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for Madison Square Garden Company’s proposed MSG Sphere venue in London 'AEG requests that the application should be withdrawn,' states company spokesperson
News 3 things to know about Spotify’s controversial new ‘pay for influence’ tool, Discovery Mode MBW sits down with Spotify to ask about its new tool, which some have accused of bearing the hallmarks of payola
News Warner Chappell Music renews deal with Chinese superstar David Tao 'His evergreen songs have been very influential to the development of Asian music,' says Monica Lee, President, Warner Chappell Asia Pacific
News ONErpm partners with Unison for pan-European and pan-African collection Unison launched at the beginning of 2020 and represents the management of more than 600,000 works
News African music service Mdundo now has 6.4m Monthly Active Users, up from 5m in June Company listed on the Danish stock exchange in September
News AMPED inks North American physical distribution deal with Entertainment One eOne’s labels include Death Row Records, Dualtone Records and Artemis Records
News Tencent Music Entertainment Group and peermusic strike exclusive digital licensing deal in China Catalog includes songs from artists like Jimmie Rodgers, Buddy Holly and The Rolling Stones to Rihanna, Beyoncé and Justin Bieber
News Did Ya Know? podcast launches from music industry veterans Danny D and Adrian Sykes MBW and Music Business UK to support new project