Amazon In The News

Amazon Music hires Andre Stapleton as Head of US Label Relations

Exec joins Amazon from Sony Music Entertainment

Alexa is coming to cars, thanks to new Amazon developer kit

Developer kit released to install Alexa within car dashboards

Spotify is on a collision course with the major record companies. Here’s why.

Spotify has a number of tricky issues to face down during its 2019 negotiations with the biggest labels

Amazon Music to launch in Brazil

Retailer on hunt for Head of Digital Music in the region

Spotify inks deal with Samsung to be Apple rival’s ‘go-to music service provider’

Daniel Ek says deal will "help artists reach new fans"

Why Spotify faces a difficult hardware conundrum (and so does Sonos)

Can both music 'pureplay' companies keep the likes of Amazon and Apple at bay?

The music business’s biggest stories of the past week: Universal, Vivendi, Sony, Apple, Troy Carter

Here's what caught our attention over the past seven days...

‘A lot of artists end up frustrated if they sign away their independence.’

Following a period of rapid global expansion, Ditto Music now has 19 offices around the world – and says it’s investing to build the music industry model of the future...