News Spotify partners with Disney to launch Disney Hub featuring movie soundtracks and playlists Hub is available in the US, UK, Ireland, South Africa, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand
News Close to a third of Spotify’s 217m users are playing Ed Sheeran following release of his new album Over 69 million people have played the star's music in the past 28 days
News The birth of Sony Music Group creates a joined-up superpower at the heart of the music business MBW estimates that SMG will turn over more than $5bn each year, including Japan
News Google suspends secondary ticket seller Viagogo’s advertising Move follows UK’s Competition & Markets Authority's decision to prepare contempt of court proceedings against site
News Rob Stringer to run new Sony Music Group, housing publishing and records, from August 1 Sony/ATV Music Publishing Chairman and CEO Jon Platt will report to Stringer
News Warner Chappell Music Nashville signs global publishing deal with Mickey Guyton In 2016 she was nominated for the Academy of Country Music Award for New Female Vocalist
News Hank Forsyth named EVP, Strategy and Business Development at Warner Chappell Music He was most recently COO & CFO of Blackbird Production Partners
Interviews BeatStars: ‘Money doesn’t drive us. Our community drives us.’ Company founder Abe Batshon on Lil Nas X and how thousands of producers are making a living from his platform
Analysis News Apple is investing in original podcasts – and Spotify investors aren’t happy about it Daniel Ek's company has earmarked between $400m and $500m to spend on acquiring podcast content and tools this year
Analysis Blog Where are the missing song royalties? Annabella Coldrick, the CEO of the Music Managers’ Forum, has had enough. She wants to know where her members’ missing money is – and now...
News Bucks Music Group hires Robyn Kennedy as Senior Creative Sync & Licensing Manager Kennedy has worked at Kobalt, Music Sales and Reservoir Media
News LANDR closes $26m Series B funding round The round was led by the likes of Sony Innovation Fund, microphone manufacturer Shure and others
News AWAL inks global deal with R&B/Soul artist Snoh Aalegra Artist signs deal on upcoming LP, Ugh, those feels again
Analysis News Ed Sheeran’s No.6 Collaborations album isn’t a record-breaker – but it just cleared 100m Spotify streams in three days Album generated $500,000 for Sheeran and Atlantic Records on Spotify in its first three days of availability
News Alibaba-owned Xiami Music partners with HD audio firm MQA Xiami Music is China's first domestic MQA-enabled music service
News Warner Chappell Music signs British songwriter and producer Lostboy Lostboy produced the live version of Holler for the recent Spice Girls UK stadium tour
Interviews ‘The Orchard is a totally unique proposition in the music business.’ New York-based Colleen Theis is a key management figure at The Orchard – the Sony- owned distribution and services company working with BTS, Jorja Smith and more...