Goldman Sachs In The News

Fender partners with Apple Music on subscription app Fender Songs

Company has also inked deals with publishers and master rights holders

Silver Lake acquires entertainment & ticketing giant TEG

TEG delivers 30 million tickets annually

Interviews News

Rob Stringer talks Sony’s strategy, Tencent/Universal… and why music is worth more than ‘2 minutes of someone snoring in Lapland’

Sony Music Group Chairman & CEO gives his thoughts on the modern marketplace

Spotify: ‘Owning’ discovery of music will lead to improved gross margin

Paul Vogel tackles user demand, podcasts and label negotiations in Goldman Sachs interview

Official: Subscription streaming revenue growth is slowing down in the UK

Is key global market showing very first signs of streaming saturation?

A day after Spotify quits artist distribution, SoundCloud explains how it helps indie acts ‘build careers on their own terms’

Blog post was followed by an Instagram Q&A to "answer creator’s questions about distribution".

The Universal fire may be ‘heartbreaking’ – but don’t expect much impact on the music biz story of the year

"It is not clear to us that the fire in the LA storage facility should have any impact on either the valuation of UMG or the sale process."

Goldman Sachs says 1.15bn people will pay for music streaming by 2030, as it ups industry forecast

'Music In The Air' update brings optimistic news for record companies