News Spotify fake artists return – but who’s faking plays within user accounts? MBW reveals that plays were being falsely attributed to users as far back as March last year
News Kanye West sues Universal, EMI Music Publishing in apparent bid to exit deals Is artist attempting to get his rights back from major music companies?
Analysis News These might be the 5 most powerful people in the music business – despite none of them working in the music business Who are the bosses of the music industry's bosses?
News Spirit has new owner, secures $350m recap, David Renzer exits Jon Singer will become Chairman of Spirit Music Group
News Songwriter Corey Hart signs exclusive global publishing admin deal with peermusic The deal is a joint signing between peermusic’s Canadian and American offices
News Cooking Vinyl Publishing signs UK songwriter Matty Benbrook Benbrook has collaborated with a long list of artists including Paolo Nutini, James Morrison and Lana Del Rey
Interviews News Article 13: Music industry optimistic that re-drafted text can still crush YouTube ‘Value Gap’ John Phelan, Director General of publishers' global body the ICMP, weighs in on the status of the Copyright Directive
News ‘This is becoming the Fyre Fest of crowdfunding’: Anger grows as PledgeMusic owns up to late payments 'We acknowledge that many artists have and continue to experience payment delays.'
News R. Kelly may have been ‘dropped’ – but he’s still making nice money from streaming The singer/songwriter's reputation is in tatters – but he's still coining it in from his back catalog
News Universal’s investment in Pluto TV pays off as startup sells to Viacom for $340m Major invested in Pluto in November 2014, alongside Nas's investment vehicle
News Royalty Exchange passes $50 million in transactions since 2016 Figure was achieved through 535 separate transactions, says company
News ADA Worldwide promotes David McGilvray to Senior Vice President, Radio Promotion Alisa Applegate, Rick Betemit, and Mary Taggart have also joined the ADA Promotion team
News Rumblefish extends 7digital partnership ‘to help music streaming services to launch and expand’ 7digital has been a Rumblefish client since 2012
News Logic manager Chris Zarou launches Sony Music imprint, Visionary Records Zarou is the founder and CEO of artist management company Visionary Music Group
News SoundCloud’s Chief Product Officer Eric Wahlforss has resigned Wahlforss will take up an advisory role on March 1
News MelodyVR inks content creation and distribution deal with AWAL The deal will see MelodyVR distribute live and pre-recorded VR content created with AWAL artists
News Napster has a new majority owner, as RealNetworks doubles its stake in a deal worth up to $40 million RealNetworks has doubled its previous stake of around 42% to approximately 84%