Amazon In The News

40 things that have happened in the 758 days since Warner Music Group promised the indies $200m+ in assets

A lot can happen in over 18,000 hours

Will Mills quits Shazam after 12 years to join LyricFind

Mills was VP of Music and Content at discovery app

The Orchard acquires Blind Pig Records catalogue

Repertoire includes Muddy Waters

In 1998, I told the major labels to create their own iTunes. They laughed at me.

One exec's story of seeing the writing on the wall

Physical music retailers grew 20% in the UK last year

But CD sales are now less than a third of what they were in 2004

Forever young? The average age of today’s biggest pop stars is 38

Michael Jackson, AC/DC and Pink Floyd on list

BMI hires Warner/Chappell’s Sweeney as Global Policy head

Exec will fight to maximise global royalty collections for BMI

Working in music for the money? You’re doing it wrong.

UK video games industry hit £3.94bn in 2014, presumably overtaking music