News Jason Ellis promoted to Managing Director of Positiva Records Ellis will continue in his role as A&R Director for Virgin EMI Records
News Spotify now giving away 60 days of Premium in the UK, Australia for free Aggressive promotion hits key territories
Analysis Fortnite is a video game phenomenon. The music business could learn a lot from its success. Innovative pricing and content approaches are leading to massive revenues for Epic Games title
News APRA AMCOS posts record annual revenue of A$420.2 million Income generated from digital sources surpassed broadcast revenue for the first time, accounting for A$134.5m - nearly a third of all revenue.
News Downtown signs multi-territory music publishing deal with John Butler Downtown will administer more than 100 compositions as part of the deal
News Kelli Turner appointed President & COO of SESAC Turner previously served as Executive Vice President of Operations, Corporate Development and Chief Financial Officer
News Spotify acquires minority stake in DistroKid, enabling artists to upload to multiple services… from Spotify Streaming service takes passive position in aggregator which works with 250,000 artists
News UK’s Music Managers Forum teams up with YouTube to launch Accelerator Programme for Managers Successful applicants will receive grants of up to £15,000 and professional training
News Hearo.fm launches cryptocurrency that will be integrated with new music streaming service Tune.fm Hearo.fm's cryptocurrency is called the JAM token
News Music rights-holders lose $2.65bn annually because businesses are using personal streaming accounts The study was carried out by Nielsen Music
News Shamrock Capital buys Stargate publishing catalog, including Rihanna, Katy Perry hits Tor Hermansen and Mikkel Eriksen have worked with Rihanna for a decade
News The Orchard makes play for independent artists with new global division under Tim Pithouse Sony Music Australia exec moving to New York
News The Overtones to release 6th studio album via Absolute Worldwide deal sees Absolute bolster group’s own Gambling Man Records
Analysis Blog Asaii-gn of the Times: What Apple’s acquisition of Asaii means for the music business Instrumental founder Conrad Withey on some very interesting recent movements in his sector
News Production talent platform SoundBetter has paid $12M to its users in the last 18 months Songs produced on SoundBetter have hundreds of millions of streams on the major platforms
News Spotify’s Latin playlists head Rocío Guerrero quits streaming platform to join Warner Music Group Exec built ¡Viva Latino! and Baila Reggaeton over a seven-year tenure
News SACEM signs multi-territory digital licensing deal with Music Sales Group SACEM will manage the licensing, collection and distribution of royalties for nearly 120,000 works
News ERA: IFPI report ‘disenfranchises’ millions of physical music fans UK's Entertainment Retailers Association protests at IFPI report which excludes physical formats