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‘The current situation is going to dramatically change the music business, as a huge accelerator of user behavior on the digital side.’

Believe CEO Denis Ladegaillerie discusses the prospects for physical music amid COVID-19 lockdown

Songtradr offers artists free music distribution until September 30: ‘We’ve been doing what we can, but we need to do more.’

Songtradr previously sacrificed commission fees for sync to help artists hit by COVID-19

‘Anyone can go out and spend $1 billion. The trick is getting a good return for your investors.’

Round Hill Music CEO, Josh Gruss, on the competitive music M&A landscape, and his firm's next big raise

Music streaming subscriptions forecast to top 450m by the end of 2020 (report)

Subscriptions reached 358m by the end of 2019, according to Counterpoint Research

Pro Music Rights formally recognized as performance rights organization by National Religious Broadcasters Music License Committee

Florida-based royalty collection firm formally recognized by NRBMLC

Songtradr sacrifices fees, giving 100% of sync money to artists, for a full month, in response to COVID-19 woes

"Artists have supported us through our journey. Now it’s time for us to step up and support them in a big way."

Amazon ‘still very much business as usual’ for record labels in the UK, says distributor Proper Music

"I think music finds itself further up the pecking order than maybe people thought it would."

Coronavirus clobbers music retail, as Amazon halts trade orders of CD and vinyl

FNAC shuts down physical stores in France, as Germany begins "far-reaching" measures