News Kobalt Music Publishing promotes Amanda Samii to Vice President, Creative Samii joined Kobalt in 2011 as an assistant on the Creative team
News Merck Mercuriadis’s Hipgnosis Songs Fund acquires Dave Stewart catalog Company acquires 100% of Stewart’s copyright interest in his catalog
News Kobalt signs deal with Nina Nesbitt Admin deal includes publishing, administration, creative services and sync for future works
News Elliot Grainge’s 10K Projects hires Brittney King Brock as GM and President of Operations 10K works with artists including 6ix9ine, Trippie Redd, Lil Gnar and Austin Brown
News UK songwriters could be losing out on millions in streaming royalties each year, says new MMF report Report calls for urgent reform to the way in which repertoire is licensed to digital services
News Deezer’s free tier can be controlled with Amazon Alexa now, but not in the US and Japan Feature will roll out to Alexa-enabled devices over the next two weeks
News PledgeMusic fails to find buyer, heads for administration Co-founder Benji Rogers confirms demise of crowdfunding platform
News Create Music Group launches free app for songwriters to generate split agreements Create has been beta testing the app since January
News Warner boss Steve Cooper warns against ‘devaluation’ of music from freemium streaming services, and their ‘mismanaged’ family plans Rhetoric from major label group hardens in wake of India Spotify fallout
News Apple Music hires Google’s Lindsay Rothschild to lead Music Publishing Creative Services in North America Rothschild started in the new role on April 29
News RIAA promotes Morna Willens and Karen Silhol, hires Ken Doroshow Each position is effective immediately and reports to RIAA Chairman & CEO, Mitch Glazier
News Canada’s RE:SOUND and SOCAN launch Entandem JV to offer single public performance licence Organizations will continue to administer royalties separately for recorded music
News Cooking Vinyl makes string of new signings, including Swim Deep and Saint Raymond Also joining the label are Isobel Campbell, Sam Lee and Kerri Watt
News Pandora launches discounted plans for students and military Student Plan offers full Pandora Premium features for $4.99/month
News Universal names Calvin Wong CEO, Southeast Asia & SVP, Asia as major expands operations in territory Wong joins UMG from Warner Music Group, where he most recently held the position of President, Southeast Asia, Hong Kong & Korea and EVP, Marketing
News Warner’s quarterly recorded music revenues grow 22.4% to hit $933m Warner's streaming revenues pip Sony, generating $537m from Spotify et al
Analysis News The average salary of a Spotify employee hit $132,301 last year – more than double what it was in 2011 How the salaries at streaming music's market leader have changed over the past decade
News [PIAS] inks global digital distribution deal with Berliner Philharmoniker Recordings The Berlin Philharmonic's first new release with [PIAS] is a new recording of Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6