News Apple axes annual Apple Music Festival in London after 10 years The likes of Adele, Oasis and The Weeknd played annual showcase
News Kobalt signs Rudimental to worldwide publishing agreement UK band are signed to Warner/Atlantic for their recordings
News Hartwig Masuch: BMG is ‘outpacing our competitors… yet again’ CEO says company is improving on 'deficiencies of legacy players'
Analysis News The 2017 music streaming cash bonanza: How the major labels stack up The majors will generate $5bn from streaming this year - but who's king of the jungle?
News The question all songwriters should be asking Vivendi this week… Canal Plus is refusing to pay authors' rights in France. It's owned by the same company as UMG. Tricky.
Analysis News Universal Music Group streaming revenues soar 45% to top $1bn in H1 2017 Company flies through billion dollar barrier as total group sales exceed $3bn
News Warner acquires rock specialist label Artery Recordings Recordings catalogue sold by CEO Eric Rushing to major group
News BMG revenues top $250m in first half of 2017, up 28% year-on-year Bertelsmann-owned company on course to post more than $500m in sales this year
News Goldman Sachs: Universal is worth $23.5bn – and streaming revenues will jump 500%+ by 2030 New report suggests the good times are really about to roll for the music business
Analysis News Taylor Swift looks unlikely to break Ed Sheeran’s week-one Spotify record Shape Of You clocked up more than 26m streams in its opening four days
Blog Where is the accountability in a ‘label services’ deal? Label services deals offer a lot of freedom - but is a sustainable business model sometimes forgotten?
News Johnny Minardi joins Fueled By Ramen/Roadrunner as Senior Director of A&R Exec rejoins Fueled By Ramen after working for Equal Vision Records
News Live Nation expands into Brazil, hiring Alexandre Faria as Director and SVP, Talent Buying US company says it is meeting "growing demand for live events through Latin America"
News Hip-hop artists dominate USA’s Top Songwriters chart in first half of 2017 Metro Boomin, Kendrick Lamar and Drake all take Top 5 spots in six months to end of June
News Merlin has paid out $1bn to independent labels in less than 10 years Organization distributed $353m in the 12 months to end of March
News Taylor Swift breaks all-time day one Spotify record with Look What You Made Me Do Comeback single beats milestone set by Ed Sheeran's Shape Of You (one of them, anyway)