Analysis News BMG revenues climbed 10% to $674m in 2019… with a 23% profit margin Company's revenues have grown more than 60% since 2015
Analysis Blog Finding Gratitude and Purpose in Crisis: ‘I can’t control what’s happening in the outside world – what I can control is my mindset…’ 300 Entertainment CEO, Kevin Liles, on his enforced break from the office... and being a dad
Analysis News Confirmed: Music streaming WAS down last week amid Coronavirus quarantine… but not on YouTube MBW takes a look at streaming across the globe, the US, Italy and the UK
News TikTok donates $10m to World Health Organization to fight COVID-19 Donation has been given to WHO's Solidarity Response Fund
News Spotify is testing a feature that recommends music to match the ‘moment and mood’ of a photo (report) Feature was spotted by Jane Manchun Wong
News Emergency Coronavirus fund for songwriters worth up to $43m launched by GEMA in Germany The €40m aid fund will be provided by GEMA in a two-stage program, PRO confirms
News The Weeknd enjoys major debut on Spotify with new album, racking up over 59m chart streams in a day Drake's Scorpion remains the record-holder for day one global streams with more than 132m
News Paradigm set to lay off over 100 staff – more than a seventh of its workforce – as Coronavirus live music lockdown hurts agencies Paradigm CEO Sam Gores hopes redundancies will be "temporary"
News Songtradr sacrifices fees, giving 100% of sync money to artists, for a full month, in response to COVID-19 woes "Artists have supported us through our journey. Now it’s time for us to step up and support them in a big way."
News SoundCloud slashes SoundCloud Pro Unlimited price, partners with Twitch to help creators during Coronavirus live show shutdown "We are all facing an unprecedented situation."
News Confirmed: The Weeknd’s After Hours surpassed a million pre-adds on Apple Music ahead of release "Let the music heal us during these dark times."
News Spotify launches podcast API for third-party developers APIs to 'empower developers to build unique experiences for listeners'
News Tekashi 6ix9ine sued for $2.2m by clothing brand Fashion Nova Rapper sued for breach of contract after he was paid a $225,000 advance
News The Weeknd smashes Apple Music record, heading towards 1m global pre-adds of new album After Hours already has 975,000 pre-adds – Apple's digital equivalent of traditional pre-orders
News Live Nation shares bounce back as Liberty Media pays off $130m company loan News appears to have been interpreted positively by the markets
News Amazon ‘still very much business as usual’ for record labels in the UK, says distributor Proper Music "I think music finds itself further up the pecking order than maybe people thought it would."
Analysis News Yes, global Spotify chart streams are down this week. No, that doesn’t mean Coronavirus is hurting the record industry. Worldwide streams in Spotify's Top 200 have fallen 11%. But that's no reason for labels to worry...
News Sound City 2020 moves to September, launches live streaming platform to financially support artists 'Guesthouse' platform will carry an introductory £4.99 subscription price