American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) In The News

Podcast company Audio Up raises nearly $10m, with plans to invest funds into music side of its business

Company has raised $20m to date

YouTube Music and Premium surpass 80m paid subscribers

That subscriber figure marks a 30 million increase on the last subscriber figure

The three major music publishers now own or control over 10 million songs between them (kind of)

Investor figures from the three majors suggest they are – or will soon be – looking after double-digit millions of songs

Michael Knox promoted to President of peermusic Nashville

Knox previously served as Senior Vice President of peermusic Nashville

Mike Caren’s APG and Luke Mitzman’s 100 Management strike partnership focusing on music producers and entrepreneurs

First clients include Cirkut, Stargate and Alex Da Kid

Jennifer Knoepfle joins Universal Music Publishing Group as Executive Vice President and Co-Head of US A&R

Knoepfle joins UMPG from Sony Music Publishing, where she was most recently SVP, Creative

Frank Rogers promoted to Chief Creative Officer at Spirit Music Group

Rogers will continue to oversee Spirit Music Nashville’s operational activities

David Gray promoted to expanded role as Head of newly-formed UMPG Global Creative Group

UMPG says that the Global Creative Group is a team of senior A&R executives across key territories