News Kobalt Capital raises $600m fund to spend on buying music copyrights Kobalt-managed fund has previously acquired Lindsey Buckingham, B-52's and Steve Winwood songs
News Vevo unveils first Artists To Watch for 2018 Yxng Bane named first entrant on list of 20, to be revealed over the next 10 days
News Warner/Chappell storms to Q3 No.1 market share spot in US Major takes 22.99% market share in three months to end of September
News Max Lousada pays tribute to ‘friend, colleague and mentor’ Korda Marshall at A&R Awards 2017 'Korda showed me you could dream big without selling out'
News The A&R Awards 2017: Steve Mac, Young Turks and Atlantic win big Reservoir, Universal Music Publishing, Guv Singh and more collected gongs in London last night
News Reservoir signs electronic duo DVBBS to global deal Deal includes global rights to compositions in DVBBS' catalogue, plus future works
News Warner Music Thailand hires Karl Kongkham as Managing Director Warner Music Thailand is home to local artists including Boom Boom Cash, Carabao and My Life As Ali Thomas
Interviews Willard Ahdritz: ‘We are building a company for the future of the music business’ The Kobalt boss on his optimism for the future of the record business
Interviews ‘We have shown that great records from anywhere in the world can become hits’ Universal Music Latin Entertainment boss Jesús López on Despacito and the worldwide explosion of Latin Music
News Warner relaunches Asylum under Kenny Weagly, Dante Ross to lead A&R Company will be run separately from UK label
Analysis News Sony Music streaming revenues top $1bn in first nine months of 2017 Streaming accounted for 49% of all sales in quarter ending September 2017
News Big Machine names Andrew Thoen Northeast Director of Promotion and Marketing Exec will spearhead relationships in the Northeast area between country radio and BMLG's artist roster
Interviews News How Mika sold 10m albums… then reinvented himself as an award-winning TV star The musician is a televised superstar in Italy - and has some things to say about Sir Lucian Grainge
News Riptide Music Group absorbs $4m investment from Mark Ross Ross has also been named a partner of the company
News What Morrissey really thinks of Korda Marshall (and other amazing tributes) Matt Bellamy, alt-J, Max Lousada, Seymour Stein and more pay tribute to an A&R Icon
News Sony label Music For Nations signs Blanket and Bury Tomorrow in the UK MFN was re-established under Julie Weir last year at major label
News Warner/Chappell promotes Eric Mackay to lead global digital strategy British exec becomes EVP, Global Digital Strategy
News SoundCloud CFO Holly Lim exits, joins streaming audio service TuneIn Exec joined SoundCloud little over a year ago