News A year after trying to cut songwriters’ pay, Spotify boosts writer visibility with launch of pages feature New feature wins praise from writers – but bad vibes still lurk in the background
News Drake inks exclusive deal with social broadcasting platform Caffeine Caffeine will live stream and co-produce Rap Battles in collaboration with Battle Rap platform, URL
News Dutch rapper Dopebwoy teams with Warner Music to form Forever Lit Records Artist will initially release his own music on the label
Analysis Blog A Call to Arms: ‘Universal, Sony, Warner, Spotify, Apple, Amazon, YouTube… dig deep and help us.’ Ministry Of Sound Chairman Lohan Presencer calls on music's biggest companies to stump up for small venues
News France’s music publishing sector was worth over $450m in 2018 Total revenue was up 7% compared to 2017
News Apple poaches Warner exec Jeff Bronikowski for Global Head of Music Strategic Initiatives role The list of ex-Warner execs running music at digital services grows again
News Spotify to pay $250m for the Ringer, bringing its total podcast acquisition spend to $650m in the past 12 months The Ringer is the SPOT's latest acquisition following Parcast, Anchor and Gimlet media in 2019
Interviews ‘There’s nothing more exciting than finding a new idea…’ Raine Group partner Fred Davis talks big deals, new money and Daniel Ek
News Poo Bear inks global publishing deal with peermusic The multi-platinum songwriter/producer has sold over 500m records worldwide
News SoundCloud secures $75m investment from Pandora owner SiriusXM SiriusXM has purchased $75 million of securities for a minority investment
News IMPEL inks licensing deal with Amazon for its music streaming services in Europe IMPEL represents the digital music publishing rights of nearly 50 independent music publishers
News Spotify’s standalone Kids app rolled out in the UK and Australia Standalone app will eventually expand to all markets that have Premium Family
News Penske Media makes substantial equity investment in Music Business Worldwide, strengthening partnership "MBW has tapped into a top tier audience with quality well above and beyond offerings by competitors."
News UK rapper Dave renews global publishing deal with Warner Chappell Music Artist's album Psychodrama hit No.1 in the UK in March 2019
News Tencent, set to control 10% of Universal, also owns 9.1% of Spotify – but Daniel Ek has the final say on firm’s stake Spotify's founder and CEO has control of voting shares linked to Tencent's stake in his company
News Napster majority owner RealNetworks to get $10m investment from CEO Rob Glaser 'I am making this investment because I believe the company has a very promising future ahead of it'
News Music making platform Splice has paid out $25m to music creators Payouts made to musicians who distribute their sounds through Splice Sounds
News TikTok was downloaded over 104.7m times worldwide in January Figure represents a 46% increase from January 2019