News Sony/ATV extends pan-European digital licencing deal with SOLAR SOLAR is a jointly-owned subsidiary of PRS for Music and GEMA
Analysis Sony Music revenues up 5.8% so far this year, sales dipped slightly in last quarter Streaming revenues shoot up 26% in the first nine months of 2018
News Downtown supports The A&R Awards 2018, backing Songwriter Of The Year category 'Downtown is extremely proud to sponsor the Songwriter Award for the third consecutive year.'
News Spotify stock hits new low on NYSE, as market cap value dips under $26bn Firm's Q3 results are due out on Thursday (November 1)
Interviews ‘Never in my wildest dreams did I think I would ever make a living out of music.’ Clarence Spalding on his career, his life – and managing the biggest country artists on earth
News Columbia Records ups Jay Schumer to Senior Vice President of Marketing Schumer will be based in New York and reports to Columbia Records General Manager Jenifer Mallory
News Two of Canada’s leading indie distributors, Select and Outside Music, are merging Select and Outside will maintain independent offices in Montreal and Toronto, respectively
News United Talent Agency signs global deal with Pitbull Pitbull has landed multiple No.1 hits in over 15 countries
News SoundCloud amends ‘outdated’ Premier contract following criticism SoundCloud has removed the 'covenant not to sue' language from the contract
Analysis Spotify ‘doing a Netflix’: is Daniel Ek’s platform already too big for the labels to stop it? Mark Mulligan on why the major rights-holders may be facing a 'prisoner's dilemma'
News YouTube’s new king? India’s T-Series could soon overtake PewDiePie to become the world’s biggest channel T-Series currently has 67.6m subscribers; PewDiePie has just over 68m
News Johnny Hallyday album shatters records, selling more week-one units in France than Drake’s Scorpion did in the USA MBW expects that the album generated more than $14m in a single week
News Sony $2.3bn takeover of EMI Music Publishing gets green light in Europe Deal takes Sony's ownership of publishing copyrights above 4m
News Astralwerks jumps into the world of video games with Twitch star Ninja – and his tens of millions of followers 'Partnering with Ninja and taking our first step into the gaming world simultaneously as a label is an extremely exciting proposition.'
News Downtown signs Theophilus London to his first music publishing deal Deal with Kanye West collaborator includes catalog
News Universal signs K-pop girl band to Interscope – can they repeat BTS success? The South Korean quartet is currently the highest-charting female K-pop act in Billboard Hot 100 history
News Forget Drake. The music sales story of the year could soon be Johnny Hallyday. Mon Pays C'est L'amour shifted more than 630,000 copies in three days
Analysis A&R ‘Moneyball’ is hotter than ever. But will it actually improve the music business? After Apple's acqui-hire of Asaii, what's next for AI-driven artist discovery?