News UK Competition Authority prepares to launch contempt of court proceedings against Viagogo Secondary ticketing site has not fully complied with court order, says CMA
News Merlin inks data partner deal with music credit resource Jaxsta Firm's database contains more than 100 million credits across 25 million webpages
News Could Spotify be about to launch in Russia for $2.35 per month? Unverified screenshot indicates that platform is coming soon, and cheaper than Apple Music
Analysis After US slowdown, now audio streaming growth shrinks in the UK New BPI stats show decline in volume growth in world's third biggest market
News NMPA-backed Mechanical Licensing Collective (MLC) approved by US Copyright Office MLC is backed by the National Music Publishers’ Association, the Nashville Songwriters Association International and the Songwriters of North America.
Interviews Jody Gerson: ‘I have to tell my story authentically’ Jody Gerson has transformed Universal Music Publishing Group. But who is the woman behind the billion-dollar publisher?
Analysis Blog ‘Think Billie Eilish meets Lil Nas X, but more organic…’ Lucas Keller, founder of Milk + Honey, sounds off on record label A&R...
News UnitedMasters releases app for artists to distribute music and track earnings Artists can also submit tracks for placement with brands
Analysis Blog Why does the music industry still judge itself in weekly intervals? Are charts which appear every seven days really cut out for the modern era?
News Hayley Marchant joins fast-rising UK company Catalyst Management as GM 'Hayley's vast knowledge in marketing records with global rollouts is highly impressive and she is the perfect fit to help expand Catalyst in the right direction."
News Warner Music Group acquires Slovakian entertainment company Forza Music Forza owns the extensive catalog of OPUS, Slovakia’s former state-run record company
News Apple Music is signing exclusives again: major partnership deal inked with French rap stars PNL PNL sold over 113,000 equivalents of their latest album in a single week in April
News Vodafone-owned Vodacom’s My Muze app takes on Spotify in South Africa with 1m downloads Vodafone subsidiary Vodacom boasts over 40m customers
News When it comes to music distribution, artists should beware of the industry’s tourists Nick Gordon of Symphonic Distribution gives his view on those offering incredible deals to artists
News Because Music boss Emmanuel De Buretel calls for Spotify and rivals to adopt ‘user-centric’ licensing 'The so-called 'user centric' model, based on a user-based income distribution, would be more virtuous.'
News Alastair Kinross appointed Head of A&R at Insanity Records He joins from Sony/ATV publishing where he was Senior A&R Manager
News LyricFind receives Government funding to promote Canadian content via lyrics The two-year project supports the licensing, transcription and translation of Canadian artists and songwriters’ lyrics
News The Rolling Stone Charts officially launch in the United States Rolling Stone says its five charts "almost real-time on a daily basis"