YouTube In The News

BMG, Beggars Group and Hipgnosis each have strong opinions on streaming. Here are those opinions.

Submissions to the UK's Parlimentary inquiry into streaming are released for public consumption

Natalie Madaj promoted to SVP, Digital Licensing, Americas and Daniel Lang upped to VP, Digital Licensing, EMEIA at Warner Chappell Music

The pair will help oversee Warner Chappell’s commercial digital initiatives around the globe

TaP Music’s Hannah Neaves and YouTube’s Azi Eftekhari launch new creative agency, Remedy Inc.

First projects include Fashion x Music film for YouTube’s Legacy Series and general management of paid live-streams for Universal’s new content studio Mercury Studios

News

Warner Music inks exclusive distribution deal with Punjabi music company Sky Digital India

Deal will see Warner Music India help to grow Sky Digital’s market share in the country

Analysis Blog

Why I Just Moved To The Middle East

For years, Spek has been a fixture of the UK and US music publishing industries – and their relationship with the MENA region. Here, he explains why he recently upped sticks from New York to live in (and work from) the UAE...

Analysis

UK record industry nears $2bn in pandemic-hit 2020 – but streaming growth slows significantly

Subscription streaming pulls in over $1.5bn in retail revenue alone, according to ERA figures

News

Nearly a third of all streams in the US last year were of hip-hop and R&B artists (as rock beat pop to second most popular streaming genre)

The Box by Roddy Ricch was the year's biggest streaming track in the States, with over a billion plays across audio and video

Interviews

‘Streaming’s growth in Africa is already exciting, but there’s so much more we can do’

Zimbabwean, British-raised exec Sipho Dlamani is heading up Universal Music Group in much of Africa. He forecasts a big future for the region and its impact around the world...