News Warner’s Arts Music inks global partnership with Skyship Entertainment for children’s brand Super Simple Songs Brand has amassed over 24m subscribers on YouTube
News Sentric Music Group and Prolifica Management strike publishing joint venture Prolifica clients Maximo Park and Childe are the first to be signed under partnership
News Tom Hoare rejoins [PIAS] as UK Head of Digital Exec was previously Head of Digital at Syco Music
News Hi-Res music service Qobuz raises $11m to fund global expansion Céline Gallon joins Qobuz as Chief People Officer
Blog Live streaming must respect the rights of songwriters "Music is central to the livestreaming phenomenon."
News BTS partners with Epic Games for new video premiere on Fortnite’s Party Royale Main Stage In-game event to take place on Friday, September 25
News Mark Fry promoted to President of Warner Music Nordics Jonas Siljemark will be retiring after 18 years as President of Warner Music Nordics
News Amazon Music launches new Latin music brand including emerging artist program, merch, podcasts & playlists New global brand launches under the tagline of La Música Que Nos Conecta
Analysis News Music piracy hasn’t gone away – it’s just changed shape New PRS report shows explosion in stream-ripping activity in market in past three years
News Trump’s TikTok takedown: App downloads will be blocked in US from this Sunday Move made "to safeguard the national security of the United States"
News Alex Branson and Pj Dulay join AI-powered video creation app Rotor Videos UK-based company also announces 'triple-digit revenue growth' during COVID-19 quarantine
Analysis Interviews 5 Things We Learned From Warner Music Group boss Steve Cooper at his Goldman Sachs interview WMG's Chief Executive was grilled today at the annual Goldman Sachs Communacopia event
News Beatport inks exclusive livestreaming partnership with Twitch Beatport’s Twitch channel has over 140,000 followers
News Over 500,000 tracks affected by YouTube music video block in Denmark YouTube in dispute with Koda, which claims the platform is "making [Koda] responsible for [its] commercial strategy in relation to putting ads on content”.
News Kobalt set to sell up (or just raise capital)? "We’ve always had great interest in the company. This is nothing new."
News TIDAL to livestream concert series in partnership with Facebook’s Oculus VR All performances will be available simultaneously in Oculus Venues and TIDAL
Interviews ‘A flood of money into music IP is about to change the music industry forever.’ BMG CEO Hartwig Masuch on catalog vs. hits – and what big money investors want out of music
Interviews A giant new 100k-capacity arena in Italy is riding out the pandemic – before hosting huge shows in 2021 The RCF Arena has already sold out a 100,000-ticket concert – with big plans for next year