Amazon Music In The News

LANDR closes $26m Series B funding round

The round was led by the likes of Sony Innovation Fund, microphone manufacturer Shure and others

Ed Sheeran’s No.6 Collaborations album isn’t a record-breaker – but it just cleared 100m Spotify streams in three days

Album generated $500,000 for Sheeran and Atlantic Records on Spotify in its first three days of availability

Amazon Music is the fastest growing streaming service – report

The FT reports that Amazon had over 32 million subscribers at the end of April

Because Music boss Emmanuel De Buretel calls for Spotify and rivals to adopt ‘user-centric’ licensing

'The so-called 'user centric' model, based on a user-based income distribution, would be more virtuous.'

‘Music is significantly undervalued – people are thinking about it in the wrong way.’

Kobalt's Willard Ahdritz talks publishing, major record companies, and the true worth of the business today

The music industry is tackling streaming fraud with a pointless ‘Code’. It won’t work… but these ideas might.

Penalties for artists, penalties for staff, more funding – why wasn't any of this in the industry's own policies?

Merlin paid indie labels and distributors $845m in the past year, showing strong growth

Merlin has now paid indies more than $2bn from digital services since being founded

The major record labels are signing over 50 artists a month. Is that too many?

The majors are inking deals with over 600 artists every year