News Shamrock Capital buys Stargate publishing catalog, including Rihanna, Katy Perry hits Tor Hermansen and Mikkel Eriksen have worked with Rihanna for a decade
News The Orchard makes play for independent artists with new global division under Tim Pithouse Sony Music Australia exec moving to New York
News The Overtones to release 6th studio album via Absolute Worldwide deal sees Absolute bolster group’s own Gambling Man Records
Analysis Blog Asaii-gn of the Times: What Apple’s acquisition of Asaii means for the music business Instrumental founder Conrad Withey on some very interesting recent movements in his sector
News Production talent platform SoundBetter has paid $12M to its users in the last 18 months Songs produced on SoundBetter have hundreds of millions of streams on the major platforms
News Spotify’s Latin playlists head Rocío Guerrero quits streaming platform to join Warner Music Group Exec built ¡Viva Latino! and Baila Reggaeton over a seven-year tenure
News SACEM signs multi-territory digital licensing deal with Music Sales Group SACEM will manage the licensing, collection and distribution of royalties for nearly 120,000 works
News ERA: IFPI report ‘disenfranchises’ millions of physical music fans UK's Entertainment Retailers Association protests at IFPI report which excludes physical formats
News Ollie Hodge named Director of A&R at Polydor in London Hodge joins Polydor from Columbia Records where he was Senior A&R Manager.
News Universal signs multi-year direct licensing agreement with Mixcloud The global agreement includes payment for previous use of UMG’s music
News Music Business Worldwide’s site has been viewed over 5m times so far this year A record month in September, as MBW site attracts nearly 717,000 page views
News BMG buys World Circuit Records Deal includes Grammy award-winning Buena Vista Social Club (BVSC) album
News Apple buys music analytics platform Asaii for ‘under $100m’ Acquisition of California-based app comes just three weeks after Apple completed Shazam deal
News ‘He’s the Obama of the music industry’: Jay-Z pays tribute as Jon Platt collects Spirit Of Life Award Shawn Carter and Beyoncé lead tributes to outgoing Warner/Chappell boss
News AWAL Promotes Matt Riley to Vice President, A&R Riley will be based in London and will oversee AWAL’s UK A&R team
Interviews ‘Creativity and authenticity is what’s going to continue driving our business.’ Carolyn Williams, EVP of Marketing at RCA Music Group, discusses her biggest lessons learned and changing role of marketing
News NFL partner On Location Experiences buys VIP concert firm Future Beat On Location Experiences counts Imagine Dragons, Metallica and the NFL among its partners
News 5 Seconds of Summer rule US Top 40 radio in ‘huge achievement’ for UK-signed act "No-one has worked harder this year, or indeed the past five years, than 5 Seconds of Summer."