News Festicket secures $4.6m funding from Edge Investments Funding will support Festicket’s entrance into new markets
News CISAC to carry out major upgrade to international musical work identifier system CISAC launches major project to upgrade the international musical work identifier
News UK music retailer HMV bought by Sunrise Records owner Doug Putman The deal will see 100 stores taken over
News West One Music Group expands into Australia with Sydney office Dan Moonie will head up the Australian operation as Senior Music Licensing Consultant
News EMPIRE hires Amir Abbassy in Content role and Peter Kadin as VP of Marketing Company will soon release music from Iggy Azalea and Robin Thicke
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