News Sony/ATV: We’ll share Tencent equity profits with our songwriters MBW revealed that publisher is an equity holder yesterday
News Sony Music strikes global JV deal with ex-Empire exec Jonathan Master 'Jonathan Master is a forward-thinking entrepreneur, talent developer and marketer with a strong vision for building artist careers'
News Sony/ATV owns a stake in Tencent Music Entertainment Universal-owned EMI Group and Sony-owned EMI Music Publishing also have stakes
News SoundCloud CEO Kerry Trainor: ‘We’re in a much clearer place now.’ SoundCloud CEO Kerry Trainor joins the MBW Podcast to discuss the platform's trajectory
News Universal Music UK posted £10.6m operating profit last year, spent £15.7m on acquisitions Revenues jumped 9% to more than £344.3m
Interviews ‘There is a grim determination required to make it in the music business.’ Jimmy Webb is the latest in our World's Greatest Songwriters series
News Official: Spotify’s Tuma Basa joins YouTube as Director of Urban Music Exec joined Spotify in 2015 and grew RapCaviar to more than 9m followers
News Spotify officially scraps ‘hateful conduct’ policy 'Across all genres, our role is not to regulate artists. Therefore, we are moving away from implementing a policy around artist conduct.'
News Emmy Lovell promoted to EVP of WEA Europe as Matt Crosswaite departs Second promotion in two years for rising star at WMG
News SoundCloud partners with programmatic ad-tech company AppNexus 'We’re eager to leverage the strength of AppNexus’ global multi-format open marketplace'
News Sean Stevenson named EVP and General Manager for Music at Entertainment One Stevenson will oversee marketing, sales, digital and general management of the Music business
News Apple Music to shake up charts – with another new global division New department under Oliver Schusser will 'enable effective, data-driven conversations with labels and artists'
News Live Nation will launch Lollapalooza in Stockholm next summer Event will be produced by Perry Farrell, WME, C3 Presents and Live Nation Sweden with subsidiary company Luger
News Live Nation acquires Texas promoter and festival producer ScoreMore Shows Austin-based company launched J. Cole's Dreamville Music Festival amongst hundreds of shows
News Apple launches global music publishing division, headed by Elena Segal Oliver Schusser makes major global move a month after taking charge of platform in California
News Louis Bloom promoted to President of Island Records UK, Natasha Mann and Olivia Nunn named co-MDs Alex Boateng upped to President of Urban, Steve Pitron granted wider role
Analysis Why Sony’s EMI buyout won’t make it the world’s biggest music company – but will make it the biggest publisher How Sony and Universal would have stacked up in the 12 months to end of March this year