News YouTube Music sponsors BRIT Awards, calling show a ‘lightning rod for artist successes’ 'We’ve been the international livestream partner for the previous five years and have delivered some incredible numbers.'
News Live music industry execs team up to launch the Face-value European Alliance for Ticketing (FEAT) Members include promoters for Adele, Arcade Fire, Björk, Bruce Springsteen, and Ed Sheeran
Interviews Ditto: ‘We have the same level setup as a major – but we offer better deals.’ Founder Lee Parsons says Ditto label services revenues grew 30% last year in new MBW interview
News Amazon Prime has 101 million US subscribers 62% of US Amazon customers are Prime members, says report
News How much money did Fortnite make last year? Free-to-play title generated more than any other game in history during 2018
News Caroline Diaz joins Interscope Records as Senior Director of A&R Exec leaves behind role at Sony's Columbia Records
News The number of smart speakers in US households grew by 78% in 2018 53 million people - or 21% of the population — now own at least one smart speaker
News Nicole Carbone-Rogers joins ASCAP as Senior Vice President and Head of Events Carbone-Rogers was previously Head of Experiential Marketing & Live Production at Pandora
News A2IM renews contract of CEO Richard James Burgess and hires Andrea Pagnanelli as General Manager Chase Varga has also been hired as A2IM’s new Marketing Manager
News Michele Nadelman joins Warner Bros. Records as CFO Nadelman joins WBR following 12 years at Concord Music
News BDi Music signs Æ MAK to exclusive worldwide publishing deal Æ MAK and collaborator Lullahush play Eurosonic 2019 on Friday January 18
News Offers made for HMV, says administrator The historic British retailer fell into administration in December
News Helaine S. Klasky joins SoundExchange as Chief Communications Officer Klasky was previously the chair of Burson-Marsteller's US public affairs and crisis practice
News Personalization startup Canopy hires Spotify Discover Weekly creator Matt Ogle and NYT journalist Bassey Etim Canopy uses on-device machine learning for content discovery
News Nick Raphael and Jo Charrington to keynote MUSEXPO 2019 Creative Summit MUSEXPO’s Creative Summit takes place March 24–27
News Apple Music subscriptions being given away to Verizon customers in the United States 'Free' subscriptions for customers on $50 or $60 monthly tariffs
News Netflix just raised its prices for the third time since Spotify launched in the USA Netflix's premium tier is $4 per month more expensive than it was in 2015