News Primary Wave agrees ‘multi-million deal’ to acquire majority stake in Ray Charles’ pre-1964 publishing catalog Deal includes majority of publishing and writer's share, as well as all administration rights, for some of the soul legend's biggest hits
News BMG launches neighboring rights service, The Who’s Roger Daltrey signs up Heading the new service is VP Operations Strategy David Miller
News Universal Music Turkey signs hip-hop stars Anil Piyanci & Lil Zey Anil Piyanci is one of the most streamed domestic rappers in Turkey
News Live Nation New Zealand concerts to include temperature screening, contact tracing, social distancing 'Live Nation NZ is excited to be welcoming back live events in New Zealand.'
Analysis News Goldman Sachs just cut its 2020 paid music streaming revenue forecast by $2.2bn… but the future still looks bright Adjustments to the financial giant's forecasts say much about the future of the music business at large
News Spotify inks multi-year exclusive deal for The Joe Rogan Experience podcast, including audio and video 'We're very excited to begin this new chapter of the JRE and I hope you're there when we cross over.'
News YouTube backs 12 artists from around the world for 2020 Foundry development program Program supports independent artists at the early stages of their careers
News Sony/ATV signs Rod Wave to worldwide deal First studio album Pray 4 Love earned over 100m streams in the first week
News Kenny Chesney signs with UMPG for exclusive global publishing deal He has more than 30 million in album sales worldwide
News Sony/ATV Nashville signs Kameron Marlowe to global publishing deal Independently released debut single, Giving You Up, has earned 25m streams
Interviews ‘We have built one of the biggest accounts on Instagram – and one of the fastest growing on TikTok.’ We Generate founders Joshua Brandon and Luka Zak discuss the modern marketing playbook in music
News BMG inks deal with AI music company that ‘respects the integrity of music composition’ Deal will see over 15,000 tracks from BMGPM's catalog integrated into MatchTune
News Bytedance poaches Disney’s Kevin Mayer to become TikTok’s new CEO Exec recently led the successful launch of Disney Plus
News ‘You can buy No.1s on Billboard’: Tekashi 6ix9ine claims 30,000 Ariana Grande single sales were purchased using 6 credit cards Rapper lets the accusations fly as he misses out on Hot 100 No.1 record
News Island Records ‘couldn’t be prouder’ as Skip Marley makes history in US as chart-topping Jamaican artist Slow Down tops Adult R&B Songs chart
News Spotify adds 12 new original podcasts in India and inks content partnerships with Radio City, Big FM, and Aawaz.com Content from Radio City, Big FM, and Aawaz.com exclusively available on streaming platform
News Spotify invites record labels into Spotify For Artists, shutters Spotify Analytics Spotify Analytics users will be brought into Spotify for Artists over the coming months
News Katina Bynum named Executive Vice President of East Coast Labels, Urban at Universal Music Enterprises Bynum was previously Senior Vice President, Marketing at Cash Money/Young Money/Republic Records.