News Vevo partners with Dutch music video platform XITE to launch new Apple TV app New app will be a 'free, ad-supported experience'
News Warner Music Group raises $250m in debt to fund future acquisitions (Update) New influx of money adds to WMG's $532m in cash and cash equivalents to boost spending power
News Warner Music’s ADA expands into Japan Local ADA team will be led by respected executive Kaz Aida, who joins from Universal Music
News $100m-backed VR platform Sensorium Galaxy partners with superstar DJ Carl Cox Cox will perform a series of exclusive DJ sets in virtual reality
News Sony Music Masterworks acquires majority stake in artist manager Jonathan Shank’s Terrapin Station Entertainment Masterworks will work in partnership with Shank to curate and spearhead a range of live productions
News Snapchat launches music feature to rival TikTok Company has multi-year deals with a number of major and independent publishers & labels
News Big Hit CEO Bang Si-hyuk now worth comfortably more than $2bn as BTS firm’s IPO takes flight in Korea "We will uphold the stockholder's value in various terms by raising profitability, growth potential and contributions to society."
News US tech giant Cloudflare ordered to block music piracy site in Germany Court in Germany issued injunction on Friday October, 9
News Sony Music and Grammy winning artist Residente launch studios to make ‘films, TV series, documentaries and all kinds of visual content’ Residente will write and direct TV shows/programming, films and other content
News IFPI and WIN’s new data exchange service RDx now ‘fully operational’ More than one million pieces of repertoire data already processed by RDx
News Sony/ATV signs Frank Ski to worldwide deal One of his songs was recently sampled in WAP by Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion
News Nas’ Mass Appeal India signs superstar Indian rapper IKKA Label was launched in August 2019 in partnership with Universal Music India
News Is Spotify in for a rough ride from UK politicians? New inquiry from British government to examine business models operated by streaming firms
News Warner Music Baltics opens office in Tallinn, Estonia First local signing is Estonian artist NOËP
News Sony Music partners with music & tech entrepreneur Rob Ronaldson on new Robots + Humans imprint Ronaldson to launch Robots + Humans through Sony Music UK & Publishing Partnership with Sony/ATV
News Fleetwood Mac’s Dreams generated over 36m global streams in the last two weeks following viral TikTok video, confirms Warner Music Group Classic track exploded after a video from TikTok star Nathan Apodaca went viral
News TuneCore has paid indie artists over $2bn to date – and is now paying them over $400m per year Fresh statistics shine a light on the growth of one of DIY distribution's biggest names
News Tiffany R. Warren appointed Executive Vice President, Chief Diversity And Inclusion Officer at Sony Music Group She will work with all of Sony Music Group’s global recorded music, publishing and corporate divisions