News UMPG names Thomas Vidovic as MD, Germany and SVP, Austria & Switzerland; Diana Muñoz promoted to SVP, Finance and Administration Both promotions are effective immediately
News Uncategorized Anna Gregorek joins YMU Group as Commercial Director YMU Group manages Clean Bandit, Take That and many more
News Universal’s TuneCore rival, Spinnup, gets UK relaunch via UMOD partnership The platform will be branching out into educational, live and commercial ventures in 2019
News BMI claims ‘highest royalty distributions of any music rights org’ as it pays out $1.196bn to songwriters and publishers The US-based performance rights organization collected a record $1.283bn
News Spotify takes another step beyond music with hire of ex-CBS News President David Rhodes hired as original news content consultant
News ‘They lead the best A&R team in the industry’: David Gray and Walter Jones named Co-Heads, A&R at Universal Music Publishing Group Jody Gerson praises "accomplished A&R executives who have helped develop some of the brightest creative talent"
News Rodney Shealey named EVP at Def Jam Recordings, as Theda Sandiford steps up to SVP role “Rodney and Theda are seasoned, veteran leaders who have earned the respect of their colleagues throughout Def Jam, UMG, and the industry at large."
Analysis News Apple wanted to improve songwriter pay to $0.00091 per stream. Spotify and Google weren’t keen. Historical filings show why Spotify believes "lower royalty rates are critical" to the service's future
News Kobalt appoints Johan Land as Chief Product Officer At Waymo he led the launch of the first commercial self-driving cars service
News Nick Holmstén out as Spotify’s Head Of Music – but who’ll replace him? Could Jeremy Erlich or Marian Dicus step up into the role?
News UMPG appoints Stephen J. Dallas as SVP, Business & Legal Affairs and Digital Business Development He previously served as Vice President, Digital Legal Affairs & Business Development at Warner Chappell Music
News peermusic UK signs the Prodigy’s Maxim Reality to exclusive global publishing deal 'He’s a living legend, and he’s got many incredible chapters ahead of him.'
News Mike Walsh leaving Radio X after 18 years with Global Walsh was an early backer of breakout UK talent like The 1975, Florence + The Machine, Gerry Cinnamon, Hozier and The Courteeners
News Kobalt promotes Dominique Keegan to Vice President, Creative He was previously Senior Director, Creative
News Confirmed: Alibaba buys stake in NetEase Cloud Music in $700m deal in a separate deal, Alibaba has also acquired NetEase's import e-commerce platform Kaola for approximately $2 billion
News Alibaba to acquire 20% of NetEase Cloud Music, say sources (UPDATE) Major league deal will take on Tencent Music Entertainment, owner of QQ Music, Kuwo and KuGou
News The United States is about to become a $10bn recorded music market again – for the first time since 2007 US market now on course to generate over $1bn EVERY MONTH from recorded music in the first half of 2020
News Jin Jin and Ina Rasinger join Parlophone Records A&R team Rasinger joins as A&R Director on January 15 from Sony Music Germany; Jin Jin joins as Senior A&R Manager effective immediately