News Hitco Entertainment inks joint venture with Pilgrim Media Group L.A Reid and Charles Goldstuck's company developing movie and TV-style music show
News Apple Music poaches the BBC’s leading hip-hop radio DJ, Charlie Sloth Sloth joins George Ergatoudis, Ryan Newman, Zane Lowe and other ex-Radio 1 tastemakers at Apple
News Warner’s X5 Music names Stefan Enberg as CEO, Johan Lagerlöf leaves company Enberg steps up from previous role as COO
News Downloads are crashing across the music industry. But at Beatport, they’re actually climbing. Why? Robb McDaniels talks MBW through the resurgence of one of dance music's biggest brands
News W Hotels launches its own record label, first single released by Amber Mark Marriott International’s W Hotels brand has launched a record label
News Rob Stringer talks Spotify, A&R, YouTube… and the possibility of a major label-owned streaming service Sony exec grilled by the BBC on modern music industry talking points
News ‘Jason is always true to himself and honest with his fans.’ Clarence Spalding and BMG's Zach Katz salute a major-league eighth studio album from Jason Aldean
News Elektra Music Group marks official launch by unveiling remainder of leadership team The Electra leadership team will report to label Co-Presidents, Mike Easterlin and Gregg Nadel
News SoundCloud teams with Pandora to rival Spotify for advertising sales in the US The two companies reach an ad audience of more than 100 million
News AWAL signs worldwide recordings deal with Beyoncé songwriter Kevin Garrett The deal includes global marketing, campaign coordination, synch licensing and global distribution
Analysis Tencent Music uses ‘tipping’ to rack up revenues. Why aren’t Western music streaming platforms doing the same? Cherie Hu on what the likes of Spotify can learn from China's biggest streaming music company
News SoundCloud signs new deal with Global’s DAX as exclusive UK sales partner DAX allows advertisers to target SoundCloud’s audience based on age, gender, location, preferred listening genre and device type
News Warner and Sony buy $200m of shares in Tencent Music Entertainment ahead of streaming company’s US IPO The two companies have banked more than $1bn from Spotify shares - what will TME bring their way?
News Tencent Music files for IPO in the United States, posts gross profit of $526m in H1 2018 F-1 filing hits SEC in the US, revealing latest financial stats for Chinese company
News Brandy Contreras named Senior Vice President of Strategic Operations for Caroline Ex-Twitter executive steps up Capitol Music Group
News Unilever launches its own music ‘label’ with Axe deodorant (but make sure you read the fine print) Copyright buyout will see collaborators denied any royalties from Lil Yachty collaboration
News All That Matters conference owner Branded acquired by Dentsu Aegis Network 'This is an exciting new chapter in Branded’s amazing 16-year journey.'
News Why Believe just bought 49% of one of France’s leading indie labels (and why it’s not worried about Spotify’s user uploads). Denis Ladegaillerie discusses his latest acquisition and Spotify's big move