News Songtradr hires 18-year Fox Broadcasting veteran Steve Celi Exec helped launch American Idol, X Factor, Glee and Empire
News Downtown steps up to sponsor The A&R Awards 2017 Independent publishing company backs Songwriter Of The Year category
News Reservoir buys 1,000 classic soul songs in latest acquisition move Copyrights from Willie Mitchell, Norman Harris and The Commodores included in deal
News BMG acquires independent French production house AXS Music Buyout signals launch of BMG Production Music France under Jérôme Keff
News Live Nation hires Chris Loll as COO of Media & Sponsorship division New York-based exec will report into Russell Wallach
News Apple Music is now playable via the new Apple Watch Special two hour keynote taking place in Cupertino tonight
News Music market intelligence startup Soundcharts raises $3.1m in Series A round Paris-based startup will open new offices in Los Angeles, New York and London this year
News Universal Music UK hires Stefan Demetriou to drive forward ‘visual A&R’ strategy David Joseph says Universal's investment in audiovisual content can't be matched elsewhere
News BMI payouts top $1bn for first time – but digital growth slows down Digital collections grow by just 7% as direct deals with Pandora alter org's outlook
News MBW launches Inspiring Women series, supported by Ingrooves Music Group First profile in new monthly series will be published later this week
News Modest! execs team with Blair McDonald to launch new publishing company Group say they offer "the widest range of creative services to our roster"
News Warner buys Spinnin’ Records in $100m+ deal It's been a close fought battle... but major pips its rivals to acquire Dutch dance label
Interviews ‘I think we’ve got by far and away the UK’s best A&R force’ Universal Publishing UK boss Mike McCormack's first interview since landing the job last year
News Downtown signs international partnership with Sub Pop Publishing Lucas van Slegtenhorst inks deal with Gareth Smith
Interviews ‘We’ve never disagreed over anything major. 99% of the time we think the same way.’ Stuart Camp on Ed Sheeran's career - and a truly unique manager-artist relationship
News Pat Carr leaves BMG UK three years after Infectious buyout Exec recently worked on campaigns by Rick Astley and Blink 182
News Facebook offers ‘hundreds of millions of dollars’ to labels and publishers for global licences Can it match the $553m paid out by video services last year?
News YouTube ripping site YouTube-MP3 shutting down after RIAA battle Over 60m people a month used site