Analysis The Universal fire may be ‘heartbreaking’ – but don’t expect much impact on the music biz story of the year "It is not clear to us that the fire in the LA storage facility should have any impact on either the valuation of UMG or the sale process."
News Pete Tong named President of Three Six Zero Recordings Tong was one of the earliest supporters of TSZ management client, Calvin Harris
News Apple Music now has over 60m subscribers worldwide Rival Spotify topped 100m global subscribers at the end of Q1 this year
Analysis News Hip-hop and R&B loses market share of US streams – but so does Rock, Pop and Latin Genre still dominates streaming – but with less market share than in H1 2018
Analysis Audio streaming growth fell by 5% in the United States in the first half of 2019 Lil Nas X was the biggest track in H1 2019 – but he couldnt prevent a slight slowdown in the numbers
Interviews ‘We have to understand: without the song, there is no artist.’ Rodney Jerkins, aka Darkchild, joins MBW's World's Greatest Songwriters series
News Warner Chappell Music signs UK singer-songwriter Monique Lawz Lawz has also secured a deal with Warner Records
News Spotify Global Head of Advertising Brian Benedik to exit company Brian Benedik will step down in September after six years with the music streaming service
News Ethiopia Habtemariam: ‘The music business is changing all the time. If you’re not willing to innovate, you’re gonna be left in the dust.’ Motown's Ethiopia Habtemariam on hip-hop's explosion, ego in the music business – and Motown's new age
News Wendy Goldstein promoted to President, West Coast Creative at Republic Records Goldstein was previously Executive Vice President
News Songtrust has added over 55,000 songwriters in the past year Company registers an average of over 5,000 new songs every week
News Idris Elba signs global publishing deal with Universal Music Publishing Group UMPG will also sub-publish artists signed to Elba’s record label, 7Wallace
News Kobalt signs singer-songwriter Hayley Kiyoko Deal includes publishing administration, creative services and sync
News Partisan Records appoints Theresa Adebiyi as Creative Director Adebiyi joins the company from Ninja Tune
News Spotify’s online podcast and music studio Soundtrap launches new free tier Company was acquired by Spotify in 2017
Interviews How Songtradr is simplifying sync – and aiming to become the definitive B2B music licensing platform Songtradr founder and CEO, Paul Wiltshire, on the sync industry and his company's future
Interviews ‘I was raised to fight for the underdog.’ Corrie Christopher Martin – a senior figure at Paradigm Talent Agency – on her career and the industry today
Interviews ‘Music is significantly undervalued – people are thinking about it in the wrong way.’ Kobalt's Willard Ahdritz talks publishing, major record companies, and the true worth of the business today