell and Nick Burgess answer MBW's questions on a big day for their Warner label
News Pandora’s user base is now nearly one quarter of the size of Spotify’s, having lost 1.8m listeners in three months Service ended Q3 with nearly 6.3m 'self-pay' subscribers
Analysis News Sony Music posts another billion-dollar quarter, as streaming revenues grow 21% Sony labels have posted more than $3bn in revenue in first three months of 2019
Interviews What’s Facebook’s game plan in music? Tamara Hrivnak explains how FB is "filling a gap" in the marketplace
News Spotify hits 113m subscribers, up 5m in three months Company reveals subscriber and user growth for Q3 in latest financial update
News Spotify CFO Barry McCarthy to exit company in January McCarthy will be replaced by Paul Vogel, currently Spotify’s VP of FP&A, Treasury and Investor Relations
News Steve Clark, global administration head at Warner Chappell, is leaving the publisher Popular exec currently holds the position of EVP of Global Operations
News Record labels can now pay Spotify to promote artists on the platform, via pop-up ‘Music For You’ alerts US-only 'test' is first official sign of Spotify charging labels and artists for 'two-sided marketplace'
News Lizzo fights back against Truth Hurts copyright claim with her own fierce lawsuit "The Raisens did not write any part of the material in question; they did not come up with the idea of including the lyric in the unreleased demo," claims lawsuit