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
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.'