News Recording Academy names 16 people who will make up its diversity ‘task force’ Michele Anthony, Common, Julie Swidler and more join Tina Chen on panel
Interviews Eliah Seton on indie artists, big money deals and the future of the music business ADA boss Eliah Seton on his rise through the music industry, and the future for distribution and services companies
News Symphonic Distribution makes senior hires in New York and Los Angeles Nick Gordon joins from The Orchard alongside former Universal Music exec Jaime Feldman
News Rogers & Cowan acquires ITB Worldwide ITB will now join Octagon Sports and Entertainment Network of agencies
News BMG signs Dido ahead of fifth album release British artist’s previous long-standing record deal was with Sony Music
News Pulse Music Group acquires music supervision firm Hitcher Hitcher founder Joe Rangel named Head of Sync, Creative & Licensing at Pulse Music Group
News TIDAL accused of deliberately faking Kanye West and Beyoncé streaming numbers Norwegian newspaper Dagens Næringsliv spills jaw-dropping revelations
Analysis Do the major labels know something about Spotify that Wall Street doesn’t? The majors have cashed in $1bn in shares despite optimism from Wall Street. Why?
News Spotify to offer audio books after striking deal for 33 1/3 series Short books about popular albums will be made available on the streaming service
News Sony/ATV completes entire year at No.1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 Company’s uninterrupted run at the top of the chart culminates with Drake achieving a fourth week at No.1
News SOCAN signs admin deal with Dutch Caribbean PRO Ducapro Ducapro to provide performance right administration services for music played on Dutch Caribbean Island radio stations
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