News Primary Wave signs multi-million dollar deal to rep Paul Anka catalog The deal covers Anka's controlled publishing, his master rights and his name and likeness
News Music Modernization Act: Labels and publishers back NMPA’s bid to run new mechanical rights society Universal, Sony and Warner, as well as indies, support publisher org's application
Analysis News Over 2.3m people visited MBW last year, clocking up more than 6.5m page views January was a record month, with over 700,000 impressions on the MBW site
News Mixcloud hires Daniel Petruzzi as VP of Partnerships Petruzzi will drive the London-born company’s US expansion
Analysis Blog ‘Independent’ music continues to be romanticized. But what does it really mean? Matt Brinkworth of Omnian Music Group reflects on the true meaning of 'indie' in 2019
News Secretly Distribution leaves physical Warner/ADA deal to sign with AMPED Artists signed to Secretly Distribution labels include Sharon Van Etten, Bon Iver, Sufjan Stevens, Angel Olsen and Tycho
News Marshmello just played a live set to 10m people in video game Fortnite – and that wasn’t even the most interesting move he made this weekend DJ's new single, performed in Hindi, is out now, featuring Pritam
Analysis English-language music is losing its stranglehold on global pop charts – and YouTube is driving the change When YouTube’s charts say what's popular, you better believe it. And, right now, "what's popular" applies increasingly less to U.S. pop stars.
News Spotify in talks to buy podcasting company Gimlet Media – reports Gimlet creates podcasts such as Startup, Crimetown and The Pitch
News PledgeMusic in discussions with ‘several interested parties’ over acquisition or partnership "These conversations, if successful, would lead to a transaction which would allow us to meet all of our outstanding obligations."
News SiriusXM completes $3.5bn acquisition of Pandora SiriusXM says it is now "the world's largest audio entertainment company"
News Sony Music streaming revenues topped $2bn in 2018, as total sales hit $3.9bn Sony's overall annual recorded music revenues in 2018 grew by 1.7%
News YouTube promotes Carletta Higginson to Global Head of Music Publishing Exec has spent five years at Google/YouTube
News Spotify didn’t launch in India today after all… and still doesn’t have major label approval to do so Spotify's proposed average ad-funded rate in India will sit at less than $0.0005 per-play
News Elsa Vivero upped to EVP of Global Digital Account Management at Warner Music Group’s WEA Vivero was previously Senior Vice President, Global Digital Account Management at WEA
News Spotify sued by IP company which claims streamer infringed Yahoo! patents Complaint accuses Spotify of infringing the rights of four patents, all of which were born at Yahoo!
News Universal parent Vivendi buys book publishing company Editis in $1bn deal "This acquisition is a logical step in the building of a large content, media and communications group. It also marks the return of this French publishing powerhouse to a European group with a global reach."
News Rhapsody makes two senior hires and ‘formally’ launches Powered by Napster service Angel Gambino joins as Chief Commercial Officer and John Law as VP, Head of Product