News XL Recordings A&R head Imran Ahmed departs label after 12 years Exec will launch new venture in Los Angeles after taking a month out
Analysis News Will Spotify’s renewed love of ‘free’ make labels at all uncomfortable? Some thoughts about the power of words, and Spotify's use of them
News PRS for Music will now be paid 4% of concert ticket sales in the UK That's a 1% increase thanks to new tariff approved by Copyright Tribunal
News Live Nation launches investment fund for female-led live businesses Fund aims to help underrepresented female entrepreneurs in the global concert promotions, events and festival spaces
News Apple Music has 50m subscribers and/or trialists – up 2m from April Tim Cook reveals tidbit in new interview with Bloomberg
News Merlin cashes in its entire equity stake in Spotify "We worked quickly to liquidate our interest in Spotify and have passed the proceeds to our eligible members."
News Sony Music Entertainment Japan pays $185m to buy 39% in Snoopy cartoon company Peanuts Entertainment firm has previously represented Peanuts rights on licensing deal
News Apple Music teams with Shawn Mendes for one-off live concert Event to be live-streamed on YouTube
News Scott Maclachlan named SVP of A&R at Warner Music Australasia Successful artist manager discovered Lorde in 2009
News RCA Records promotes Keith Naftaly to President, A&R Exec has most recently worked on albums by P!nk, Kesha and G-Eazy
News The Orchard names Jessica Phelps General Manager, Nashville Phelps joins from Q Prime Management
News TIDAL and Prince Estate reach deal to release new music, cease legal tussle "We will continue to respect and honor Prince's enduring legacy and wishes with this new collection," says Jay Z
News SoundCloud hires SoundExchange’s Mark Eisenberg as SVP, Content Partnerships Ex-Sony exec will be based in New York
News Warner quietly launches free Tunecore rival for unsigned artists Level Music doesn't charge artists for uploading their tracks
News YouTube launches expanded music charts in 44 countries “Unfortunately with their update, Billboard is essentially saying that the music fans that count are those with credit cards.”