Analysis Team Adele wages war on ticket touts – and so far it’s working Less than 2% of pre-sale tickets make their way onto secondary market
Analysis Adele: 25 bonkers facts about 25’s mindblowing first week These are sales figures that the world will remember for a long time to come
Analysis News BBC Sound Of… 2016 list revealed – but how much does it really matter? Just 10% of artists picked by judges have gone on to platinum success
Analysis Don’t dismiss Adele’s success as a miracle. You’re better than that. Whatever happened to 'why not'?
Analysis How Global Release Day has stuffed Thanksgiving week in the US Has the new Friday release date put the kibosh on a key sales opportunity for labels?
Analysis Why Adele’s 25 can, can’t and just might top 3m week one US sales… If 25 drops off at its current rate, it won't make 3m. But if it can be adjusted to 25%...
Analysis Bill Gates said content would be king. So why are ad-funded services paying us so little? The BPI's Geoff Taylor discusses labels' big challenges in 2015 - especially YouTube
Analysis Adele is NOT No.1 on this chart (and it’s a really important one) Latest piracy charts throw assumed logic into question. Adele does that a lot.
Analysis Pandora’s aggressive plot to defeat Spotify: 5 things you need to know A new on-demand rival to streaming's biggest players is coming. Can it compete?
Analysis If YouTube really loves music, it’s time it did something Spotify won’t. Won't someone show Adele some premium-only respect?
Analysis UMG digital income falls by $18m – Apple Music blamed for surprise dip Vivendi boss tells UMG to brace itself for 'transition' in 2016 and 2017
Analysis Universal has a Taylor Swift-shaped hole to plug in Q4 UMG doesn't quite have a 1989 equivalent in the coming months
Analysis News Streaming income overtakes download at Universal as digital sales rise 6% Streaming now bigger than downloads at UMG
Analysis Hang on… is the A&R hit rate of UK major labels just 5.7%? A different way of looking at the BPI's latest A&R stats