News Capitol Christian Music Group Chairman & CEO Peter York to retire after 50 years in the music business 'Peter is one of the most accomplished executives in the music business'
News Kobalt Music signs Savages’ Jehnny Beth to global publishing deal 'There's no question Jehnny Beth is an iconic singer, artist and songwriter'
News Beatchain launches platform that vows to ‘enable artists to take control of their careers’ Platform has already seen more than 40,000 artists sign up
News Taylor Swift signs exclusive global publishing deal with UMPG Universal Music Group already serves as Swift’s exclusive worldwide recorded music partner
News ‘A class act’: Danny Strick exits Sony/ATV after 15 years with publisher Departure is the latest big transformation of Sony/ATV under Jon Platt
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"