News Universal holds preliminary sale talks with Tencent – but is slow deal progress a danger sign? Bloomberg report says 'some private equity investors balk at the high price and slow pace of the deal'
News Antony Bebawi, Tom Gray, Crispin Hunt and Philip Pope appointed to PRS for Music Board Appointments were made by PRS members at the PRS AGM on May 21
News Music sampling startup Tracklib raises $1.7m from Sony and WndrCo The funding round is in preparation for a Series A funding later this year
News CD Baby partners with mastering service CloudBounce Algorithm-driven mastering service costs $4.90 per track
News Troy Carter’s Q&A hires Spotify and Facebook veterans Phillip Eubanks and Marc Hemeon Execs join as Head of Design and Chief Operating Officer, respectively
News Mushroom Music Publishing unveils company restructure under leadership of MD Linda Bosidis Restructure follows departure of MD Ian James
News Sofar Sounds raises $25m to help ‘scale the artist-fan connection globally’ Raise is being led by Battery Ventures and Union Square Ventures
News ‘Creativity is a muscle. It must be worked out. It must be pushed.’ Geffen boss Neil Jacobson on A&R, talking fast, the death of the album and much more
News Absolute Rights Management signs Jack Savoretti Artist scored his first No.1 on the UK’s Official Albums Chart in March
News Universal Music Publishing Group signs Logic to exclusive administration deal Logic has amassed billions of streams and sold over five million albums
News Beatport integrates LINK subscription service with Denon DJ hardware Integration to be available before the end of 2019
News Songtrust hires Lara Baker as Director Of Business Development, UK & Ireland Baker was previously Marketing & Events Director at AIM
News TikTok owner to launch Spotify rival – report App could launch as soon as fall 2019 "in a number of territories"
News Sony/ATV inks global content deal with music app developer Gismart The Gismart product portfolio has 17 million monthly active users
News Merck Mercuriadis’s Hipgnosis Songs Fund buys Jamie Scott catalog 'Jamie Scott has been the UK’s most consistent hitmaker of the last 10 years.'
News Pro Music Rights inks deal with Billboard-charting act OG Maco 'The industry should take note that artists will no longer have to stand idle while their royalties are tied up in an opaque, antiquated system.'
News After Spotify’s launch in India, how is its global expansion progressing? An in-depth look at how Spotify performed in Q1 in terms of users and subscribers around the world