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
News NetEase Cloud Music completes $600m raise to take on Tencent Baidu, General Atlantic, Boyu Capital and others plough money into Tencent Music rival
News Simon Baker promoted to General Manager, European Operations of Universal Music Publishing Group Baker previously served as SVP, Finance and Operations for Europe
News Usher signs to Luke Mitzman’s 100 Management for worldwide representation Mitzman and 100 will work alongside Usher’s existing team, led by Julia Khan
News Spotify launches app for Apple Watch The app will be rolling out to Apple Watch users over the coming week
News Apple names The Orchard, Kontor and CD Baby ‘Preferred Plus’ music distributors as part of new program Preferred Plus distributors have access to advanced analytics and early access to Apple Music product features