News Rich Christina joins Warner Chappell Music as Senior Vice President of A&R Exec was most recently Senior Vice President and Head of East Coast A&R at Sony/ATV
News Spotify recommends labels spend at least $5k on its new pop-up ads Targeted pop-up visual ads were announced in October
News A year after selling catalog, Stargate invests in Voisey app, calling it ‘the future of songwriting’ Partnership will see Stargate taking an active role with Voisey
News Sony Corp pairs artists, tech, gaming & movies in new campaign to highlight ‘all that the world of Sony has to offer’ The Sony Collaboration Series features experimental projects
News Sony Music names senior execs leading global podcasting expansion New York-based execs named as Emily Rasekh, Brittany Hall, Ryan Zack and Christy Mirabal
News peermusic re-signs Nashville songwriter Michael Tyler to exclusive deal He has also delivered cuts for the likes of Blake Shelton, Tyler Farr, LoCash and more
News J. Erving’s distribution & services firm Human Re Sources expands into the UK Amal Omari and Matt Ott appointed A&R and Vice President of Creator Services, respectively
News The Beatles merch finds new home at Sony Music’s The Thread Shop in North America First wave of merchandise will be introduced with a Beatles pop-up store in New York from December 11-22
News Tencent invests $2bn in ByteDance rival Kuaishou – report Short-form video firm is reportedly close to completing a $3 billion-pre-IPO funding round
News Electronic music giant ID&T appoints Edo van Duijn as Music Director Exec has over 20 years of experience in the industry
News German PRO GEMA buys majority stake in digital distributor Zebralution that ‘secures our future viability’ “By taking a stake in Zebralution, GEMA has made a targeted investment that secures its future viability."
News Spotify now has an actual Head of Hits, as Ned Monahan joins from Interscope Monahan appears to be essentially succeeding Mike Biggane at streaming firm
News Genius sues Google for ‘no less than $50m’, alleging ‘anticompetitive practices’ over lyrics Lawsuit was filed in New York on Tuesday (December 3)
News Spinal Tap’s UMG case might be over, but Vivendi is not off the hook yet Case against StudioCanal 'seeks hundreds of millions of dollars in compensatory and punitive damages'
Interviews VEVO 10: ‘When we talk about our audience to advertisers, it solves a problem for them’ Kevin McGurn on the evolution of monetizing music video
News Jeff Vaughn leaves APG to join Capitol Music Group, starting January 1 next year "Jeff has forged strong relationships within the artist community and has proven time and time again that he knows how to work with talent to create hit records."
News Warner Music Group ups Jon Glass to Head of Digital Legal Affairs He was with Sony Music Entertainment in Business & Legal Affairs, Global Digital Business
News AWAL signs worldwide recordings deal with girl in red Norwegian Singer-Songwriter inks deal for debut LP