Interviews UROK’s Roy and Sam Eldridge on Liam Gallagher, Plan B, Jess Glynne… and each other Father and son team Roy and Sam Eldridge discuss artist development and the state of the record industry
Analysis News How Taylor Swift’s big demand will affect $280m+ of Universal’s money Why the pop icon is also, in one regard, a punk-rock rebel
News Mexico City has more Spotify listeners than London, New York or Paris Mexico City became Spotify’s first-ever Latin American market in 2013
News Record industry attacks YouTube for ‘carpet-bombing propaganda’ over Article 13 Labels respond to latest Lyor Cohen op/ed, which claims artists will be paid less after Article 13
News Sound Royalties and AdRev team up to pay advances to YouTube creators Content creators will be able to access advances based on their earnings from YouTube and other platforms
News Lyor Cohen: Article 13 could mean ‘less money for artists and songwriters on YouTube’ 'Article 13 would [open up] YouTube... to unmitigated liability and such a large financial risk, we would be forced to block huge amounts of video.'
News Steve Sayer appointed Vice President & General Manager at The O2 in London Sayer joined The O2 in 2014 as Commercial Director and was previously Operations Director for Manchester City Football Club
News Universal Music Publishing Group signs global administration deal with composer George Fenton Fenton's extensive works include music credits for Gandhi, BBC’s Planet Earth, Groundhog Day, Cry Freedom and more
News Songwriter & producer Scott English dies aged 81 English wrote Mandy, which became a No.1 hit for Barry Manilow in 1974
News Anghami partners with ACRCloud to bring Radar music recognition feature to Middle East It’s done so ahead of Apple fully integrating Shazam into its service
News SiriusXM’s buyout of Pandora granted approval in Europe The deal was subject to approvals under the competition laws of Germany and Austria
Analysis Why did Warner just spend $180m to buy a merchandising company? Merch is becoming a huge, and vital, component of artist careers
News Pandora Premium can now be streamed through Amazon Echo devices The company published a blog post announcing the news 'just in time for the holidays'
News Warner/Chappell poaches Sony exec Mary Nuñez for key latin sync role Nuñez was previously Vice President of Music Licensing & Creative Services for Sony Music Entertainment Latin Iberia
News iHeartMedia to acquire audio advertising trade platform Jelli Jelli is programmatic platform for buying and selling audio advertising
News Universal will ignore artists’ unrecouped balances when it pays out Spotify share money… thanks to Taylor Swift 'They have generously agreed to this, at what they believe will be much better terms than paid out previously by other major labels.'
News Taylor Swift signs new global recordings deal with Universal Music Group Direct agreement signed for the world