News Songtrust promotes Co-Founder Joe Conyers III to Chief Strategy Officer He has been General Manager for the last eight years
News Pulse Music Group renews multi-year deal with President and Head of Creative Maria Egan Egan oversees the company’s creative strategy and runs its powerhouse A&R team
News UK Government tells music fans ‘not to buy or sell tickets’ via Viagogo Warning made as part of a new report on the country's live music industry
News Naz Idelji joins JEM Music Group as Managing Director Idelji will also oversee TS5 Presents, the JV between Colin Lester and Craig David
News Absolute named amongst handful of Spotify’s recommended distributors CD Baby, DistroKid and The Orchard also named as preferred and recommended aggregators
News Anghami ventures into podcasts, inks audio content partnerships with leading publishers in MENA Over 250 shows have already been introduced
News Sony Music hires IMAX executive Amanda Collins as EVP and Global Head of Corporate Communications Collins was previously Global Head of Communications for IMAX Corporation and IMAX China
News Digital revenues in France overtook physical for the first time ever in 2018 Digital now accounts for 57% of the market
News IMPALA, PRS for Music and others attack YouTube for ‘propagation of misinformation’ ahead of Article 13 vote 'YouTube enabled the propagation of misinformation - such as the claims that Article 13 would lead to the shutting down of YouTube channels.'
Analysis News Big question: Could Google buy Universal Music Group? Google tried to buy 50% of Sony/ATV a few years ago. Could it come again for a rightsholder?
News Spotify vs. songwriters: Sony/ATV’s Martin Bandier and Warner/Chappell’s Carianne Marshall urge composers to fight royalty rate challenge "I am incredibly disappointed that Spotify and the other companies have chosen to attack songwriters by appealing the long-overdue rate increases."
Interviews News How Jason Aldean’s Rearview Town racked up over half a billion streams – and helped change country music’s digital profile How the likes of Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music and YouTube boosted the country's superstar worldwide
News US music advocacy groups call for a ‘more effective system of digital attribution and credits’ Artist Rights Alliance, SAG-AFTRA, RIAA and A2IM issue joint statement
News Moby releases new album exclusively on Calm app – with potential audience of 45m people Album will be available exclusively on Calm Music for first 30 days
News Apple blasts Spotify for ‘suing’ songwriters: ‘A damaging step backwards for the music industry’ 'Underneath the rhetoric, Spotify’s aim is to make more money off others’ work.'
News Warner Music licenses Africa’s largest music streaming service, Boomplay Boomplay has more than 42 million users
News A2IM CEO takes aim at ‘corporations’ for ‘a nuclear fury of anti-copyright pressure’ over Article 13 Richard James Burgess weighs in on Copyright Directive debate