News Post Malone tops Drake’s streaming record in the US beerbongs & bentleys tallied over 288,000 streaming equivalent album sales (SEAs)
News Stuart Clumpas named Chairman of Live Nation New Zealand New leadership team in market for global concerts giant
Analysis Blog ‘Big data is about to become a very big problem for the music industry.’ The co-founder of OCL suggests that Facebook's problems may soon spill over into the entertainment business
News Warner has sold $400m of Spotify stock – and says it will share money with artists and label partners Steve Cooper confirms that three-quarters of shares have been cashed in
News Warner recorded music revenues jump 15% to hit $791m in first quarter of 2018 Greatest Showman and Bruno Mars contribute to robust fiscal Q2 performance
News Sound City Korea applications open for 2018 This is the fourth year that Sound City will take artists to MU:CON and Zandari Festa with Arts Council England backing
News Scissor Sisters frontman Jake Shears to release debut solo album via Absolute in the UK Absolute will provide sales, marketing, distribution and more in support of the album
News Pandora lost $132m and 4.4m listeners in Q1 – but subscription revenues jumped 61% Company's subscription business turned over $104.67 in first three months of 2018
News Live Nation revenues hit $1.48bn in Q1, with a $41m net loss Operating loss narrows considerably in quarter to $6m
News Amazon Prime Video launches documentary series with Meek Mill Episodes detail rapper's fight for exoneration from the US criminal justice system
News Reservoir acquires nearly 500 songs from Hoagy Carmichael catalog Global deal includes nearly 500 songs
News BMG promotes Jasmina Zammit to lead Brazil repertoire operation Zammit will be responsible for establishing a local music publishing and recordings repertoire operation
Analysis News Spotify subscriber base reaches 75m, as firm’s revenues grow 37% in Q1 Company added an average of 1.3m new subscribers per month in Jan-March
News Live Nation acquires stake in Rock in Rio Deal expands live music giant's presence in South America
News Global music rights database pilot launched with top music companies Warner Music Group, Warner/Chappell, BMG and Global Music Rights on board
News Warner Music Group promotes Alex Kamins to Vice President, Global Digital Business Development role Exec most recently served as Senior Director, Digital Strategy & Business Development
News SoundCloud hires Nancy Hood to lead consumer business Former PayPal exec named Senior Vice President, Listener
News Vivendi to present ‘hypotheses’ on Universal Music Group IPO this month Findings to be presented at meeting on May 17th