News West One Music Group expands senior management team, launches custom music division in Los Angeles West One Music Group will also be opening a new recording facility in LA
News AEG Europe ups John Langford, Emma Bownes & Paul Reeve to key roles The appointments follow the news that Alex Hill will take over as President of AEG Europe from January 2019
Analysis News Universal is having a huge year – right on time for sale-hungry Vivendi UMG's current performance suggests that, with a strong Q4, it will turn over somewhere close to $7bn in the full year of 2018
News BMG signs global publishing deal with Juice WRLD Lucid Dreams hitmaker is signed to Interscope for his recording career
News Glassnote signs global alliance with Kobalt’s AWAL, leaves behind major label system 'It is truly a landmark day in the music industry and for the future of Glassnote.'
News Sony, Syco & 4th Floor Creative develop Little Mix Amazon Alexa skill The skill allows fans to virtually join Little Mix in the recording studio or backstage
News Merck Mercuriadis Fund buys 100% of Poo Bear catalog for undisclosed sum The catalog includes What Do You Mean?, which has sold over 14m copies
News Vivendi launches bank selection process to find buyer for stake in Universal Music Group Vivendi released its Q3 2018 results today
News FUGA inks deal with developer Riot Games to distribute entire music catalog of League of Legends This digital distribution deal includes the current release POP/STARS from virtual K-pop band K/DA
Analysis News Liberty Media: We’re ‘absolutely’ interested at looking into buying a stake in Universal Music Group The starting pistols go off on the biggest music rights deal of the year
News Combs Enterprises President Dia Simms to speak at MIDEM 2019 The respected executive heads up sean 'Diddy' Combs' global organisation
News TIDAL is now available on Amazon Echo TIDAL claims to be the first streaming service to use Amazon’s self-service Music Skill API
News Vevo unveils Artists to Watch 2019 list, partners with MBW The 20 acts picked by the video service for big things in 2019
News UK music tech firm Pirate Studios receives $20m investment from Talis Capital The investment will fund new locations across UK, US and Germany
News Sony completes $2.3bn deal to acquire EMI Music Publishing EMI now becomes a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sony
News Spotify launches global database for women working in music Spotify has teamed up with nonprofit SoundGirls to create the database
News RCA Records and music exec Brooklyn Johnny launch joint venture label District 18 Entertainment Booklyn Johnny has played a key role in the development of artists such as Kodak Black and Cardi B
Analysis One reason why Spotify’s deals with the major labels are balanced on a knife-edge Sony and Universal still own around 6% of Spotify – and won't want to see the company's value crumble