IFPI In The News

BMG’s Managing Director in Brazil, John Telfer, leaves company

BMG acquired Telfer's Basement Brazil firm last year

Facebook offers ‘hundreds of millions of dollars’ to labels and publishers for global licences

Can it match the $553m paid out by video services last year?

Goldman Sachs: Universal is worth $23.5bn – and streaming revenues will jump 500%+ by 2030

New report suggests the good times are really about to roll for the music business

Lyor Cohen: YouTube pays out more than Spotify for ad-supported streams in the US

Exec makes bold claims as he reviews his first eight months at Google's video service

BMG expands in Canada with Black Box Music partnership

Black Box boss Jason Murray will head up operation

‘In Germany, we take chances with artists – no matter where they’re from’

Universal Music's CEO of Central Europe, Frank Briegmann, on his home territory's evolution

Sony Music to start manufacturing its own vinyl for the first time in nearly 30 years

Major's Japan-based music division to start pressing discs just outside Tokyo

Canadian courts can now force Google to remove illegal sites from searches

Music business celebrates landmark decision against world's biggest search engine