News Ingrooves expands into Japan, names industry veteran Ryukatsu Son as Managing Director for market Exec joins from Amazon Japan, where he was Head of Licensing, Digital Music
Analysis Daniel Ek talks paid-for promotion, podcasts and Spotify’s mission to become ‘the world’s No.1 audio platform’ What does Spotify's CEO have to say on key issues facing the company in 2020?
News Tencent Music antitrust investigation paused in China (report) Investigation was put on hold in January
News Denmark-based tech startup WARM raises €1.25m; adds Sony as an investor Firm uses audio fingerprinting and music recognition technology to detect and identify when songs are played on radio
News HAAWK buys stock music licensing platform Keyframe Audio; launches rights management portal, Identifyy Keyframe Audio has a catalog of 50,000 copyright-free music tracks
News Spotify now has 124m Premium subscribers, growing by over 3m per month The average paying Spotify subscriber across the world (ARPU) in Q4 2019 paid €4.65 per month
News SiriusXM’s annual revenues were up 35% in 2019, but Pandora’s Monthly Active Users fell by nearly 6m Pandora had 63.5m MAUs at the end of 2019
News Apple Music teams up with Genius to co-produce new episodes of ‘Verified’ lyric explainer video series New episodes will premiere exclusively on Apple Music
News UK hip-hop stars Krept and Konan ink global publishing deal with Concord Their new album Revenge Is Sweet recently entered the UK Album chart at No.5
News YouTube is generating over $1.5bn per month from ads – and boasts over 20m paying music subscribers worldwide 'In the ad supported proportion of YouTube, we pay out a majority of revenues to our creators.'
Blog Lifting the lid on The Ivors – get your submission in before February 6 Anyone can submit the qualifying entry – managers, publishers and the songwriters and composers themselves
News Over a third of professional songwriters in the UK say they have been ‘subject to full buyouts or work for hire commissions’ An additional 41% of UK creators say "they had been required to give away more of their mechanical rights than they wanted"
Analysis News Sony Music revenues grew by over $250m in calendar 2019, topping $4bn Fine Line by Harry Styles was Sony Music's biggest seller in calendar Q4 last year
News Sony Music forms global podcast venture with UK audio producer Somethin’ Else Companies will pursue global podcasting opportunities including in the US where Somethin’ Else has opened an office in New York
News Songtradr-owned Big Sync Music expands into Australia, New Zealand, France & Germany Big Sync’s new operations will be headed up by Country Managers Michael Szumowski, Pedro Anacker and Nicolas Farcy
News YouTube Music and the UK’s MMF unveil participants on the 2020 Accelerator Programme for Music Managers Participants are drawn from across the UK and represent 66 artists
News Uber’s former Head of Music Zach Zimmerman launches artist management firm, ZTZ Entertainment Roster includes dance music producer/DJ David Dann, pop singer-songwriter Chloe Gilligan and electronic musician/producer Rocket Pengwin