News German promoter FKP Scorpio hires Freddie de Wall as COO Wall joins from Heinrich & de Wall Artist and Music Management
News KKR invests $150m in Pandora – as streaming company posts $132m Q1 loss Richard Sarnoff takes a position on Pandora's board
News Streaming is now generating $100m a month at Warner, up 45% year-on-year Digital download now only brings in a third of streaming's revenue
News Big Machine hires Nicole Csabai as VP, Revenue & Sales Exec will report to Mike Rittberg in new role
News Rebecca Allen promoted to President, Decca Records Group UK Long-term Universal exec steps up to run division under David Joseph and Dickon Stainer
Analysis Why Warner did a deal with YouTube (and why it should think twice next time) On the conundrum faced by major labels as they throw sticks at Google
News Kobalt raises $75m in funding round led by Hearst Entertainment Hearst has previously invested in BuzzFeed, Complex and other digital properties
News Warner and YouTube sign new deal… ‘under very difficult circumstances’ Warner CEO Steve Cooper suggests the major had little choice thanks to safe harbor laws
News Joie Manda promoted to EVP of Interscope Geffen A&M Ex-Def Jam exec steps up after a run of hits at Universal label group
News Sas Metcalfe, Laurent Hubert and others promoted at Kobalt Music Group Jeannette Perez, Lonny Olinick and Marissa Mencher also step up as Richard Sanders departs
News Music licensing platform Songtradr expands service for artists and licensees Music licensing platform steps up its game
News Drake’s OVO Sound signs expanded deal with Warner Bros PARTYNEXTDOOR and others covered by distribution-plus agreement
News Sony’s The Orchard buys independent distributors finetunes and Phonofile Finetunes and Phonofile to become wholly owned subsidiaries of The Orchard
News Sony/ATV signs worldwide deal with Becky Hill New solo material will be released independently later this year
News The Damned sign to Search and Destroy ahead of eleventh album The upcoming album will be recorded this summer and is the follow up to 2008’s So, Who’s Paranoid?
News SoundCloud Go goes super-cheap in $1 for three months promotion Loss-making service gets aggressive on price with new promotion
News CI forms strategic alliance with Entertainment Intelligence CI's clients will be able to use Entertainment Intelligence for sales and usage data analysis