News Official: Subscription streaming revenue growth is slowing down in the UK Is key global market showing very first signs of streaming saturation?
News Songtrust hires former Sony/ATV Director of A&R Richard Aurigema as Vice President of Copyright Aurigema will lead the Songtrust copyright and publishing operations teams
News Led Zeppelin backed by Justice Department in Stairway To Heaven copyright battle DOJ files amicus brief in support of Jimmy Page and Robert Plant
Interviews ‘If you’re really struggling with the B-sides, you probably shouldn’t bother…’ As home to The Cure for nearly two decades, Fiction Records had a profound influence on music around the world. Today, as it celebrates its 40th birthday, the label continues to champion leading alternative artists…
Interviews ‘New artists must build something authentic that will carry them through their career.’ Years & Years manager Martha Kinn and Sophie Bloggs who heads up the YM&U electronic music roster on how to approach artist management in 2019
News Spotify upgrades Family Plan features: could it be priming for a price rise? Upgrade is available now in Ireland with other markets to follow later this year
News Chance the Rapper hits 1 billion streams on SoundCloud Artist uploaded his first music to the platform eight years ago
News Bandzoogle to host artist sites for CD Baby’s HostBaby as service winds down HostBaby users will keep the same domain, inbox, and other assets
News Cinq Music signs record label Rancho Humilde to global distribution deal Rancho Humilde was founded by Jimmy Humilde, Roque Venegas and Jose Becerr
News Spotify veteran Will Hope exits to join YouTube as Head of Artist Marketing, EMEA Exec was previously Spotify's Head of Artist Marketing, UK & International
News Daniel Ek rubbishes iHeart boss Pittman’s claim that ‘73% of Spotify’s listening comes from just 3% of their audience’ iHeart now reaches 275 million Americans monthly – more than the top two closest broadcast radio competitors combined
News AWAL inks partnership with Brian Kelley And Tyler Hubbard’s newly-formed Round Here Records Country artist Canaan Smith signed as part of new partnership
News Dave Pichilingi to head up Modern Sky Entertainment in the US, role expanded to CEO UK & North America Exec will divide his time between Liverpool, London and Los Angeles
Analysis News Why, in a post-Tencent/Universal world, the three major music companies are worth nearly $90bn MBW estimates that Universal, Sony and Warner are now collectively worth just shy of $89bn
News Sony/ATV signs deal for Scott Weiland’s Stone Temple Pilots song catalog Weiland was the co-writer and frontman for the bands first six albums
News SoundCloud expands Creator Education Program with launch of SC101 tutorial series SC101 kicks off with a 9-part ‘how-to’ short video series with live events to come later this year
News Spotify to raise family subscription price by 13% in Scandinavia – report Spotify hiked prices by 10% in Norway last summer – and they haven't come back down
News Amazon Music’s subscriber base isn’t really growing faster than Spotify’s Spotify is increasing its subs base by over 20m people year-on-year – Amazon is dragging significantly behind