News Spotify inks global content deal with Indian Bollywood specialist T-Series T-Series' 160,000 song-catalog is now available on Spotify
News Warner/Chappell signs songwriter and producer Bernard Butler Butler co-wrote the 1993 UK No.1 debut album by English rock band Suede
News TIDAL ‘fake streams’: Criminal investigation underway over potential data fraud in Norway Norway's National Authority for Investigation and Prosecution of Economic and Environmental Crime opens investigation
News Spotify’s global monthly active users top 200m, up by 20m in the past six months "We're about two times bigger than anyone else."
News Universal signs Germany’s most successful streaming artist of last year, Capital Bra Artist hit No.1 in final chart week of last year
News Hip-hop producer Chris Barnett, aka CBMix, inks global deal with Downtown Music Publishing Barnett has worked with Lil Pump, Wiz Khalifa, Chance the Rapper, Juice WRLD, Kanye West and others
News Is Liberty Media about to buy into talent agency CAA? Report suggests that multi-media corporation is in discussions with Kanye West's rep
News Why fake Beyoncé albums on Spotify and Apple Music highlights streaming’s wider licensing troubles "This sort of thing happens all the time."
News Kobalt’s AWAL enters into year-long partnership with The Other Nashville Society TONS supports Nashville music professionals that fall outside the country music genre
News Concord Music signs Ivor Novello award winner Steve Robson Robson has sold in excess of 137 million records
News Craft Recordings launches Latin music division and expands staff Former Fania GM Bruce McIntosh has been hired as VP, Latin Catalog to run the division
News Vevo promotes Kevin McGurn to President of Sales and Distribution He was previously Chief Sales Officer since 2017
News SiriusXM had 34m paid subscribers at the end of 2018 The company added around 1.3 million net subscribers during the year
Analysis Blog News Why Apple’s profit warning could put music and video center stage at the company Apple's Services division is becoming increasingly important for the US corporation, says MIDiA's Mark Mulligan
News Andy Williams joins Audio Network as Global Commercial Director He was formerly Managing Director of Digital Content Services at ITN Productions
News Official: Guy Moot and Carianne Marshall to take charge of Warner/Chappell Music British executive Moot takes CEO job at world's third-biggest music publisher
News Au/Ra signs worldwide publishing deal with Warner/Chappell Her collaboration with DJ duo CamelPhat, Panic Room, has been streamed over 40m times
Analysis Daniel Ek wasn’t lying: streaming is becoming less dominated by mega-hits The number of plays attracted by the Top 50 audio streaming hits last year went DOWN