News Spotify appoints Sulinna Ong as Head of Music in the UK and Ireland "Sulinna joined us three months ago and in that time has shown great leadership, bringing 16 years’ experience pioneering global marketing strategies in the music industry, leading editorial teams as well as directly managing major artists.”
News Could Beyoncé’s Lion King album ‘open the gateway’ for African artists in the US? "Now that Beyoncé released a whole album, this will open the gateway."
News Beggars Group paid artists 44% of its Spotify share money; indie’s own revenues hit $100m in 2018 "After allowing for recoupment on advances, 44% [of the total Spotify proceeds were] paid out in cash."
News Vivendi appoints banks to help it sell up to 50% of Universal Music Group 'Several contacts have already been established with potential strategic partners,' says company
News Sony/ATV hires new boss in Nashville, as Rusty Gaston joins from THiS Music Gaston will succeed Troy Tomlinson who recently left for UMPG
News Streaming is having a huge year in France – led by Apple Music’s new ‘signing’, rap duo PNL Apple inked an ongoing exclusive partnership with duo in June
News Universal now generating over $10m a day from streaming, as it posts record half-year results Streaming made up 60.4% of Universal's recorded music revenues in the first half of 2019
News Former Spotify Global Head of Songwriter Relations Tiffany Kumar enters JV with Pulse Music Group Kumar's music agency Beat House has signed a JV and global co-publishing deal with Pulse Music Group
News Downtown names Cliff Audretch III Vice President of Creative Audretch will join Downtown’s Nashville-based Creative team, reporting to SVP Creative, Steve Markland
News Veteran artist manager Corey Smyth launches Blacksmith Recordings with Capitol Music Group & Motown Records Smyth has guided the careers of artists including Mos Def, Talib Kweli, De La Soul, Foxy Brown and others
News How Amazon Fire TV is helping Vevo grow its reach beyond YouTube Today, says Vevo, an average of 20% of its streams in the US take place on connected televisions
News Ditto Music to launch music publishing division "We’ll be signing and developing talent to build long term careers at Ditto."
News Meek Mill teams with Jay Z’s Roc Nation to launch new Dream Chasers record label Meek Mill will serve as the label's President
News Marshmello signs with WME for representation DJ and music producer continues to be managed by Moe Shalizi
News CTS Eventim to take over 48% of retail giant Fnac Darty’s ticketing business Transaction planned to close by the end of 2019
News YouTube to support artists from Nigeria via new emerging talent initiative Investment will enable artists to shoot videos, record music and get mentoring
News Vivendi to appoint banks for Universal stake sell-off on Thursday – report Vivendi is officially looking to sell off 50% of UMG
News Vevo hires Scott Anderson as SVP of Engineering & Product He has over 25 years' technology experience and joins from startup Conversa Health