News Kobalt hires Alison Donald as Head of Creative, UK Former Columbia Records exec teams with fellow British A&R specialist Sas Metcalfe
News Concord launches Craft Recordings as its official reissue label Concord is home to more than 10,000 catalogue masters
News X-ray Touring signs JV deal with Paradigm and Yucaipa X-ray represents the likes of Coldplay, Chance The Rapper and Green Day
News Spotify is developing its own hardware – inspired by Amazon’s Echo The Pebble Watch and Snap's Spectacles both cited by streaming company in new job ad
Interviews Pascal Nègre: ‘The music business used to be major vs. indie. Now it’s the quick vs. the slow.’ Pascal Negre talks major labels, his new management venture - and his departure from Universal Music Group
News PRS payouts grew 11% in 2016 – but costs rose 14.6% to top £80m Costs grew faster on percentage basis than the increase in payouts
News iHeartMedia admits it could collapse this year under $20bn debt burden "There is substantial doubt as to our ability to continue as a going concern"
Interviews ‘First we’re gonna take London. Then we’re gonna take the world’ Quality Control founders Coach K and Pee talk Migos, Lil Yachty, Stefflon Don - and global domination
News Google inks Samsung deal to become ‘default music player’ on new S8 phones Google Play Music will be pre-installed on fancy new tech
News Horus Music wins Queen’s Award for Enterprise For International Trade CEO Nick Dunn pays tribute to 'hard work and dedication of the team'
Interviews Steve Mac: ‘There are no rules to pop music now. It just has to be of great quality.’ British pop songwriter extraordinaire Steve Mac talks Shape Of You, being No.1 and much more
News Rostrum Records promotes Nicole Plantin to VP, A&R Previously, Plantin was Director, Writer Publisher Relations at BMI in Los Angeles
News Now indie labels can window albums on Spotify Premium thanks to Merlin deal Like Universal deal, new agreement includes ability to 'window' album releases
News Former Pandora and Sirius exec Chris Harrison named CEO of the Digital Media Association The Digital Media Association (DiMA) lobbies on behalf of companies including Google, Amazon, Apple, Pandora and Spotify
News Music Business Jobs: The most effective jobs board in the global music industry Read why everyone from BMG to Glassnote, Kobalt and Concord regularly use our service
News Laura Mvula and Michael Kiwanuka make Ivors shortlist The list spans pop, soul, R&B, rock and electronic genres