News Universal Music Group is making TV shows in tandem with Lionsgate 'First-look' agreement struck with Mad Men and Orange Is The New Black company
News Concord Music buys UK-based label Independiente Label controls copyrights by Travis, Embrace and more
News Norway’s Arctic Rights inks sub-publishing deals with BMG and Kassner Johan Husvik joins as Head of Sync at expanding company
Analysis News The music business’s biggest stories of the past week: Universal, Vivendi, Sony, Apple, Troy Carter Here's what caught our attention over the past seven days...
News Universal and Sony are now turning over more than $500k from streaming every hour And they're both generating over $1m an hour from all formats...
News Kobalt signs David Guetta to global publishing admin deal Deal includes back catalog including No.1 records
News Music Modernization Act back on track following music industry dispute SESAC dispute caused concern... but it's all back on track now
Interviews ‘I saw people I really trusted turn into monsters…’ The story of Kiesza, a streaming mega-hit... and what happens when things go wrong with a major label
News Warner Music Group buys youth media brand UPROXX to ‘influence culture’ Max Lousada swoops for Vice Media rival, adding to The Firepit and Songkick
News Universal Music Publishing Group inks global deal with Lionsgate Entertainment Universal boss Sir Lucian Grainge is a director at film and movie giant
News Deezer raises $185m as new investment values company at over $1bn Access and Orange come back to the table, alongside Dubai-based Rotana
News Fake artists still dominate Spotify ‘chill’ playlists. Now Universal is fighting back… with Apple Music. Nothing has changed on Ambient Chill, Sleep and Music For Concentration
News BASCA elects new board, moves to The Ministry in South London Crispin Hunt will remain Chair of British org for another three years
News Symphonic Distribution hires Eshan Shah Jahan as Head of Product in New York Exec was previously SVP, Product Engineering at The Orchard
Analysis News Apple Music has over 25m paying subscribers in North America (and more than Spotify) Apple and Spotify now have comfortably over 50m paying subs in the US and Canada between them
News UMPG promotes Mark Coltman to EVP, Information Technology Exec reports to UMPG’s CFO, Worldwide JW Beekman
News BMG Production Music acquires Deep East Music and Tele Music Deep East owns labels such as DEM, Zest and Scorched Score
Analysis News Three years ago, Pandora had more users than Spotify. Now it’s over 100m behind. Total active users on the US-based platform fell yet again to 71.4m in Q2