News Narcis Rebollo promoted to President of Universal Music in Iberia Exec steps up from role as MD of Spain
News Elizabeth Matthews replaces John LoFrumento as CEO at ASCAP Matthews joined ASCAP from Viacom in 2013
News Bloomberg vet Andy Fixmer named VP, Global Comms at Universal Exec will report into Will Tanous at UMG
News Warner/Chappell Production acquires news theme company 'Gari is a well-known and trusted source for these themes'
Analysis Here’s a cold, hard fact about Spotify. Can the music industry live with it? A quarter of Spotify's users pay - a stat that's been the same for three years
News Spotify storms past 15m paying subscribers milestone Platform has added 10m users in a month-and-a-half
News Pandora’s share price tumbles 50% in a year Concern over a slowdown in listening hours hits hard
News Rock music is twice as popular as pop in America – but R&B rules streaming Rock takes 33% of album sales vs. pop's 11%
News New Spanish chart counts streams, downloads and CD sales Streaming accounts for 70% of Spain's national singles chart
News Proper signs EU-wide partnership with H’Art Musik and Bertus Distribution Proper becomes 'one stop shop' for distribution in Europe
News Radio, not YouTube, is still king of music discovery 51% of US consumers use radio to discover new music
News Actually, album sales are doing fine in America… so long as you’re not iTunes, Walmart or Target 'Non-traditional' retail posts 5% increase in album sales
News US music fans now spend more on concerts than CDs, downloads and streaming combined Streaming claims just 3% of the average fan's yearly spend
News Is Universal fixing streaming’s transparency problem? Bono seems to think so… U2 man says UMG can 'direct-credit' artists with streaming payments
News Most hit singles in the UK are by non-British artists More than 97% of CD singles sold in Japan are by local artists
News Deezer set to challenge Spotify in US after swooping for Muve Pricetag believed to be less than $100m