News Beyoncé inks multi-year partnership with luxury fitness brand Peloton Content is accessible via Peloton's app and equipment
News BMG inks label deal with composer Nils Frahm and manager Felix Grimm Newly launched production company, Leiter, is based in Germany's Berlin-Kreuzberg
News Spotify to buy podcast ad platform Megaphone for $235m, bringing its total podcast acquisition spend to over $800m in the past 2 years Megaphone provides hosting and ad-insertion capabilities for podcast publishers
News Kanye West was the biggest songwriter in the US in Q3, with 39 certifications He was followed by Lil Wayne, with 25 certifications
News Veronica Vaccarezza promoted to SVP, Business Development, US Latin at Sony/ATV Exec is responsible for driving growth through digital and strategic initiatives
News Sentric Music Group signs British rock band Don Broco to exclusive songwriting agreement Their latest LP, Technology hit No.5 on the UK Album Chart
News Nick Woollard joins Songtradr as SVP Of Global Platform Sales Exec brings over a decade of music licensing experience and will lead Songtradr’s growing subscription business
News Live Nation share price rockets up by over 22% on COVID-19 vaccine news (update) Pfizer vaccine found to be more than 90% effective
News Stu Bergen announces exit from Warner Music Group after 14 years WMG exec to leave in January 2021, after eight years leading the firm's international strategy
Analysis News Refunds, revenues and redundancies: Behind the numbers of Live Nation’s Q3 earnings What we learned from Michael Rapino and co. during firm's quarterly fiscal update last week
News Kate Wyn Jones joins EMI Records as Business Development Director "We are incredibly excited that Kate is to join the EMI family," says EMI boss Rebecca Allen
Interviews ‘There needs to be a more sustainable way for artists to earn money.’ WeTransfer's Head of Music, Tiff Yu, chats working with Frank Ocean, transparency in the business, and lessons learned across her career.
News Live Nation has already lost out on $7bn of revenue due to COVID-19 – and will slash costs by $900m across course of 2020 "We estimate the lost revenue impact from the global COVID-19 pandemic in the third quarter and first nine months of 2020 to be approximately $3.7 billion and $7.0 billion, respectively."
News UK-based livestream firm Driift expands into Australia and New Zealand Company has worked with artists such as Laura Marling, Nick Cave, Dermot Kennedy, Biffy Clyro, James Bay, Niall Horan and others
News Andrew Stess joins Tuned Global as Head of Sales and Business Development for the US Former Gracenote and AmpliFIND exec to lead US expansion
News Capitol Music Group’s Steve Barnett to retire, Jeff Vaughn and Michelle Jubelirer to lead company from January 2021 'Under Steve’s leadership, Capitol has been rebuilt into one of music’s greatest homes for artist and employee talent,' says Sir Lucian Grainge
News SOCAN revenues grew 8.2% in 2019 – but payments to songwriters and publishers shrunk by 6% Distributions to members in 2019 totalled CAD $296m, compared with CAD $315m distributed in 2018
News O2 Arena owner AEG slams ‘hopelessly inadequate’ evidence for Madison Square Garden Company’s proposed MSG Sphere venue in London 'AEG requests that the application should be withdrawn,' states company spokesperson