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Lyor Cohen warns music industry over ‘unintended consequences’ of Article 13

YouTube’s Global Head of Music slams Article 13 in a monthly newsletter to industry execs

Johnny Hallyday album shatters records, selling more week-one units in France than Drake’s Scorpion did in the USA

MBW expects that the album generated more than $14m in a single week

Downtown signs Theophilus London to his first music publishing deal

Deal with Kanye West collaborator includes catalog

Universal signs K-pop girl band to Interscope – can they repeat BTS success?

The South Korean quartet is currently the highest-charting female K-pop act in Billboard Hot 100 history

Forget Drake. The music sales story of the year could soon be Johnny Hallyday.

Mon Pays C'est L'amour shifted more than 630,000 copies in three days

Fortnite is a video game phenomenon. The music business could learn a lot from its success.

Innovative pricing and content approaches are leading to massive revenues for Epic Games title

Shamrock Capital buys Stargate publishing catalog, including Rihanna, Katy Perry hits

Tor Hermansen and Mikkel Eriksen have worked with Rihanna for a decade

Spotify’s Latin playlists head Rocío Guerrero quits streaming platform to join Warner Music Group

Exec built ¡Viva Latino! and Baila Reggaeton over a seven-year tenure